Film critic Chris Knight examines Monty Python's Life of Brian, which is getting a 40th-anniversary cinematic re-release You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...

After the huge success of 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, England's silliest comedy troupe needed a follow-up. Naturally, they chose another period piece, this one requiring even more ...

Particularly in Britain, Monty Python’s Life of Brian is treasured, regularly winning polls such as Total Film magazine’s 2000 surgery that deemed it the funniest film of all time. It wasn’t always so ...

Michael Palin has said that Monty Python’s religious satire film Life of Brian wouldn’t get made today because he believes comedy is being watered down. Palin, 82, who co-founded the comedy troupe ...

As ridiculous as it seems today, conviction and imprisonment for blasphemy in 1979 was a real risk to those facing the charges You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you ...

Over the past 50 years, legendary actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer John Cleese has been garnering laughs on stage and on screen in classics like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fawlty ...

In the long-running annual series Oh, The Humanities! National Post reporters survey academic scholarship at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with an eye to the curious, the ...