Terry Jones

In a memo sent in 1969, the BBC head of comedy seems to have lost his sense of humour. “Please will you have a word with the writers?” said Michael Mi(...)

They return – it would appear – to a time where no one is the messiah but there is no shortage of naughty boys. Fifty years after the first broadcast(...)

MICHAEL PALIN Actor, writer We were on a publicity tour in Amsterdam for Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Eric Idle came up with the title Jesus (...)

Unseen sketches from Monty Python have been discovered in the archives of Michael Palin. The comedy group - containing Palin, Graham Chapman, John C(...)

Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot has been voted the best comedy of all time in a poll for BBC Culture. Some 253 critics from around the world – includi(...)

We know a great deal more about Geoffrey Chaucer than we do about any other early writer in English, because he was a civil servant who played an a(...)

The Fifty Shades juggernaut rolled into town recently amid a storm of white-hot hype, only to be met with stinging criticism. Chief among the gripe(...)

The remaining members of Monty Python have announced four more shows after their reunion at London’s O2 sold out in less than a minute.The veteran com(...)

And now for something completely predictable: Monty Python said this week that they are re-forming for a show at the O2 in London, with a tour likely (...)

Comedy veterans Monty Python are set to reunite for a stage show.Surviving members John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Pali(...)