Spam (Monty Python) Python libraries. Spam makers Hormel, while never happy with the use of the word "spam" for junk email, have been supportive of Monty Python and their sketch. Hormel issued a special tin of Spam for the Broadway premiere of Eric Idle's "Spamalot", a musical based on "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". The sketch is part of the company's Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, United States, and also mentioned in Spam's on-can advertisements for the product's 70th anniversary in 2007 - although the date of the Python sketch was incorrectly stated to be 1971 instead of 1970. In 2007 the
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book) John Cleese's departure. Many photographs and Terry Gilliam sketches appear throughout the book. The original release was issued in a plain black cover bearing the title and a cut out window revealing the typeface of the first draft. Subsequent reprints have used a different design, losing the cut out window and adding stills from the film. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book), also known as Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen (Bøk), is the literary companion to the 1975 film of the same name, assembled by co-director Terry Jones. Released in 1977,