Terry Jones, from somewhere in the back: “You don’t look dead to me.” I got better. But, honestly, what is left for a writer to say about “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the seminal comedy that ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

Seldom does an act of haphazard comic rebellion infiltrate popular culture. But when it happens, other things happen, too. People start quoting it before they get home. Before you know it, the movie ...

In 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail transformed the titular British sketch troupe from TV comedy icons to genuine movie stars. The film hit the ground running with its instantly quotable opening ...

When John Cleese and his Monty Python comedy cohorts premiered “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975, they had no expectations that anyone would be talking about it 50 years later. “We really ...

After a week of shooting “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1974 the results were clear. Graham Chapman, who starred as King Arthur because nobody else wanted to play the straight man, “said what a ...

This essay killed me. Terry Jones, from somewhere in the back: “You don’t look dead to me.” I got better. But, honestly, what is left for a writer to say about “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the ...