You probably won't be shocked to learn that the showrunners of Game of Thrones are big Monty Python geeks, but the Holy Grail easter egg they slipped into a scene earlier this season might surprise you. Unless you speak Low Valyrian, anyway.
After years of "secret talks" and fizzled rumors, Monty Python is finally, officially reuniting — for real, this time.
[French President Nicolas Sarkozy reminds us of one of the taunting Gauls from that Monty Python sketch when getting all up in President Obama's grill at the White House today. Like Barack doesn't have enough going on. Image via Getty]
From Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, a brief foray into the meaning of life, hats and distractions.
You may think that Hitler shot himself in 1945, but Monty Python begs to differ. Watch as Mr. "Hilter" plans a "hike" not in Stalingrad.
If you enjoy Sketch Comedy, you have these fine English gentlemen (and one Yankee) to thank. Monty Python's Flying Circus paved the way for any type of sketch comedy that embraces absurdity and pushes boundaries.
Nerve and IFC collected history's top 50 comedy sketches in one mega-article full of YouTube and Quicktime clips. This is the ultimate Internet list, ever. (That sentence doesn't even make sense but it is true.) Below are my ten favorites from the list, if you only want to waste an hour and not your entire day.
Well, you have to hand it to the Crystal Leth, at least he's bringing something better than plot summary to the increasingly torpid Times Book Review. Lethem has the cover review, of Ian McEwan's novel(la) On Chesil Beach, in this week's Summer Reading issue, and he dives into close reading—yes, close reading—with…
PAUL BOUTIN — Hey, Mister Marketing Whiz: The office techies don't get your Seinfeld references. They didn't see that Bud Light ad with that one guy. If you seek the Holy Grail of nerdery, toss your copy of The Da Vinci Code and watch some Monty Python instead. No need to sit through all 46 episodes — after the jump,…
