Cross the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich with doses of Monty Python, Kafka and a clown show and you get the Met Opera's "The Nose." Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story, "The Nose" ...

From the ground-breaking sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the whole Monty Python gang, to the Monty Python films, and onto the Broadway stage with ...

Monty Python returns to the Billboard Comedy Albums chart as The Contractual Obligation Album and Monty Python and the Holy Grail reenter at Nos. 6 and 7 in the U.S. Monty Python gang Terry Jones, ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

The ensemble reacts to the appearance of the Nose, left, during the final dress rehearsal for Metropolitan Opera''s production of "The Nose" in New York, Tuesday March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto ...