But an autobiographical reading of The Holy Grail has just been floated — and not by some unhinged fan, but by Eric Idle. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Idle chatted about a number of ...

the great Eric Idle also portrayed Lancelot's squire Concorde, the Collector of the Dead, Roger the Shrubber, Brother Maynard ...

Formed in 1969, members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones ... hit retooling of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, which is now back on Broadway.

King Arthur and his knights encounter a series of very silly obstacles on their quest to retrieve the Holy Grail. They face riddlers, giants, a ferocious rabbit and a castle full of rude Frenchmen.

While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...