"Spamalot" creator Eric Idle discusses the Broadway revival's fresh approach and universal appeal as the national tour launches in Cleveland ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor? “I think the answer must be yes, because ...

What the Monty Python musical succeeds most at in this revival, playing at The Bushnell through Dec. 14, is in parodying traditional Broadway musicals.

Writers (L-R) Ian MacNaughton, Michael Palin, unknown, Graham Chapman, and Neil Innes in a script conference for BBC television show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, 1974. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio ...

Recently, there has been more drama in the Kennedy Center’s offices than in its performance spaces. That was certainly the ...

When John Cleese and his Monty Python comedy cohorts premiered “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975, they had no expectations that anyone would be talking about it 50 years later. “We really ...

Sir Michael Palin has said that seeing his fellow Monty Python stars can be a “rather tearful” experience. The actor, comedian and travel presenter, 80, last performed shows in 2014 alongside some of ...

Farewell, Terry Jones — in Monty Python’s box of chocolates, he was always the crunchy frog. This man was a comic genius, the soul of Python — their most unselfish performer, their most wide-ranging ...

An English newspaper once described a soccer star as having “developed splendidly and then aged as well as could be hoped for.” That might sum up another U.K. icon, Monty Python. Because while it’s ...