Monty Python fans can now join the comedy troupe's official Monty Python's SPAM Club, claiming to be 'the worst run fan club in the world'!

The evidence shows that the use of the word "spam" when referring to junk e-mail could have come from a Monty Python sketch.

Spam basically became an A-list celebrity of the food world. Some 30-something years later, Monty Python turned the spongy canned meat into an unwitting hit song during a sketch that aired in 1970.

Regarding the etymology of "spam": Anyone who has been in the business for a long time knows that "spam" as applied to unwanted bulk e-mail comes from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch, where ...

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Terry Jones, who died Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 77, more than lived up to his friend and Monty Python comrade Michael Palin's description of him as "the complete Renaissance comedian." ...