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, ...

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To round out our look at comedians this month, I bring you the story of a television show that influenced generations of comedy. In October 1969, a new sketch comedy show aired on British television. ...

The 1970s Monty Python sketch is set in a restaurant where almost every menu item contains Spam. ("Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, sausage, eggs and Spam"). Mrs. Bun does not want it and argues with the ...

FARGO - There are Trekkies, Star Wars nerds, Juggalos (if you don't know, don't ask) and Parrot Heads. And then there's the Cult of the Dead Parrot. Perhaps the biggest cult-like cultural impact of ...

We are not suggesting that coconuts migrate. Nor do we plan on having Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs, bacon, sausage and Spam for breakfast.To the uninitiated, you'd be forgiven for wondering why we would ...

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, ...