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Monty Python’s Eric Idle is still "Always Looking on the Bright Side of Life." He’s out with a "sortabiography" and joins us.
The heyday of Monty Python’s comedy may be over, but we’re living through a golden age of Monty Python members sniping at each other in interviews. After Eric Idle’s Twitter feud with John ...
Ex-Python John Cleese, in particular, made a splash recently in the movie ”A Fish Called Wanda.” So where`s Eric Idle, one of the biggest of the Python originals?
Eric Idle isn’t a stand-up, but his comic sensibilities and timing are better than any ten comedians. He has experience galore thanks to working with a little sketch comedy group–Monty Python ...
Hari Sreenivasan sits down with comedian Eric Idle, founding member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
John Cleese just loves to complain about how many decades-old jokes don’t fly with modern audiences. He moaned about having to cut racial slurs from the stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers, refused to d ...
Comedy star Eric Idle says Sir Paul McCartney was initially "a bit weird" about his spoof band The Rutles until he found out the actor had spent his childhood in Merseyside. Idle played ...
Will Sloan talks to Monty Python veteran Eric Idle about his long career and his new "pseudo-radio play," which features actors like Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and Tracey Ullman.
Eric Idle is writing a memoir, and Monty Python fans can guess the title: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.” “We used to be babe magnets. Now we’re fridge magnets,” Idle said in a ...
The Monty Python Reunion: Eric Idle on Why He's Glad There Are Only 10 Shows By Devon Maloney July 1, 2014 eric-idle-mony-python-comedy-show-london-entertainment.jpg ...