English Heritage has turned down a request to erect a blue plaque to celebrate the life and work of the former Python.

British Class Society and the Smug Humor of the Highly EducatedMonty Python is funny. I acknowledge this. 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' was a work that changed the history of television comedy, and ...

Monty Python's Flying Circus hit the BBC on October 5, 1969. Some things just refuse to go away, like my ex… Wait, wrong type ...

Eric Idle shared the story of singing a Monty Python song while dressed in a tutu for an audience that included Queen ...

Some six decades on from the boundary-breaking, side-splittingly funny debut of anarchic comedy series Monty Python’s Flying ...

TV presenter Monty Don may be best known for his green fingers and his years on Gardeners' World, but there is much more to his life away from the cameras. The 71-year-old recently revealed that he ...

A young night parrot, one of Australia's most cryptic birds, has been filmed in a spinifex tunnel in remote WA. The daytime footage captures the elation of a ranger team as they make the rare ...

Individual performances shine and new elements add laughs – but other additions are tacky in the extreme One of my favourite lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail occurs immediately after the ...

The Monty Python star bought a shack in Provence in 1972. Here's how he spent the next 55 years making it his refuge from fame – and how it somehow became a celebrity retreat. Eric Idle is enjoying a ...

Kakapo are critically endangered, but they're starting to make a comeback. Chris Birmingham / New Zealand Department of Conservation via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 A record 90 chicks have been added to ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Michael Palin has described the recent behaviour of John Cleese, his longtime ...