Historian Mary Beard has revealed that some of the UK's favourite jokes, including the Monty Python 'dead parrot' sketch, come from Roman joke book Philogelos, translated as 'laughter lover'.

Jim Bowen has taken to the London stage with a 1,600-year-old Greek joke that may be an ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch.

Never-before-heard Monty Python jokes are to be broadcast for the first time as the comedy troupe celebrate their 50th anniversary. Michael Palin has produced five new programmes for BBC Radio 4 ...

A new book delves into the history of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Search. ... we were and how we changed civilization," Monty Python's Terry Gilliam jokes to Esquire about the new book, ...

Jokes could produce community out of discord, but Freud also saw the possibility of the reverse. Monty Python’s continuing popularity raises important questions not for the history but the ...

In an excerpt from his new book Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography, Monty Python’s Eric Idle looks back on how the song the memoir is named after evolved over the years and ...

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