While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue ...

Audiences can celebrate 48 1/2 years of the comedy with a special nationwide theatrical re-release in select theaters via Iconic Events Releasing and Mercury Studios. Tickets are available here.

Jones (left) with fellow Monty Python stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin Terry Gilliam, with whom Jones directed the group's film The Holy Grail in 1975 ...