Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is Britain’s favorite song to play at funerals. Those folks may not have the best teeth, but they’re pretty funny sometimes. The song, sung by ...

Who gets the last laugh? The British, it seems, after a study out Friday revealed that Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is the most-played song at funerals in the United Kingdom ...

After almost 50 years together, Monty Python bid farewell in appropriate fashion: with a sing-along of their decidedly tongue-in-cheek song, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.” The song, which ...

From the ground-breaking sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the whole Monty Python gang, to the Monty Python films, and onto the Broadway stage with ...

Professor Stephen Hawking has covered Monty Python's famous Galaxy Song on a recording released this week on digital download and video. A vinyl version of the song, originally from the 1983 movie ...

Has life gotten you down? Do things seem hard or tough? We might have just the antidote: Stephen Hawking covering Monty Python's "Galaxy Song." The famous physicist and pop icon has lent his ...

English actor and comedian Eric Idle on Friday threatened to sue the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) for using a Monty Python song in a political attack ad released Tuesday. Idle, a ...

While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...

Eric Idle has weighed in on the topic of cancel culture, and seems to be much less fussed about it than his Monty Python co-star John Cleese. The 82-year-old comedian and songwriter talked on BBC ...

Eric Idle has dropped one of Monty Python's most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour, admitting that some of the group's humor no longer sits comfortably in 2025, RadarOnline.com can ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

Jones, who died Jan. 21, co-founded the British comedy troupe in 1969, and went on to direct and co-star in the 1979 Python film Life of Brian. Originally broadcast in 1987. This is FRESH AIR. We're ...