We might never know the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, but 41 years after the British debut of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” we do know that the men of British comedy troupe are masters ...

Terry Jones, from somewhere in the back: “You don’t look dead to me.” I got better. But, honestly, what is left for a writer to say about “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the seminal comedy that ...