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 ...

20 Argument Clinic (Monty Python’s Flying Circus DVD 9, Episode 29) A troupe hallmark and a paraphrasing of what Python fans are thinking now. ”That’s not one of the top 20.” ”Yes, it is.” ”No, it isn ...

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, ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

From the ground-breaking sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the whole Monty Python gang, to the Monty Python films, and onto the Broadway stage with ...