The surviving members of the legendary Monty Python comedy group gathered Thursday night in New York to attend the opening of the documentary, Monty Python Almost The Truth (The Lawyers' Cut). Forty ...

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To the editor: Regarding the etymology of "spam": Anyone who has been in the business for a long time knows that "spam" as applied to unwanted bulk e-mail comes from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A spokesperson shared, "The Python SPAM Club will bring trademark Monty Python ...

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 Monty Python merry musical “Spamalot” encamps at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts starting Tuesday and stays through April 7. Knights, kings, taunting Frenchmen and killer rabbits always ...

According to Monty Python, there's never too much (more on that in a moment). But according to Austin, Minn.-based meat processor Hormel Foods Corp., anybody else's product called Spam is too much.

I quickly told him there was a rule against asking for autographs during press events. “Is there?” he asked with a conspiratorial smile, continuing to sign the book and impishly handing it back to me.

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 ...