This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

All four series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is returning to free-to-air TV screens after almost 35 years. Vintage TV channel That’s TV has bought the rights to all four series of the ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

He was a joyful actor who played both the argumentative mother of the man who was not Jesus Christ, and an obscenely obese man who explodes after eating just a little too much. British writer, ...

TV host David Frost almost scuppered the iconic and ground-breaking comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus before it started by refusing to release John Cleese from his contract to take part. A memo just ...