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 ...

Eric Idle, a founding member of the comedy group “Monty Python’s Flying Circus, has long had a mission to make us laugh. He ...

Eric Idle, a founding member of the comedy group “Monty Python’s Flying Circus, has long had a mission to make us laugh.

It’s about laughing at yourself and your own death and your inevitable end, which you can do nothing about,’ Eric Idle muses ...

Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: A New, Complete Guide to ‘Monty Python’s […]There’s guides to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and then there’s more specific and complete guides to Monty Python’s Flying ...

It’s been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

It took the bedraggled castaway 52 seconds to wade out of the sea, collapse on the sand, crawl towards the camera and say: “It’s…” before the opening credits rolled. So began the iconoclastic ...

Terry Gilliam's Personal Best selected, written and performed by Terry Gilliam. Produced by John Goldstone. Monty Python's Flying Circus conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese ...

It's been 50 years since "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" first aired and yet fans can still quote from iconic sketches such as the "Ministry of Silly Walks," "Dead Parrot" or "The Spanish Inquisition." ...

You know, rarely has there been a closer relationship between a comedy troupe and a chopped and formed meat product than Monty Python and Spam. Their fortunes became inextricably linked after a ...