John Cleese brought Monty Python and the Holy Grail back to Toronto, sharing stories about the coconuts, writing comedy and ...

Mackenzie Crook's six-part BBC comedy reaches Apple TV with Pearce Quigley as a DIY-store worker who tries to grow ...

The English film archivist group “Film is Fabulous” recently discovered a copy of the sketch on a 16mm reel of comedy clips ...

Eric Idle, a founding member of Monty Python, bought a shack in France in 1971. Decades later, the shack is a "shackeau," he says. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Idle about his book "Idle in Provence." ...

“The British are coming,” trumpeted Chariots Of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, ...

Television sketch comedy never goes out of style and plenty of alums of shows — from Key & Peele to Mr. Show to generations of Saturday Night Live favorites — have graduated to celebrated careers.

From the runaway rat in Fawlty Towers to Monty Python’s cheese shop, John Cleese has clocked up 50 years of sublime silliness. As his new comedy Bang Bang hits the stage, he talks about fear, Feydeau ...

Last year, when we were putting together “The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy,” our goal was to present a list of jokes that captured the entirety of capital-C comedy. While we feel like we ...

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