Monty Python
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Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
- Film
- October 10, 2020, 06:00
Savour canny acquisitions and ambitious original productions. And catch the classics while you can. They may not be there next month. There h(...)

Sweet Art Deal – Frank McNally on a surprising Irish contribution to the history of art
- Opinion
- September 16, 2020, 19:20
It had somehow escaped me until he died recently that one of the most influential people in the so-called Britart movement was a Dubliner and the son (...)

Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
- Film
- August 13, 2020, 06:00
He’s a master of slapstick, a surrealist clown, the don of comic film roles from Roxanne to The Jerk. As he turns 75, comics including Sarah Silverman(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: Ireland has its attitude to travel back to front
- Opinion
- August 1, 2020, 01:00
Let me see if I’ve got this right. Someone – because it’s all so Monty Pythonesque, let’s call her Judith – who is on the pandemic unemployment paymen(...)

John Cleese has a faulty sense of humour about the Irish
- Culture
- July 2, 2020, 13:00
Near the top of the list of people who should never have been let near Twitter stands John Cleese. Before social media he was regarded, in I(...)

Play It Again, Dom – Frank McNally on the strange echoes of a Planxty classic in Britain’s latest scandal
- Opinion
- May 26, 2020
I cannot be the only one – surely? – who, mid-way through Dominic Cummings’s live press conference on Monday, started humming an old Planxty ballad ab(...)

A generation is about to have the door closed in its face
- Culture
- May 23, 2020, 05:00
“Come fly with me. If you can use some exotic booze there’s a bar in far Bombay. Come on fly with me…” Yeah, hold your whisht, Sinatra. Even the most(...)

What have the British ever done for us, eh?
- Construction
- January 31, 2020, 04:47
As the European Union waves goodbye to Britain when it exits the bloc on Friday night, let us reflect on what the concept of Britishness means on this(...)

A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 25, 2020, 06:00
As he surveys the papers at the start of his show, Ryan Tubridy has some good news for those already suffering from election fatigue. “Obviously it’s (...)

Terry Jones was the John Lennon of comedy
- Film
- January 22, 2020
What The Beatles were to British music, Monty Python were to British comedy and it is no great stretch to view founding member Terry Jones, who has di(...)