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Flying high, from left: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese prepare to play the Hollywood Bowl in 1982

Nudge, nudge: Eric Idle on 40 years of Monty Python

'Life of Brian' has been resurrected as something completely different: an oratorio for orchestra, 160 choristers and four of the surviving Pythons. It is, Eric Idle tells Andrew Johnson, very silly indeed

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'Every sperm is sacred': Terry Jones' favourite Monty Python sketches

Sunday, 18 October 2009

40 years of Monty Python

Observations: All in the (same) name of comedy

Friday, 16 October 2009

What's in a name? Well, if you're called Thomas or Tom, it seems you're more likely to have funny bones.

Observations: Phil Kay and Beardyman set to improvise at Bristol Jam

Friday, 16 October 2009

The UK's first major festival of improvised performance, Bristol Jam, opens today at Bristol Old Vic. It was the bright idea of the theatre's new artistic and executive directors, Tom Morris and Emma Stenning. Topping the bill is the god of improvised comedy, Phil Kay. "He swore at me as he has been trying to set up a festival of improvised performance for years in Scotland," says Morris.

Is Monty Python's Flying Circus dead as a parrot?

Monday, 5 October 2009

John Walsh dusts off the tapes of the iconic comedy - 40 years old today - to see if it is still funny.

Funny peculiar: The curious world of Vic Reeves

Saturday, 26 September 2009

John Walsh meets a comedy genius

Cultural Life: Janeane Garofalo, comedian

Friday, 11 September 2009

'I'm a big fan of 'True Blood', which is about vampires'

Down on her uppers: The 'posh electro poet' who's Britain’s most exciting new talent

Sunday, 6 September 2009

George Pringle is a very well-spoken 'electro poet' – and she doesn't give a fig that the music media think she's too middle-class. Hugh Montgomery meets her, and two more stars lighting up our autumn arts guide

Cultural Life: Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian

Friday, 28 August 2009

'I went to the Comedy Carnival in Dublin. It's a fantastic experience and really well programmed, with lots of interesting acts.'

Richard Bacon: 'Each year's visit to the Edinburgh Festival increases my respect for the job of stand-up comedian

Thursday, 27 August 2009

It'll be a laugh," my producer Garth told me when I asked him to remind me why I'd agreed to do this. And to be honest, I have been struggling to remember.

Funniest on the Fringe: From bad poetry to a campaign against Virgin trains meet the contenders for this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards

Thursday, 27 August 2009

The shortlist for this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, formerly the Perriers and the if.comedy awards, may not have any women on it but the panel have nevertheless made some interestingly leftfield choices. Those up for the "unofficial Oscars of comedy" include the lo-fi poet Tim Key, the whimsical Tom Wrigglesworth, new man John Bishop and sensitive, neurotic soul Jon Richardson.

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