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 ...

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 ...

The 1960s satire boom opened up the way for a fresh, inventive generation of young comedy writer-performers to flourish on TV and to take comedy in a new and exciting direction. Among them were five ...

The British Broadcasting Corp. aired “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” for the first time on this day in 1969. The episode — titled “Whither Canada?” and with a cast including John Cleese, Eric Idle and ...

14:29, Sat, Dec 14, 2024 Updated: 14:33, Sat, Dec 14, 2024 TV host David Frost almost scuppered the iconic and ground-breaking comedy Monty Python’s Flying Circus before it started by refusing to ...

Spam was at the center of a classic Monty Python sketch, and their association with the forcemeat had an even longer shelf life than the product itself. You know, rarely has there been a closer ...