Terry Jones, from somewhere in the back: “You don’t look dead to me.” I got better. But, honestly, what is left for a writer to say about “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the seminal comedy that ...
Fifty years ago, six mostly-British humorists fresh from injecting dead parrots and Spam into sketch comedy launched their first attempt at movie-making, jumping into cinema with a budget so low they ...
Some 40 years ago, comedy got something completely different from both ends of the Atlantic, turning 1975 into a landmark year for laughter. On TV, "Saturday Night Live," upended after-hours ...