Police in Derry, N.H., responded to a call about a 5-ft. python that was found in the bathroom of an apartment in the area.

Terry Jones as Mr Creosote in 1983's Monty Python's Meaning of Life. (Alamy) Of course, the purpose of the scene is not to make people run in terror, but fall from their seats laughing.

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live screens at Hot Docs Saturday, May 2, at 9 p.m. (Fox Theatre) and Sunday, May 3, at 4 p.m. (Bloor Hot Docs Cinema). Twitter: @jimslotek [email protected] ...

It had been 34 years since the last live Python performance (the Hollywood Bowl show), and a good deal of the behind-the-scenes talk here has to do with how up to it they are, how the reunion will ...

By the time The Meaning of Life was finally finished, the various members of the group had all successfully begun to flex their non-Python identities; Gilliam, Idle and Jones had ambitions in film ...

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is a landmark comedy celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2023. The ambitious project, which attempts to answer the biggest question in the more irreverent of ...