Idle also noted that he had known Reiner for 50 years and “met him at his Dad’s in 1975.” Reiner was friendly with the old Monty Python troupe, and at the time of his death, he was working on a Fawlty ...

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, ...