Thursday night's game really should have been re-titled "Monty Python Tribute" night. Because they're not dead yet. Neither one of them.
Call it one small step for a cheese, one giant leap fromage-kind.
SpaceX's private spacecraft launches at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Toyota Prius is a car that, right from its 1997 launch, came veiled in a frosty penumbra of disbelief, of incredulity. For some of us,anyway. How could we trust anything that was a hybrid?
To mark the 40th anniversary of the "Flying Circus," the surviving Pythons regroup and reminisce.
It's been a Monty Python world lately -- and we're not even talking about the absurdity and silliness of current events, such as balloon boys and confessional celebrities.
It's been a Monty Python world lately -- and we're not even talking about the absurdity and silliness of current events, such as balloon boys and confessional celebrities.
Is there a filmmaker in the world with worse luck than Terry Gilliam? He was directing Heath Ledger in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," when the actor died -- and it's not the first time he has lost a leading man.
Comedy isn't evolutionary. Hollywood has been plundering ancient history for yuks at least since Buster Keaton's day, and there's little in "Year One" to suggest we've progressed much over the last 90 years.
In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into the Bible?
Poor Hormel and its signature canned, processed, porcine-derived product, SPAM. First came Monty Python mockery and now, the dubious honor of becoming a household name for unsolicited junk email.
He's mastered diaper duty and admits it's easy to spoil his 3½-month-old son
The Spamalot star picks the fan's write-up to go in the show's program
The DWTS and Spamalot star will lead the Times Square event
The new dad will reprise his role as Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot
Back in his Monty Python days, Michael Palin triumphed as a violence-prone barber who hates cutting hair and dreams of becoming a lumberjack -- a lumberjack who dresses in women's clothing.
It may be a long leap from Raleigh, N.C., to the kingdom of Camelot – with a memorable stop on American Idol in between – but Clay Aiken is apparently ready to take his seat as Sir Robin at the Round Table. The singer, 29, officially joins the cast of the Tony-winning Monty Python musical Spamalot on Friday, having told Newsweek that he was so sore from the arduous rehearsals to prepare for his Broadway debut that he "couldn't even get off the toilet the other day."
Clay Aiken has found his Holy Grail: Broadway.
Our heart-to-heart with Captain Jack inspired us to set out on our own heroic adventure. Trusty steed? Check. Knight in armor? Check. Damsel in distress? Check. Here's our top 10 favorite quest films -- and the ones which had us rooting for the Dark Side.
SI.com: Hurt so goodupdated: Tue May 08 2007 12:57:00
I got a kick out of Peyton Manning's Mastercard commerical where the guy serving coffee gets knocked over by a blast of steam in the face and Manning urges him to "rub some dirt on it." In this age of pitch counts and other bubblewrap training techniques and long preventative shut-downs, it can be hard to believe that the athlete's credo once resembled the black knight who loses assorted limbs in Monty Python & The Holy Grail and keeps fighting while insisting, "Come on, it's only a flesh wound!"
Bruce Willis did it, with the aid of a large plastic tube and a set of bellows, in "Twelve Monkeys;" Michael J. Fox did it -- three times -- in the "Back to the Future" series; the crew of the Starship Enterprise can't stop doing it (at least 14 times in television episodes alone); while as the "Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger also gave it a go, albeit stark naked.
I'm 26 and I'm a compulsive saver. For the past five years I've saved over 70 percent of my net income, and I don't make that much. I track all my spending and have tried to budget "minimum" monthly spending levels, but I can't seem to meet them. I don't consider myself cheap, just frugal. And all my hobbies - music, games, sports - tend to be low-cost. Do you have any suggestions on how I can spend more money?
One wrote songs about village greens, humble homes with names like "Shangri-La," bickering sisters and night descending on Waterloo Station. Pete Townshend once said he should be poet laureate of England.
Alan Greenspan is expected to join an elite organization of six-figure lecture luminaries after he steps down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, according to a news report Monday.
Jarheads, Talking Heads, and 8 other things we recommend this week:
showbuzzupdated: Fri Nov 11 2005 12:08:00
Most people know him as the Minister for Silly Walks on "Monty Python" or as Q in James Bond films. But John Cleese will also go down in history for another reason: lemurs.
showbuzzupdated: Mon May 23 2005 15:27:00
"Wild On!" is back, and Tara Reid has signed on as host.
showbuzzupdated: Mon May 09 2005 14:36:00
No, says director Mike Nichols, he wasn't trying to create a cultural icon or even a film that would captivate some members of the under-30 generation in 2005 just as powerfully as it had in 1967.
Terry Jones was in the United States to promote two of his books, "Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror" and "Who Murdered Chaucer?"
"Spamalot" hit Broadway on March 17, and in celebration, Entertainment Weekly remembers Monty Python's 20 best sketches.
Eric Idle freely admits, "No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad."
You may remember the old Monty Python skit in which John Cleese, as a coldhearted banker, attempts to figure out the angle when a hapless charity worker asks him to donate a pound to an orphans fun...
If nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, then how about Monty Python's surreal humor brought to a London stage, in French, with English surtitles?
showbuzzupdated: Wed Dec 29 2004 15:48:00
Killer rabbits and a legless knight. Are these the makings of a Broadway musical?
Now would be a good time to stop and take a look at the state of comedy in film.
So "Friends" and "Frasier" are going off the air.
Cut and runupdated: Wed Apr 14 2004 12:40:00
There's an old Monty Python sketch, "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days,' " in which a gathering of 1920s English country swells is interrupted by a man asking, "Tennis, anyone?"
Do you remember Shearson 1990s fund, Montgomery U.S. Focus or E-Trade Global Titans Index? Well, you should: at one time or another, each of these mutual funds was a magazine cover boy. It's less l...
The stench--at least In Wall Street's opinion--from the fast-decaying personal computer industry is so pungent it calls to mind the old Monty Python skit about the pathetically moribund parrot and ...
And now for something completely different. Fans of the 1970s British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus will of course recognize that as a John Cleese catch phrase--although Cleese is know...
Whatever you think of a Spam sandwich, there's a new kind of Spam clogging the Internet that online users are finding hard to stomach. We're talking about electronic junk mail from advertisers, ter...
David Zucker has won acclaim as director of Airplane!, Ruthless People, and Naked Gun. Now he can add For Goodness Sake, a video about how to be Mr. Nice Guy. The 24-minute film, made by Los Angele...
An idea need not make a whole lot of sense to get into Nexis, which explains why our favorite computerized database was able to offer up 34 news stories when we asked to look at any in which ''hous...
College and university officials seeking to diversify their enrollments are unsure how to define ''American Indian'' . . . The issue was spotlighted . . . in the Detroit News, which found that many...
When last we focused on the problems of left-handers (two weeks ago), we were heavily dependent on data supplied by Stanley Coren, professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and ...
Dear Mr. Statistics: I am 68 and used to dozing off any time the national debt comes under discussion. But now the fellows at the tavern tell me interest on the debt is rising more rapidly than fed...
Keeping Up's senior policy analyst was on assignment in Britain during that country's recent titanic election and occasionally made entries in his diary. Like these, for example: -- June 6 (in Edin...
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