title card for the monty python film life of brian

Monty Python’s Life Of Brian

Film Spin Offs
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - 1979 In Tribute To Terry Jones 1942 - 2020 Perhaps the best remembered and best loved of the Python movies.  Life Of Brian was hugely controversial, but hysterically funny.T...

Yellowbeard

General Film
Thirty Years Ago Today Monty Python Star Graham Chapman Died Yellowbeard, 1983 Celebrating 50 years of Monty Python and commemorating 30 years since the death of Graham Chapman we look back at a Graham Chapma...

Rutland Weekend Television

1970's BBC Comedy
Rutland Weekend Television, 1975 Rutland Weekend Television was a BBC sketch show created by Eric Idle, it was his first TV project following the end of Monty Python's Flying Circus the previous year.The s...
comedy heavyweights Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane star in Nuns On The Run

Two Comedy Greats Go On The Run…..

General Film
Nuns On The Run, 1990 This British Comedy classic starred two comedy heavyweights: Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane.  It was produced by ex Beatle George Harrison's Handmade Films.The film has received mixed ...
the surviving five pythons re-unite for a series of live shows entitled Monty Python Live (mostly)

Was This The Least Expected Comeback?

Digital Comedy
Monty Python Live (Mostly) 2014 Monty Python Live in 2014.  Perhaps the least expected come back of all time, but almost certainly one of the most popular.The story behind the reunion began in 2013, when t...

Monty Python’s Spamalot

Stage Adaptations
Spamalot - 2004 The Pythons are back ! Well, sort of.  Spamalot is the award winning musical comedy, adapted ('lovingly ripped off from") the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by former Python Eric Id...
cinema promotional poster for monty python and the holy grail

Monty Python and The Holy Grail – 1975

Film Spin Offs
The second of Monty Python’s films, released in 1975 and the first to feature completely original material.  Generally it’s a spoof of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail.  Eric Idle would later use the ...