Monty Python's Spamalot

"Monty Python's Spamalot," the most eagerly awaited new musical of the season, has been greeted with almost universal guffaws and applause after an opening night of absurdity and nostalgia.
But while The New York Times dubbed it "resplendently silly," many critics noted its warm reception owed much to the audience's affection for the 30-year-old film on which it is based, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
"It's an evening of rapturous insanity -- featuring killer rabbits, hurled cows, outed knights, dancing corpses, horseless horsemen, God, Coconut shells and holy grails," Daily News movie critic Jack Mathews wrote. But he also said around 90 percent of the pleasure of the show was in the anticipation.
The New York Times agreed: "The uninitiated may be bewildered when laughs arrive even before a scene gets under way," it said.

Idle was joined at the opening night by the four other surviving members of the group, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
Together with the late Graham Chapman, the five men revolutionized comedy with the television series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" that started in 1969 with a blend of surrealism and crazy sketches.