Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter On 5 October 1969, the BBC began broadcasting a new comedy sketch series. It was surreal, yes, but then Spike Milligan's recent TV ...

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Radio documentary BBC Radio 2 2009 2 episodes (1 series) In the days before video recorders were commonplace, fans could only enjoy the aural side of Python on repeat. Sketches like Dead Parrot, Nudge ...

The coalition is like a "Monty Python government" because of its "nudge nudge" energy policies, LibDem energy secretary Ed Davey has said. Davey made the Monty Python reference as he spoke about how ...

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A set of 10 stamps from Royal Mail will pay tribute to "one of Britain's most influential and enduring comedy troupes" – Monty Python. The main collection of six stamps celebrates characters from ...

Today sees the re-issue of the 1989 Monty Python album Monty Python Sings as a special edition called Monty Python Sings (Again). Coinciding with the launch of a jumbo box-set of all nine UK albums – ...

Picturehouse Cinemas, owners of The Ritzy in Brixton, has been subject to a vociferous campaign against its refusal to pay staff the Living Wage (Corbis) Cinemagoers attending a screening at one of ...

Monty Python have transcended comedy. This is not a gig, but an EVENT! A show that forever screams how much you are watching Something Special, full of the sort of big production numbers that ...

Monty Python have transcended comedy. This is not a gig, but an EVENT! A show that forever screams how much you are watching Something Special, full of the sort of big production numbers that ...