Barry Took, the British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who helped produce such zany shows as “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and lent his talents to the much-loved American television classic ...

In addition to being a charter member of the celebrated British sketch troupe, he was a director, a screenwriter and an authority on Chaucer. By Neil Genzlinger Terry Jones, who earned a spot in ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...