Nothing kills a joke faster than explaining it. But nothing’s more tantalizing to an expert on gait, the technical term to describe a person’s way of walking, than understanding it. So which wins out ...

Walking like John Cleese's character, Mr. Teabag, in Monty Python's famous "Ministry of Silly Walks" skit requires considerably more energy expenditure than a normal walking gait because the movement ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

This hilarious footage shows good-humored villagers making fools of themselves after a resident put up a sign stating: “You are now entering the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Silly Walks.” ...

Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch has been making audiences laugh for 50 years, and now we have a sense of just how silly its star’s walking style is. An analysis shows that John Cleese’s ...

More than half a century after first airing on the BBC, Monty Python’s famous “silly walk” sketch has inspired a group of researchers at Arizona State University to see how effective it might be for ...

Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ, a British medical ...

Every December, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) editors put together a light-hearted Chrismas issue that contains playful evidence-based scientific studies that are rigorously researched and ...

One of the best-known sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus features John Cleese as a bowler-hatted bureaucrat with the fictional Ministry of Silly Walks. It's a classic of physical comedy, right ...

(WXYZ) — During these serious times, it’s nice to find some humor and connections, even if it’s during a walk. A family in Grosse Pointe Park put up a sign ...