On Aug. 17, 1979 — 45 years ago Saturday — the British comedy troupe Monty Python released a film in the U.S. poking fun at religious institutions, involving a man who is repeatedly mistaken for Jesus ...

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, ...