Playing the straight guy in a comedy is one thing, but playing him in "Spamalot," complete with murderous rabbits, flatulent Frenchmen and head-banging monks, is quite another. "It's a stupidly fun ...

Fifty years ago, six mostly-British humorists fresh from injecting dead parrots and Spam into sketch comedy launched their first attempt at movie-making, jumping into cinema with a budget so low they ...