One line may not be much, but it's enough to make the nerves set in

Fogle said during 'episode' he began doing a sketch from Monty Python

The dead parrot! Mrs Sartre!! How did we manage before 'Monty Python'? Very well indeed...

It has not been a happy time for English clubs in Europe – in the last three Heineken Cup campaigns, the Premiership fraternity have filled only four of the 24 quarter-final places available – and if results go the wrong way this weekend, another humiliation will be on the cards.

From the seventh Python to a missed Nobel prize, Jonathan Brown looks at those who fame forgot

Idle, Jones and Palin vent their fury at ‘Holy Grail’ director’s claim for higher musical's royalties

The Monty Python team are not “unpleasant shifty people” who try to cheat people out of what they deserve, the High Court was told toay.

Pensioners give more to charity

Members of comic tour de force Monty Python are embroiled in a legal dispute over hit musical Spamalot that has been taken to the High Court.

As the government sets about dismantling the NHS and as rationing of rare resources becomes ever more moralising and invidious, this is a particularly timely moment for Nadia Fall's delightfully spirited, musically paced and handsomely designed revival of The Doctor's Dilemma. 

Jermyn Street Theatre is partial to rummaging for rarities in the back catalogue of great dramatists. Well, they don’t come much rarer than this – the UK premiere, no less, of St John’s Night which  Ibsen wrote at the tender age of 23 and later tried to disown.

A smart comedian brings off that tricky first novel with energy and wit.