The post Eric Idle Says He’s Not “Loaded” from Monty Python: “I Have to Work for My Living” appeared first on Consequence. Eric Idle has set the record straight for anyone who thought he had a cushy ...

Editor's Note: This segment was rebroadcast on October 1, 2019, after "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" was released in paperback. That audio is available here. Monty Python ...

Eric Idle has every reason to gab. He's not only the creator (with John Du Prez) of the Tony-winning musical Spamalot, he's also the main attraction in the opener of Monty Python's Personal Best ...

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE: A Sortabiography. By Eric Idle. Crown Archetype. 289 pages. $27. What exactly is a “sortabiography”? Eric Idle explains in his introduction — or his apology, as ...

To borrow a phrase from Paddy Chayefsky, Eric Idle is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. The founding member of Monty Python, 80, has taken to X in recent days to clear the air on a ...

The Monty Python troupe disbanded several years back, but a number of its comedic lights scarcely sank from view. Ex-Python John Cleese, in particular, made a splash recently in the movie ”A Fish ...

Few things are as terrifying as a 60-year-old Python wandering around downtown Kalamazoo. “They need a few more people here,” kvetches Eric Idle, as he blows around in the perishing early evening ...

Will Sloan talks to Monty Python veteran Eric Idle about his long career and his new "pseudo-radio play," which features actors like Russell... At the beginning of What About Dick?, a stage ...

Eric Idle is used to hearing about the huge influence Monty Python had on the generation growing up in 1970s England but he was surprised to learn about his bizarre role in my early sex education – or ...

Eric Idle has always been one for dramatic irony. But the Monty Python co-creator never could have imagined his art would end up reflecting his life in such an earth-shattering way. "I was writing a ...