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“I think all the Pythons are nuts in some way,” Eric Idle once wrote, “and together we make one completely insane person.” That insane entity, the comedy supergroup Monty Python, convened in 1969, ...

Kenneth Colley, the British actor who played Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars series and Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, died June 30 at his home in Kent, England, after contracting ...

If you’re a fan of Monty Python and their classic The Life of Brian, it’ll probably come as no surprise that the comedy, about a reluctant messiah named Brian, was controversial. The controversy ...