EVERYBODY KNOWS Monty Python’s “cheese shop” sketch—everybody who is over 50 and a comedy nerd, that is. The shopkeeper, played by Michael Palin, asks a customer, played by John Cleese, what cheese he ...

John Cleese likes to laugh at death. Literally. “I make a lot of jokes about death,” the famed British comedian said in a phone interview with PennLive. “People think, ‘Isn’t that a bit morbid?’ No!

"'Gorgonzola?' 'No.' 'Parmesan?' 'No.' 'Mozzarella?' 'No.' 'Pipo Creme?' 'No.' 'Any Danish Fimboe?' 'No.' 'Venezuelan beaver cheese?' 'Not today, sir, no.'" That is from the infamous Monty Python ...

Spam is a dish best served comically, and no one cooked it up better than the Brit wits of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” in what was arguably the most famous sketch of the outrageous series that was ...