"In the spirit of Monty Python's humor, based on an actual gait analysis, a Dartmouth research team finds that the minister's silly walk is 6.7 times more variable than a normal walk," the college ...

Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ, a ...

As it turns out, silly walking required 2.5 times as much energy as normal walking, and could qualify as a "vigorous exercise," as Gaesser told the Post. He added that it could improve health and ...

I’m hoping they get involved.” The Ministry of Silly Walks is a sketch from Monty Python’s television show the Flying Circus and featured in the first episode of the second season.

Doing the “Silly Walk” from the British TV show “Monty Python's Flying Circus” could be much better for you cardiovascular-wise and calorie-burning-wise than simply walking normally.

John Cleese's famously silly walk from a 1970 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. BBC Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Butler and Dominy found that the Minister's silly walk is much more variable than a normal human walk—6.7 times as much—while Mr. Putey's walk-in-progress is only 3.3 times more variable.

For anyone unfamiliar with Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, it’s described by The Times as “a satire on bureaucratic inefficiency” and features John Cleese as civil servant Mr. Teabag.

A big chunk of Monty Python's catalog is coming to Netflix UK in April and the US later in the year. The slate includes the iconic films Monty Python & the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life of ...