What Happened to Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered one of the greatest comedies ever made, but shooting the film was a nightmare.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered one of the greatest comedies ever made, but shooting the film was a nightmare.
Last week, a distressing spat erupted on X (formerly Twitter). Distressing, that is, for those of us with a fondness for classic British comedy.
Monty Python Co-founder Eric Idle claims he's broke, and reveal rifts between the troupe's surviving members including John Cleese and Terry Gilliam.
Comic geniuses, the lot of them. Few people could disagree that the six stars of Monty Python, the troupe behind TV's most surreal sketch show, were all individually brilliant.
Eric Idle says he hasn't made money from the Python franchise since his Broadway musical Spamalot premiered 20 years ago.