For the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, on BBC 1, Michael Palin has narrated and constructed a series of shws for BBC Radio 4, Monty Python at 50: The Self-Abasement ...

John Cleese gave fresh voice to a familiar grudge on Tuesday, raging at the BBC for not showing repeats of Monty Python. The 83-year-old actor and comedian asked his 5.6M Twitter followers: “Can ...

John Cleese has been given short shrift on social media after he complained about the BBC not running repeats of Monty Python – after apparently forgetting who owned the licensing rights to the ...

Then the PC police came for Monty Python, the famed British comedy troupe. On June 19, the Daily Mail headlined a story: “No Joke: Head of BBC comedy says Oxbridge white blokes of Python wouldn’t get ...

John Cleese says "there's an awful amount of crap" in comedy, Terry Gilliam notes the U.K. public broadcaster is "executive-heavy" and Eric Idle discusses a series of stage shows at London's O2 Arena ...

The BBC is making a movie called Holy Flying Circus about the controversy surrounding the release of Monty Python’s classic Life of Brian. It was called an attack on the church when it was released in ...

BBC fans are “obsessed” with one Shakespeare adaptation released in 2015. Putting a new spin on the playwright William Shakespeare’s life and times, the comedy film Bill is set during his “lost years” ...

BBC Four has ordered a one-off comedy surrounding the controversy arising from the release of Monty Python film Life of Brian. The Thick of It's Tony Roche will pen the 90-minute piece, entitled Holy ...