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Eric Idle

July 2024

  • Jon Holmes

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Hysterical; The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman; Jon Holmes Says the C-Word

    A tale of mystery illness – and Jell-O – grips; Naomi Alderman illuminates our digital age; and comedian Jon Holmes creates the ‘men talk cancer’ show he needed, featuring Eric Idle, Stephen Fry and more

June 2024

  • UK. Eric Idle and Graham Chapman in a scene from (C)Cinema International Corporation film: Life of Brian (1979) . Plot: Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. Ref: LMK110-J10158-310823 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2RNEJRX UK. Eric Idle and Graham Chapman in a scene from (C)Cinema International Corporation film: Life of Brian (1979) . Plot: Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. Ref: LMK110-J10158-310823 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Divine comedies: the best jokes for the Pope

    Pitching his creed to a roomful of comic stars, the pontiff pronounced that it is good to laugh at God. In which case, he may enjoy these

May 2024

  • Helen Lederer, John Cleese and Alexei Sayle.

    ‘This is a ticking time bomb’: why are so many entertainers forced to work past retirement age?

    From jobbing workers to familiar names, legions of entertainers are working well into their 70s and 80s. Why? Our writer uncovers an alarming story of shrinking budgets, axed royalties, misguided mortgages and paltry pensions

February 2024

  • Eric Idle at awards gig

    Monty Python star Eric Idle: ‘I’m still working at 80 for financial reasons’

    Creator of Spamalot says he sold home last year and that comedy troupe he co-founded in 1969 ‘is a disaster’

October 2022

  • Eric Idle: ‘We’re old farts. We should be left to go quietly to bed and watch the telly.’

    The G2 interview
    ‘I didn’t cry until I knew I was going to live’: Monty Python’s Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer

    Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams – and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life

January 2020

  • Terry Jones as Mr Creosote Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life in 1983

    Monty Python's Terry Jones – a life in pictures

    From Mr Creosote to Brian the Messiah’s mum, the Python founder leaves behind a glorious legacy of film and TV characters• Terry Jones: the Monty Python director – and a very naughty boy

December 2019

  • Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about comedy, from Eric and Ernie to Lee and Herring

    Ken Dodd’s biographer picks his zingers from the literature of laughter-giving

April 2019

  • No joke ... Eric Idle is best known for his work as a member of Monty Python.

    Suspicious powder sent to Eric Idle sparks anthrax scare

  • Hamming it up … George Harrison cameos in Life of Brian, with Eric Idle and John Cleese.

    How George Harrison – and a very naughty boy – saved British cinema

November 2018

  • MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL [BR/1975] L-R:GRAHAM CHAPMAN, ERIC IDLE, MICHAEL PALIN TERRY JONES, JOHN CLEESE AND TERRY GILLIAM [bottom] PICTURE FROM THE RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE

    In brief: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life; Heroes; The Diary of a Bookseller – review

    Eric Idle’s ‘sortabiography’; Stephen Fry’s retelling of the Greek myths; and Shaun Bythell’s confessions of a misanthropic bookseller

October 2018

  • A woman looks at books in a branch of the Waterstones book store in Altrincham, Britain, September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Super Thursday: one day sees 544 new books fighting to be Christmas hits

    More than 500 books coming out on the biggest day of publishing, including memoirs from Eric Idle and Michael Caine, a new Jacqueline Wilson novel and a test book by GCHQ

September 2018

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Hand it to Paul Hollywood – he can take the Bake Off heat

    Rebecca Nicholson
    The TV judge has been pressing the flesh and thereby cooking up controversy

February 2017

  • Danny Lane and Sally Frith in The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat

    Play time
    Eric Idle's The Owl and the Pussycat review – Python primer for kids is a hoot

    This musical adaptation of Idle’s take on Edward Lear’s much-loved poem is a hummable defence of the spirit nonsense

September 2016

  • VARIOUS SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (433290g) MACBETH, Macbeth (Jon Finch) cannot bring himself to slay Macduff (Terence Bayler),1971. VARIOUS SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS

    Terence Bayler obituary

    Film, stage and television actor who often worked with the Monty Python team

August 2016

  • Eric Idle and Brian Cox are to star in a BBC Christmas special ‘depicting the birth of the entire universe’.

    Ex-Python Eric Idle and Brian Cox to take on The Entire Universe for the BBC

    Christmas special will feature an ‘explosion of comedy, music and dance’ choreographed by former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips

October 2015

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python legal battle left me living in a bedsit, says 'seventh Python'

    Mark Forstater, who helped produce Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1973, says his fight for royalties was a ‘tale of greed and desperation’

September 2015

  • At Last the 1948 Show

    Missing episodes of Monty Python precursor At Last the 1948 Show found

  • Oddball Comedy And Curiosity Festival<br>CLARKSTON, MI - AUGUST 30: Comedian Amy Schumer performs during the Oddball Comedy And Curiosity Festival at DTE Energy Music Theater on August 30, 2015 in Clarkston, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images)

    Fall arts preview 2015
    Amy Schumer and Bo Burnham among standout standups in live fall comedy

April 2015

  • monty python tribeca 2015

    Monty Python: 'We hate the Daily Mail slightly more than we hate each other'

    The five surviving members of the British comedy troupe joined host John Oliver for a panel discussion and screening of The Holy Grail during Tribeca film festival

July 2014

  • Monty Python, live

    Monty Python Live (Mostly) review – Parrot fashion and no bad thing for that

    Monty Python's reunion delivers few surprises but their comedic genius remains, writes Stephanie Merritt

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