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.

On March 31, 1983, the Monty Python team unveiled their latest feature, The Meaning of Life, in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the R-rated Universal comedy is below.

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life hit theaters in 1983, when the troupe was falling apart and both the surrealist sketch-comedy movement and the midnight-movie craze it helped pioneer were ...

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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 ...

The Meaning of Life, the Monty Python film that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, is full of funny sketches By Martin Chilton 20 April 2014 • 4:00pm ...