EVERY year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health.The one ...

Each period has defining comedies that are emblematic of culture as a whole, celebrated in their inherent qualities as the funniest movies around. The past fifty years, especially, have been a wildly ...

Veteran film-maker Julian Doyle claims that new evidence, supported by AI, shows that Jesus did not die by crucifixion.

JOHN Cleese is talking about the runaway success of Fawlty Towers - The Play, having had two sold out West End seasons and a 10 month UK tour ...

It would be the perfect setting for one of Monty Python’s more surreal sketches. An inquiry hears the most horrific attacks and horrendous crimes committed by a specific group, only for members of ...

Ex-Monty Python star John Cleese has insisted criticism of Islam is "not racist" and he claims phobias are "for spiders", ...

Roger Lewis gets a behind the scenes look in to the inner working of the infamous Cambridge Footlights. New book recounts the drama club's history and alumni.

As he demonstrated so spectacularly with Monty Python’s Life of Brian, John Cleese has never suffered from a fear of offending religious sensibilities. None the less, some people do tend to take ...

When you think of the finest British sitcoms over the years, there’s every chance that Fawlty Towers comes out either top or ...

However, in a surprising development, the Fawlty Towers has extended an olive branch of sorts with a compliment to Idle. Writing on X, Cleese started by speaking about his fellow Python alum Palin’s ...

Elvis Presley loved going to the movies, and one of his favorites was an absurd comedy classic that subverted the fantasy genre.