Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released 50 years ago and became a cult classic that inspires comedy to this day. Here's what fans told NPR the film means to them.

This is a funny way to end the movie. In the movie, the Monty Python group plays several parts: John Cleese plays Sir Lancelot, the Black Knight, and the French Taunter; Graham Chapman acts as ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in ... We’re in the political cartoons,’ ” he said. Then there’s the Black Knight bit in Holy Grail, in which Cleese’s knight is attacked ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered ... you know." The plucky Black Knight ("It's just a flesh wound!") will always hold a special place in my heart, but that debate over air ...

The now veteran directors told the story of King Arthur’s search for the mythical grail during breaks between filming the TV series Monty Python ... the powerful Black Knight (John Cleese ...

Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Fathom Events The famous scene where Graham Chapman, as King Arthur, lops off the arms, legs and head of The Black Knight ...

Fifty years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy ... failing politicians are regularly compared to the Black Knight, who is determined to keep fighting even when his limbs ...

As the Yankees continue to suffer injury after injury this spring, they remind me of Monty Python’s Black Knight. He ... Outdraw the Mets in attendance. *Draw more fans on the road than the ...

While not technically a reference to a singular game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard joins the long list of video games that reference "The Black Knight" Monty Python sketch in a cutscene in the first ...

While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...