Do yourselves a favor and give Monty Python and the Holy Grail a watch (or rewatch), but first be sure to catch Sweeney in Reality Bites at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, February 6, on Hallmark Mystery.

The set of 10 stamps celebrates beloved sketches from Monty Python’s Flying Circus series, as well as marks the 50th ...

Comedian John Cleese has suggested the reason Monty Python’s Flying Circus is no longer regularly shown on TV is because it’s “too funny” compared to modern comedies.

Terry Jones has confessed that he ‘only occasionally found Python funny’. Jones, 69, added: ‘I used to watch in trepidation at things that didn’t work wondering if no one would laugh.’ ...

Monty Python was always an act that worked with known material, building the sketches from established memories and stereotypes. It took popular caricatures and distorted them.

British comedy troupe Monty Python, (L-R) Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese pose for a photograph during a media event in central London on November 21, 2013.

Comedian John Cleese has suggested the reason Monty Python’s Flying Circus is no longer regularly shown on TV is because it’s “too funny” compared to modern comedies. During an interview on BBC Radio ...