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, ...

How did the word for a tinned meat product become the basis for describing China’s most recent attempts to spew misinformation and foment discord in America? This requires an explanation. In 1937, Geo ...

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "What Honor Wyoming is really complaining about is that the Microsoft Office has a spam filter.

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. ...

LONDON -- The Austin-based makers of Spam are poking fun at themselves yet again by launching a "collector's edition" flavor, Stinky French Garlic, to coincide with the London opening of the Monty ...

The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable is one of the most well-known legends in history. But a group of young local thespians are giving it a laugh-laden upgrade. In “Spamalot,” ...

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 ...

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, ...