Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released 50 years ago and became a cult classic that inspires comedy to this day. Here's what fans told NPR the film means to them.

There’s no more appropriate reason to put Monty Python and the Holy Grail back in theaters than the celebration of a comically off-year anniversary. That is exactly what’ll happen this ...

Back in the 1970s, the British comedy troupe Monty Python would often dryly announce, “and now for something completely different.” Well, not much is different about the revival of “Monty Py ...

“I still love and am proud of what we did as Python. It was a very unique group. I think of us as an ex-Liverpool team. We played together well. Way back in the day. The “Monty Python ...

"We turned it into a positive." "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" celebrates its 50th anniversary on Monday, April 28. The movie will be back in theaters for special anniversary screenings on ...

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 ... around a cart topped with ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The movie was created on a shoestring budget by British comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese ...

A revival of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” will begin previews ... “I’m thrilled to see Spamalot back on Broadway,” the show’s writer Eric Idle said in Wednesday’s announcement.

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 ...

And “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” has turned 50 ... We revisit our favorite comedies at our peril, I think, especially if they go back a half-century. Nobody can nor should expect to ...