Cleese will be at Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach to take questions following a screening of the cult-classic comedy.

But what many online chuckleheads saw was the “holy hand grenade of Antioch,” a weapon employed during a key scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It’s what Graham Chapman’s ever ...

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.

While “Bring out yer dead!” is one of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ’s most popular lines and scenes, it’s the unabashed optimism and hope emanating from the not-dead-yet man that wins out.