And besides, pure silliness will always be in fashion: Slapping someone with a fish was funny then, and it’s funny now. Below, EW celebrates 50 years of Monty Python by rounding up 20 of the ...

The British funnyman paid a visit to Ottawa, to slap a fish. British comedian-actor Michael Palin, one of the stars from Monty Python fame, was in Ottawa to receive a geography medal.

Of all the things we hand down to our children, our sense of humor is the one thing that will never lose its value, particularly if it’s coiled around them like a Monty Python, squeezing out ...

Friends and I re-created Python's famous fish-slapping dance and "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketches the minute we got a break from earth science. If we got a few blank looks, we didn't notice.

“Our fishermen have to perform the Monty Python fish-slapping dance in the Government’s face before the Government do anything. “So they’ve announced, by press release, the £23 million.

The tension dissipated when he was recognized, and the armed men asked him for photos and autographs. British actor and comedian Michael Palin, a member of the legendary Monty Python group, was ...

It's Monty Python's Spamalot. Monty Python is a British comedy troupe famous for its sketch comedy and surreal humor. Spamalot is adapted from the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's ...

Eric Seale, left, playing Dromio, is fish-slapped by Alex Maddox, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in the SummerFest production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The fish-slap is a Monty Python ...

Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- as it was called at the beginning -- first forged its reputation for comedic innovation from 1969 to 1974 in 45 programs on British television.

In four seasons, totaling 45 episodes, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” gave American audiences their share of favorite moments and recurring catch phrases, such as “wink, wink, nudge, nudge ...

2. A reunion of Monty Python’s Flying Circus any time soon. 3. To be able to watch “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on a couch in your underpants. Broadway still discourages attire that casual ...