The Independent will partner with Henley Literary Festival for a fourth consecutive year, it is announced today, with an exciting programme of on-stage events. Journalists from The Independent will be ...

The Independent returns as exclusive news partner of Henley Literary Festival - Nigella Lawson, Celia Imrie, and Eric Idle ...

In 1969, the world was introduced to a joke so good, so funny, so ruthlessly powerful that anyone who read or heard it would ...

Stephen Curry will make his musical theatre debut as King Arthur in the Melbourne and Sydney seasons of Monty Python's Spamalot.

A St John's Wood home once owned by Monty Python legend Eric Idle and used by Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher while filming a ...

Fox Theatre has officially unveiled its 2026 lineup, packed with legendary concert tours, interactive movie nights, premium ...

Spamalot,” playing in St. Paul this week, reminds us just how much Eric Idle and his British partners altered the way we laugh.

The last time Eric Idle’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail spoof musical Spamalot landed at a major Los Angeles venue a decade ago, he played the show’s tweedy historian, who sets the scene for the ...

Eric Idle has revealed he has not seen fellow Monty Python star John Cleese in a decade, as a long-running feud between the comedy legends continues. The rift between Idle, 82, and Cleese, 86, has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Rob Reiner spoke to comedian Eric Idle hours before the director and his wife were killed inside their Los Angeles home. Idle, 82, revealed details about the pair’s final conversation on Monday ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Fifty years after “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” Eric Idle never thought he’d still be talking about the cult classic film, much less a musical inspired by it. But here we are, ...