Dust in the wind: 13 on-screen cremation calamities
There’s just no relief for the fictional dead. If it’s not deceased dragons being lifted from their watery graves, then…
A bunch of lost Monty Python sketches have been discovered
In a big win for British comedy nerds, The Times is reporting that multiple boxes from Michael Palin’s private archives…
Meanwhile, John Cleese is doing great on Twitter
Twitter is a fairly unpleasant place to be these days. What was once a scrollable feed of weird jokes and…
Terry Gilliam is being predictably depressing about the BBC's push for diversity in comedy
You know what they say about heroes: They either die early, or live long enough to damn near kill themselves making a …
Netflix picks up the entire Monty Python catalog
Prepare yourself for a new deluge of high-pitched voices and endless, addictive quoting, internet folks, because Monty…
Here’s the story of Theresa May’s failed campaign as told by Monty Python
Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Theresa May lost the general election that she herself called. Both during…
What makes Brian Huskey laugh? Silly walks, real Floridians, Nazi Tim Conway
If you’ve laughed at a movie or a TV program in the past 10 years—particularly if that movie or TV program has any…
Monty Python’s Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia
According to the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts (via Variety), Monty Python member Terry Jones has been…
Daisy Ridley backs away from John Cleese in this Star Wars/Holy Grail mashup
As fans well know by now, the plot of 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens largely revolves around the absence of Jedi…
It’s just a flesh wound, Blackfish: Game Of Thrones’ Monty Python moment
In Polite Fight, we examine the cinematic storytelling of our favorite TV shows, sometimes even fighting over…
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A Monty Python alum offers a cheeky economics lesson in Boom Bust Boom
Anyone who was bothered by the fourth-wall-breaking explanations of the fiscal crisis in The Big Short will want to…
This supercut breaks cinema’s fabled fourth wall hundreds of times
The fourth wall offers very little in the way of structural integrity or privacy to movie characters. Already…
Pie, pancakes, oysters, booze, and a wafer-thin mint—coming right up
Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a…
Don’t hurt them because they’re pricks: 5 times pop culture said hedgehogs deserved it
Much to the chagrin of hedgehog owners everywhere, pop culture has historically been unkind to the animal. From the…
Monty Python And The Holy Grail is coming back to (U.K.) theaters
Finally, people who just couldn’t restrain themselves from shouting out all the catchphrases to Monty Python And The…
The jizz stays in the picture: 25 films and TV episodes about sperm
Hollywood finds sperm hilarious—donating it, stealing it (or both, as in Ted 2, out this week), spraying it,…
Monty Python reunites to turn Simon Pegg into a god in the Absolutely Anything trailer
Ever hear the one about a ordinary person living a mundane life until he’s granted supernatural powers that turn his…
Stephen Hawking covered Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song”
If a tepidly well-received (and Academy Award-winning) biopic in addition to appearances in The Simpsons, Futurama, and …
God’s book on tape: 14 mortal attempts to portray the Almighty
We all know what God looks like: It’s right there in the Bible: “And the mighty, manly white guy with the long beard…
Monty Python’s “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” is now the top funeral song
The ongoing “Monty Python vs. God” debate has taken a new turn as The Independent reports that “Always Look On The…