While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

There’s a special kind of laughter that comes from those who have inherited rubble — a laughter that doesn’t deny history but strips it of its borrowed grandeur. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” ...