In May the 73-year-old, pictured left, ruffled feathers among his old comedy colleagues after admitting he found the idea of them re-forming “depressing”, adding that they had “sold out”. It is what ...

The Monty Python team were not "unpleasant shifty people" trying to do people out of their just deserts, the High Court has heard. Three Pythons - Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin - sat ...

Todd Owyoung—NBC/Getty Images If the team behind the Monty Python franchise had a dollar for every time a college student quoted their work, they’d probably be financially set for generations. But ...

Michael Palin, Eric Idle and Terry Jones of Monty Python pose together ahead of a legal case at the High Court in a dispute over the hit musical Spamalot on November 30 (Getty Images) The Monty Python ...

Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, and John Cleese changed the face of comedy with Monty Python, which made them all megastars in the 1980s. (Alamy) Monty Python are ...