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
giving leicester appeals
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Subversion is what I do.
reading names laughing
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.
writing self hands
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off
morning men bakers
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
I destroy icons - that's what I do.
helping-others people lame
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
saved our-lives
Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.
nudge-nudge circus bats
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
audience
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
america freedom-of-speech use
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
mother kids thinking
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
california government feelings
I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.
hate boring i-hate
I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.