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, ...

If wishes were horses, the knights of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" would ride. But since the now-classic film, celebrating its 50th birthday on Monday, April 28, was made for horse feed (about ...

Death (John Cleese) makes himself comfortable as he joins for dinner and continuously repeats he is the Grim Reaper.

In 1879, during the Battle of Rorke's Drift, a soldier finds his leg has been bitten off. Suspecting a tiger, the soldiers ...

After the series ended, Palin came up with the idea of doing a medieval film. He and Jones were especially interested in studying the Middle Ages, according to Kim Howard Johnson, author of The First ...