Each era has distinct and impactful comedies, making the conversation of the best comedies of the past 75 years especially ...

Monty Python star Michael Palin is making a rare return to acting in Mackenzie Crook's BBC comedy Small Prophets, which ...

Roger Lewis gets a behind the scenes look in to the inner working of the infamous Cambridge Footlights. New book recounts the drama club's history and alumni.

In an episode first broadcast on October 27, 1970, Monty Python’s Flying Circus featured a sketch about a boxing match. One ...

At 82, the former Monty Python star is constantly being warned by his three adult children not to take too many risks in his ...

Money is only one facet of social relations, however. Communities have long discriminated against and ostracized residents with debilitating illnesses—especially those with outward physical effects.

An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness. The post Was leprosy a social death sentence during medieval times? appeared first ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the higher the price ...

Pearce Quigley and Sir Michael Palin lead the cast of this acclaimed new series. Mackenzie Crook is back on the BBC with ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

The Footlights has turned out star names including Stephen Fry, John Cleese, Douglas Adams, David Baddiel and many more ...

The way that Mackenzie writes is quite Pythonic because it’s understated. The best humour is done without a smile. When ...