It took the bedraggled castaway 52 seconds to wade out of the sea, collapse on the sand, crawl towards the camera and say: “It’s…” before the opening credits rolled. So began the iconoclastic ...

All of the Pythons are crazy, but Terry Gilliam is just out of this world. Some of the stuff he's come up with in his Monty Python animation (let alone in his films) is impossibly bizarre. If you're a ...

It’s been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

If you spy this DVD on a store shelf, I'm sure you'll wonder the same thing I did: how can Graham Chapman pick his "personal best" when, well, he's dead. Turns out his Python buddies have stepped in ...

You know, rarely has there been a closer relationship between a comedy troupe and a chopped and formed meat product than Monty Python and Spam. Their fortunes became inextricably linked after a ...

All of the Pythons are crazy, but Terry Gilliam is just out of this world. Some of the stuff he's come up with in his Monty Python animation (let alone in his films) is impossibly bizarre. If you're a ...

Python Bytes serves up nearly two dozen sketches from the first season of the show, plus a few fun extras. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts ...

Two of the show’s highlight are the Act II opening song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” which was borrowed from ...

The main feature is structured as if John Cleese were being interviewed in the backyard of his lush California estate. We see an elderly, wheelchair-bound Cleese answer questions, but not without ...

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