To the editor: Regarding the etymology of "spam": Anyone who has been in the business for a long time knows that "spam" as applied to unwanted bulk e-mail comes from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch, ...

Just when you thought you had heard the last of anyone exclaiming, "It's only a flesh wound!" in a silly British accent, lo and behold, Monty Python is back again with a reunion show. The surviving ...

Fifty years ago, six mostly-British humorists fresh from injecting dead parrots and Spam into sketch comedy launched their first attempt at movie-making, jumping into cinema with a budget so low they ...