'Monty Python's Flying Circus' was almost canceled after one episode, but went on to become one of television's most influential comedy series.

Rare photographs of Monty Python’s Flying Circus have been released on the day of the show’s 50 th anniversary. The programme, which first aired on October 5 1969, was a surreal sketch series ...

People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, for its absurd, anarchic sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying ...

Cleese will talk and take questions following a screening of the Monty Python comedy troupe’s 1975 film debut.

Three decades ago, a corporate miscue changed comedic history. It put episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" into the eccentric hands of the guys who created it. Now all of those episodes are ...

The outfits will be displayed in Ottawa after the Royal Canadian Geographical Society successfully bid for them at auction in ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released 50 years ago and became a cult classic that inspires comedy to this day. Here's what fans told NPR the film means to them.

Then, a voice-over announced, ” Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Absurd title animation unspooled. The rousing marching-band overture of ”The Liberty Bell” kicked in.