MIKE Nichols didn’t have much luck on Broadway last season producing “The Play What I Wrote,” a short-lived revue based on old sketches by the fabled British comedy team Morecombe & Wise. But that ...

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, ...