Monty Python sprang into public consciousness in the 1970s as an anarchistic, nasty, rude, awfully British comedy series for English TV. It had its precedents in British humor, in particular the radio ...

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, ...