British comedian-actor Michael Palin, one of the stars from Monty Python fame, was in Ottawa to receive a geography medal. But he found his way to a seventh-grade class at Longfields-Davidson Heights ...

When we heard that a wheel of cheese had been sent into space this week aboard the first ever launch into orbit and return to Earth by a private company, we were curious. When we heard that the cheese ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Monty Python fans: Brace yourselves. Some of the funniest scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail are about to hit the stage in Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at ...

And now for something completely different. In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator ambushed the BBC with the strangest show in British history. How they got on the air ...

Israeli novelist-travel writer Yuval Ben-Ami weighs in at the +972 blog with a clever take on the snowballing Israeli economic Israel protest: Our situation as Israelis is currently comparable to that ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.