Eric Idle
Eric Idle
Eric Idleis an English comedian, actor, voice actor, author, singer-songwriter, musician, writer and comedic composer. Idle is a member of the English surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of The Rutles and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 March 1943
accurate
A lot has been said about politicians; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
rain years house
I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
dog animal wife
My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.
pay attention figures
I never pay any attention to figures.
giving-up real able
I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.
people dinner these-days
I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!
america fund pension
I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.
three frost week
When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.
people looks trump
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
writing python years
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.
home california house
I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
jobs war leaving
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
sorry writing three
When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.
writing television evening
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.