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Surviving Monty Python Members to Reunite for Film

Appearances of the Monty Python comedy troupe have been a rarity since Graham Chapman’s death in 1989. However, the troupe has a new project in the works that would reunite all of the five surviving members.  read more

The 11 Best Sketch Comedies of All Time

As the vitality of sketch comedy moves increasingly online thanks to series like Funny or Die and Between Two Ferns, it’s encouraging that television can still surprise us with a show like Portlandia. In honor of its return for a second season on IFC, here our picks for the 10 best sketch comedy shows of all time.  read more

The 20 Best Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketches

And now for something completely different....  read more

Monty Python Members to Voice Graham Chapman Film

The members of comedy troupe Monty Python have come together to voice an animated film based on Graham Chapman’s memoir A Liar’s Autobiography (Volume VI)....  read more

BBC Commissions Film About Life of Brian Controversy

The BBC has commissioned a comedy-drama focusing on the controversy surrounding Monty Python’s Life of Brian....  read more

The 10 Best Film Portrayals of God & The Devil

Actors sometimes are born to play a role, and I'm not sure what it says about the following 10 men and women that their particular role is either of unending love or eternal torment.  read more

Weird Al, Dave Eggers, Conan O'Brien, Many More Performing at SF Sketchfest

If laughter is the best medicine, then the three-week long, star-studded San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival can surely cure anything. The SF Sketchfest has packed its ninth year’s lineup full of comedic heavyweights....  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Terry Gilliam's "Crimson Permanent Assurance"

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Unlike most of the shorts that get covered in this column, Terry Gilliam’s “The Crimson Permanent Assurance” is something fans of the director are likely to have seen before without digging deep into film archives or rooting around youtube in the hopes that someone has uploaded them. It’s easy to find, right in front of nearly every release—both theatrical and home—for Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. ...  read more

The 30 Best Fight Scenes in Movie History

I haven’t been in a fight since 10th grade (unless you count an attempted mugging in Kenya where I fended off some unarmed teenagers with a bag of water bottles), and I’d very much like to keep that streak alive. But at the heart of every good story is a struggle, and some times that struggle gets physical. We devoted a whole issue to exploring violence in the arts last year with philosophical nuance, but this list just celebrates a good fight. Sometimes it’s good vs. evil, sometimes it’s more complicated. We celebrate the underdog, the outnumbered and outsized finding...  read more

Most of Monty Python Reunite For 40th Anniversary Stage Show

Forty years after the debut of Monty Python's Flying Circus rocked British television, the comedy crew is (mostly) reuniting for a musical version of their famous 1979 film, Life of Brian. The stage adaptation, Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy), premiered in Toronto in 2007 and will make a few U.S. stops this summer before the cast appears on stage together in London....  read more