Eric Idle
- 81 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, composer and comedian
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The weekly interview: Eric Idle
Monty Python said goodbye two years ago with a final show at the O2 Arena in London, but like a parrot nailed to a perch, "final" is open for debate. Eric Idle and John Cleese, a full third of the Pythons, have split off in the past year to tour John Cleese and Eric Idle: Together Again at Last ... for the Very First Time, which stops at the Venetian November 18 and 19. It's fortuitous timing for Idle, who'll have a variety of restaurants to choose from. "It's my wife's birthday on the second night, so I'll have to buy her dinner or something," he deadpans during our phone interview.
Jason Scavone, Las Vegas Weekly, 17th November 2016Eric Idle to resurrect Rutland Weekend Television
Eric Idle is teaming up with Professor Brian Cox to bring back Rutland Weekend Television for a one hour Christmas special.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2016Eric Idle blogs about touring with John Cleese
It's a kangaroo tour of Australia and New Zealand. I shall be hopping round the antipodes. My companion is the legendary John Cleese, a man who has been making me laugh hysterically for 53 years.
Eric Idle, 6th February 2016Eric Idle: the BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Python
The actor and musician pays tax in three countries but doesn't vote in any of them, but he has never regretted leaving London for sunny Los Angeles.
Angela Wintle, The Telegraph, 10th January 2016Eric Idle interview
Monty Python's Eric Idle on travelling with John Cleese, improv with Stephen Hawking - and the best book never written.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 10th December 2015John Cleese and Eric Idle's excellent Florida adventure
In October, Eric Idle hits the highway again, this time with fellow Monty Python icon John Cleese, on a tour that begins with 11 shows in Florida. They will travel by car, which will allow them to sneak up on unsuspecting locals.
Ben Crandell, South Florida, 30th September 2015Eric Idle pens a new novel
Eric Idle has written a new novel, which will be released as a e-book next month. The Writer's Cut is described as 'a wicked, enthralling comedy' about a joke writer whose career has stalled - until he decides to write a novel.
Chortle, 17th September 2015Eric Idle: The diary of a legend
I noticed that with Python we used to be icons but this year it appears we have become legends. So I have decided to keep a diary which wrestles with the intimate problems of being a legend.
Eric Idle, 7th January 2015Prince Charles asked Eric Idle to be his jester
Not long ago, at Billy Connolly's house in Scotland, Prince Charles gave Eric Idle offer he could refuse. "He said, 'Would you be my jester?' " Idle recalled. "I said, 'Why would I want a fucking shit job like that?'"
The New Yorker, 17th December 2014The Rutland Isles
At some point in the early 1980's I got the idea of doing a documentary about a group of islands that don't exist. What a terrific idea, I thought, a story of a place. Not just the story of a few people, but whole peoples, different cultures, different ways of life. They would be called The Rutland Isles and they would be a parody of a travel documentary with weird animals. We would visit strange places and use real documentary footage. I wrote quite a lot of material and then did outlines of a visit to six of these different islands - Poluçion, Paranoia, Amnesia, Contracepçion, Revoluçion, and Liberaçion. Nobody was interested. Not agents, not friends, not people in the media, not even relatives. Not even my dog. It was weird. The reaction was nada. Zero. Zip.
Eric Idle, 21st November 2014