Top-ranked Purdue is feeling good about its season as it heads into a post-Thanksgiving matchup against Eastern Illinois on Friday afternoon in West Lafayette, Ind.

Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle Ages, or even in the late 19th century, ordinary citizens spent as much ...

That was not the case when the show first aired in 1969, written and performed by Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and the late Graham Chapman, with creepy animations by Terry Gilliam — ...