Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) was my first introduction to the Arthurian legend. I remember watching it after its cable premiere on HBO and laughing hysterically at the lowbrow humor that a ...

While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...