It seems tame today!

Terry Jones in a script conference for Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1974. Photo: Radio Times/Radio Times via Getty Images Terry Jones in a script conference for Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1974 ...

As the British comedy troupe celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, Entertainment Weekly looks at the lasting influence of Monty Python's ideas on the funniest folks who followed them. Broad ...

A newly formed book club in Central Oregon is like few others. It’s part support group, part raucous party, but all Proust. The Proust Book Club is dedicated to reading Marcel Proust’s “In Search of ...

Swann’s Way, the first installment of Marcel Proust’s seven-part series, In Search of Lost Time, is a book countless people have started — and a far more countable number have managed to finish. It ...

While it's better known for dead parrots and crossdressing lumberjacks, Monty Python has a surprisingly academic background. Five of the six members of the group (Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry ...

English actor John Cleese has heard enough about sex, nightclubs and getting drunk. Mr. Cleese thinks that these days too much comedy revolves around such mundane topics. He longs for a little more ...

In the bedroom, where the young, disconsolate Marcel Proust tried to go to sleep, in one of the most famous opening passages in literature, the magic lantern still sits near his curtained-off trundle ...