Their fortunes became inextricably linked after a memorable sketch on their BBC program "Monty Python's Flying Circus." That show is celebrating its 50th anniversary tomorrow, and NPR's Phil ...

The 1960s satire boom opened up the way for a fresh, inventive generation of young comedy writer-performers to flourish on TV and to take comedy in a new and exciting direction.

Thirty years ago this week, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences — at least in England, where the show originated. (It didn’t hit these shores ...

If you seek supremely silly sketch comedy, then binge-watch the BBC’s wonderfully wacky “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” This is British comedy so bizarre and bodacious it will make you spill ...

However, the BBC were successful in seeing off 30-year-old Frost and the first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus premiered on October 5, 1969 on BBC1.. Took’s memo has just been released ...

A famous character from the movie, the Killer Rabbit, had an actual real-life prototype. Cleese encountered him when he was 5. If wishes were horses, the knights of "Monty Python and the Holy ...

Formed in 1969, members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin rose to prominence with their sketch comedy TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

The first episode of seminal comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, subtitled 'Whither Canada?', was broadcast just before 11pm on Sunday 5 October 1969. The Radio Times celebrated the launch ...