Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary
This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which premiered in April of 1975, has inspired similar reflection among comedy enthusiasts. It can be difficult, at this point, to imagine oneself back in a culture not yet disrupted by Monty Python’s rigorously absurd logic, scattershot satire, and deliberate breaking of narrative and social conve
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