“For years, there was nothing to laugh at, just Andrew Lloyd Webber and the plates on people”
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Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band the Rutles. Idle studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined Cambridge University Footlights. He has received a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards.
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entertainment · English comedian, actor and writer (born 1943) · film actor · actor · comedian · screenwriter · novelist · singer-songwriter · playwright · writer · guitarist · lyricist · also Eric Idle, Idle
Born 29 March 1943 · Q210741
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2026· 10 entries
“they can just blame me. They can walk right away:”
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“s said no himself in the past.)”
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“I was there on opening night, and I knew it was going to be a gigantic hit. And at that point I had had the idea for the Holy Grail musical, but I dismissed it because of the Python business thing.”
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“That song is in the top 10 of songs sung at funerals. Everybody keeps count of everything.”
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“And so it has that cheery, brighty, blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover cheery-uppy kind of quality to it.”
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“t been any complaints about blasphemy since the show had its U.S. premiere last month in Katonah, N.Y.”
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“The pope could come, Jesuits could come and enjoy this, because it also parodies the tradition of secular religious music over the last 300 or 400 years.”
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“And Shaniqua is the black sheep of the family and they sing. They actually get more applause than we do, it”
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“It was a physically abusive, bullying, harsh environment for a kid to grow up in. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Perfect training for Python.”
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2025· 1 entry
Said that he did not watch comedy and watched very little, mainly Netflix thrillers
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2022· 1 entry
Idle competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Hedgehog"
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2020· 1 entry
It was announced that Idle would adapt his script for Spamalot into a feature film for Paramount Pictures, with Nicholaw directing and Dan Jinks producing
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2019· 2 entries
In 2019, Idle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Idle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Monty Python‘s Spamalot”.
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2012· 1 entry
Olympic Games on 12 August 2012 and as the farewell song of the last show of the Python's reunion at the O2 arena, 20 July 2014
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Monty Python's Spamalot: UK Cast Album”.
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2007· 1 entry
Including two sell-out nights at the Sydney Opera House
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “F**k Christmas”.
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Wrote, produced and performed the song "Really Nice Day" for the movie The Wild
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Monty Python’s Spamalot”.
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“s Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It premiered in Chicago before moving to Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Musical of the 2004–05 season. Idle won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics. In a 2005 poll to find”
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Idle released The Greedy Bastard Diary, a book detailing the things the cast and crew encountered during the three-month tour
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2004· 2 entries
Idle created Spamalot, a musical comedy based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Idle recorded a protest song of sorts, the "FCC Song", in which he lambasts the U
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “The Rutland Isles: A Visit to Liberaçion and Parañoia”.
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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Reintroducing Figment into the ride while also retaining Idle's role as Nigel Channing
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Eric Idle Sings Monty Python”.
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1999· 1 entry
Reprised the role in the short-lived second incarnation of the Journey into Imagination ride at Epcot, replacing Figment and Dreamfinder as the host
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1998· 1 entry
Idle appeared in the lead role in the poorly received film Burn Hollywood Burn
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1996· 1 entry
Reprised his role as Rincewind for the game's sequel, and composed and sang its theme song, "That's Death"
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1995· 1 entry
Idle appeared in Casper opposite Cathy Moriarty and voiced Rincewind the "Wizzard" in a computer adventure game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
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1989· 1 entry
Idle co-wrote and sang the theme tune to the popular British sitcom One Foot in the Grave and although the series became immensely popular, the song did poorly in the charts
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “The Mikado (The English National Opera)”.
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Took part in the English National Opera production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado, in which he appeared in the role of the Lord High Executioner, Ko-Ko; a performance of it was taped by Thames Tele
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1986· 1 entry
Idle provided the voice of Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions (a race of robots built out of junk that can only speak in film catchphrases and advertising slogans) in The Transformers: The Movie
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1982· 1 entry
Wrote a West End farce Pass the Butler, starring Willie Rushton
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1978· 1 entry
The Rutles' mockumentary film All You Need Is Cash, a collaboration between Python members and Saturday Night Live, was aired on NBC television, written by Idle, with music by Innes
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “The Rutland Weekend Songbook”.
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Produced a spin-off book to Rutland Weekend Television, titled The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book
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1969· 1 entry
To actress Lyn Ashley, with whom he had one son before their divorce in 1975
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1965· 1 entry
And was the first to allow women to join the club
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1945· 1 entry
“disappeared for a while into depression”
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-03-29.
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