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Monty Python
Article: What to Watch on IFC: December 12 – December 18
Scrap all your plans for Saturday, because you’re not going anywhere except to your couch to watch a Monty Python double feature.
Article: Watch This Now: ‘Monty Python Live at The Hollywood Bowl’
Monty Python is a staple here at IFC, not only because it is cry-laugh funny, it is one of the most influential comedy programs ever created. As much as we love “The Whitest Kids U’Know”and the “Kids in the Hall,” we know that they probably wouldn’t have existed without the lasting influence of Terry Gilliam,…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: November 7 – 13
Monday No need to blaspheme, it’s easy to always look on the bright side of life when “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” airs on IFC. It’s on tonight at 9:45 p.m. ET Tuesday “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” is a surreal crime drama told as only Jim Jarmusch could. The film stars Forest…
Article: And Now for Something Completely Different: A Monty Python Double Feature
There are few things in life that are not improved by adding humor. The wise men of Monty Python took this fact to the logical conclusion that the Bible and the hunt for the Holy Grail would be even more compelling if they were pants-splittingly, tear inducing, fall down funny. So when you add a…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: August 1 – August 7
Welcome to August where the men are sweaty, the women are glistening, and everyone has stockpiles of industrial grade antiperspirant. Leaving the safety of the air conditioning is a surefire way to get a nose full of olfactory awfulness and is not recommended. Fear not, IFC is here for you. Not only do we have…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: May 23 – 29
Well…we either survived the Rapture, or it’s really really subtle. Either way we’re going to need some time in front of the warming glow of the television to think about what we’ve done. Here’s what to watch this week on IFC: Monday One of the best-loved films from the idiosyncratic British film studio Ealing Pictures…
Article: A Brief Interview With The Whitest Kids U’Know’s Timmy Williams
The fifth and final season of the sketch comedy show The Whitest Kids U’Know is underway at IFC. We are showing new episodes of one of the wackiest, crassest, and funniest show around every Friday at 10:30 p.m. ET. As an added bonus each episode has another chapter of The Civil War on Drugs, the…
Article: A Round Up of Monty Python Finds On Etsy
In honor of Monty Python’s Life of Brian gracing our airways at 7 p.m. ET/PT today, we have done a great favor for all Monty Python fans out there. You know who you are. Here is a round up of some of our favorite Python-alia available for purchase on the craftastic Etsy. We’ll take one…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: January 24 – January 31
It’s another Monday, which means it is the perfect time to train your dog to program your DVR. Or, if you’re from the past, to teach the pooch how to press ‘Record’. Either way there are a lot of great shows, movies, and entertainment for both you and your canine companion on IFC this week.…
Article: IFC + iTunes (+/- Amazon) = TLA
Love the shows on IFC? Did you know that you can buy them on iTunes or Amazon and watch them on your portable electronic device on the train to grandma’s house? You know your grandmother would like it if you visited more. Let IFC help make that trip over the river and through the woods…
Article: Monty Python Teams Up with Developer for Ministry of Silly Games
When you think of entertainers aiming to find fame, fortune and/or adulation for themselves in the digital realm, the surviving members of famed comedy troupe Monty Python probably don’t come to mind. Yet, they’re rolling out a casual games portal under the rubric the Ministry of Silly Games in partnership with developer Zattikka. No word…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: December 5 – December 12
While we are getting a bunch of great comedy programming in 2011 (Mr. Show! Larry Sanders!), don’t worry, we are closing out 2010 with a bang … and a pow, kersplat, and shazam, too. Trust us, Layer Cake has a lot of sound effect worthy moments. Here’s what to watch this week on IFC: Monday…
Article: We’re Asking: What’s Your Favorite Terry Gilliam Movie?
We love Terry Gilliam. From his work as Monty Python’s animator-in-chief to his many and sundry hilarious roles in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (on today from 7:05 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET) to “Life of Brian”, there is nothing about this Python we don’t like. We love Gilliam’s work in front of the camera almost…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: November 15 – November 21
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, the weather is getting colder, it’s time to settle in for winter. We are here to help you hibernate with a line up of shows stretching from new episodes of Judd Apatow’s gimlet-eyed look at college life in Undeclared to a Larry Clark double whammy with Another Day in Paradise and…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: October 25-October 31
Halloween is on Sunday, which makes this the spookiest week of the year. We’re making sure the kiddies don’t hog all the fun for once by airing one episode a night of awesome British import Dead Set all week at midnight as part of Indie Screams. Then as a treat that goes well with a…
Article: What to Watch on IFC: October 18-October 24
Do you hate Mondays? I bet you like lasagna, too. And maybe you have an enemy named Nermal? You’re not alone. Here at IFC we are working hard to make everyday less like Monday and more like Sunday when the comics are in color and The Whitest Kids U’Know are taking over your television set.…
Article: Living the ‘Life of Brian’
And now for something completely different …except, well, we know we did a Monty Python post just last week. But when we saw that their hilarious (and most likely very blasphemous) film Life of Brian was on today’s schedule (it airs at 8:25 p.m. ET), we knew we had to do another one. Besides, the…
Article: Our Five Favorite Sketches From Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a staple here at IFC. It is one of the most influential comedy programs ever created. As much as we love The Whitest Kids U’Know and the Kids in the Hall, we know that they probably wouldn’t have existed without the lasting influence of Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle,…
Article: We are so incredibly Emmy-nominated right now.
We are very proud to announce that IFC received two Emmy Award nominations this morning for our six-part documentary series “Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut).” The show is up for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, and directors Bill Jones and Ben Timlett have been nominated for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming. We produced “Monty…
Article: “The Wind in the Willows,” take umpteen.
Of all the children’s books that have cycled through different movie permutations without anyone ever getting it 100% right, “The Wind in the Willows” may well be the strangest. Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 pastoral is one of the few things involving talking animals that doesn’t insult anyone’s patience, a super-nostalgic celebration of the Country Life, English…
Article: Eric Idle’s Very Naughty “Messiah”
On October 23, 2009, The Royal Albert Hall in London hosted an oratorio, a night of singing and orchestral music from a choir, symphony, and soloists. The performers were in their formal wear. The conductor wore tails. The house was packed. It was like a scene from an especially tony episode of PBS’ “Great Performances.”…
Article: The Adventures of Baron Gilliam
When Heath Ledger passed away in January 2008, he was in the midst of shooting his second collaboration with famed filmmaker and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. His death should have doomed “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.” But Gilliam, who’d already had “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” fall apart, as famously documented in…
Article: “Star Wars” may have its own beer, but is it art?
There really is no end to what true “Star Wars” fanatics are willing to shell out for. Which can be a problem if, say, said product isn’t licensed by George Lucas, as Andrew Ainsworth recently found out the hard way. In 1976, Ainsworth — then an industrial designer — made 50 Stormtrooper helmets, for which…
Article: Monty Python: 40 More Years!
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, the five surviving members of Monty Python, gathered at New York’s Ziegfeld Theatre for a rare reunion in order to celebrate their 40th anniversary and to receive a special award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. After a screening of a…
