This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

TV host David Frost almost scuppered the iconic and ground-breaking comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus before it started by refusing to release John Cleese from his contract to take part. A memo just ...

Monty Python’s Flying Circus show set to commence major US tour - ‘It’s about laughing at yourself and your own death and your inevitable end, which you can do nothing about,’ Eric Idle muses ...

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, ...