The comedy legend achieved television immortality with both Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers (1975–1979), the sitcom he co-wrote with then-wife Connie Booth.

Cleese will talk and take questions following a screening of the Monty Python comedy troupe’s 1975 film debut.

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was such a success — more than a $5 million international gross, 14 times its budget — that it re-launched the Monty Python brand.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry ...

Directed by both Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was originally released in 1975, just a year after the original "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series ended in 1974.

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.