Of all the times Eric Idle has performed “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”—perhaps the jauntiest sing-along ever about facing death by crucifixion—the most memorable came during the Closing ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...