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Monty Python

April 2024

  • Michael Palin in London on 28/3/24

    The G2 interview
    Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘I’d love Helen to still be here, telling me off’

    At 80, the comedian, author and presenter is off on his travels again - this time to Nigeria. He discusses grief, comedy and confrontation

March 2024

  • chris turner

    The funniest things on the internet
    Chris Turner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    The British musical comedian shares the comedy songs he grew up listening to, including Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Monty Python and Spike Milligan

February 2024

  • Eric Idle at awards gig

    Monty Python star Eric Idle: ‘I’m still working at 80 for financial reasons’

    Creator of Spamalot says he sold home last year and that comedy troupe he co-founded in 1969 ‘is a disaster’

January 2024

May 2023

  • Michael Palin and his Helen Gibbins

    ‘The bedrock of my life’: Michael Palin announces the death of his wife Helen

    Monty Python star said his ‘dearest wife’ died ‘peacefully’ a month after the pair celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary

March 2023

  • Terry Jones Film: Monty Python'S The Meaning Of Life (UK 1983) Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones 31 March 1983 CTM43674 Allstar Picture Library/UNIVERSAL PICTURES **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNIVERSAL PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNIVERSAL PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): , MR. CREOSOTE

    Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life at 40: timeless sketch comedy brilliance

    The troupe’s last feature as a six-person act is a smart and still relevant collection of satire and silliness

October 2022

  • Eric Idle: ‘We’re old farts. We should be left to go quietly to bed and watch the telly.’

    The G2 interview
    ‘I didn’t cry until I knew I was going to live’: Monty Python’s Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer

    Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams – and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life

September 2022

  • So alarming that BBC managers contacted The War Office … The War Game.

    100 years of the BBC: decade by decade
    JFK derails Doctor Who, plus the drama that was too terrifying to show: 100 years of the BBC, part five

    The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

August 2022

  • Martha Gill

    It’s not that people are more sensitive these days. Some things just aren’t funny any more

    Martha Gill
    Python star Terry Gilliam says today’s students can’t handle the truth. That’s an ex-debate

June 2022

  • The eight-year-old Sarah Polley in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

    Sarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’

    As a child, the Canadian actor-director starred in the former Python’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Here she recalls how she feared for her life on his chaotic film set

April 2022

  • Boris Johnson

    Brief letters
    The prime minister merely echoes the empty threats of King Lear

    Brief letters: ‘Terrors of the earth’ | Oxford Union debating skills | Half Man Half Biscuit | Expecting the Spanish Inquisition

September 2021

  • Michael Palin

    Tantrum of the opera: how Michael Palin’s angry dad inspired new show

    The Monty Python star has reinvented his play The Weekend as musical theatre

August 2021

  • Eric Morecambe (left) and Ernie Wise

    Morecambe and Wise found Monty Python ‘boring’ and ‘irritating’

  • Teenage Kicks 210820 Michael Smiley

    Teenage kicks
    Michael Smiley’s teenage obsessions: ‘I heard the Beat and came back to Belfast a rude boy’

September 2020

  • Suzanne Vega … ‘I’ve started dancing at my shows, but yet to go full disco.’

    Teenage kicks
    Suzanne Vega's teenage obsessions: 'Taxi Driver captured something awful but made it beautiful'

    In the first of a weekly series where film and music stars discuss their youthful fixations, the US singer recalls silly walks and Saturday Night Fever dance classes

August 2020

  • No evidence of humility … John Cleese.

    Lockdown culture
    John Cleese: Why There Is No Hope review – we're all idiots, says Mr Gloomy

    In a global livestream, the former Python delivers alimony gags, a bit of PC-baiting – and an amusingly grumpy lecture on how nobody knows anything

June 2020

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    My favourite film aged 12
    My favourite film aged 12: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python’s chivalric sketch show served up epic amounts of daftness – and any adult reservations about it prove mere flesh wounds

February 2020

  • Terry Jones death<br>File photo dated 16/10/12 of Terry Jones, as John Cleese, Sir Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam have said farewell to their fellow Python at the comedy giant's funeral. PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday February 5, 2020. The actor and comedian, who also directed some of the comedy troupe's most-loved works, died last month, at the age of 77. A private, humanist ceremony was held at Golders Green Crematorium West Chapel, in London, to pay tribute to a "bold, brilliant and beautiful man", followed by a small wake in a Highgate pub. See PA story FUNERAL Jones. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    Terry Jones remembered at the Oscars ceremony

  • Kirk Douglas, who died last week.

    Brief letters
    Kirk Douglas – not the last of the greats

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