These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Low-budget Monty Python anarchy is defiantly consigned to the trashcan of its impoverished British past, leaving spectacularly self-conscious and expensive Broadway pastiche newly ablaze in its ...

Is there anything sillier than a chorus line of medieval knights with goblets on their heads, dancing the hora? Or a florid self-help ballad titled “Find Your Grail,” crooned by two titans of ancient ...

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...

There’s a special kind of laughter that comes from those who have inherited rubble — a laughter that doesn’t deny history but strips it of its borrowed grandeur. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” ...

Low-budget Monty Python anarchy is defiantly consigned to the trashcan of its impoverished British past, leaving spectacularly self-conscious and expensive Broadway pastiche newly ablaze in its ...