“Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” Is Requested At Funerals | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

[@mrmitchell78]

This is quite morbid, but I was badly injured in the London Bombings in 2005. I was 6ft away from a suicide bomber. As I was lying in the carriage, I was naturally quite delirious and started singing “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” quietly to myself. I actually felt guilty for a time after singing it, as if I was being too flippant towards the horrible situation. However, I realised it was lodged in my brain and I sang it to almost tell myself to calm down.

[@davidb5173]

Amazing story. I hope you're doing ok

[@xiaoka]

Epic story. I’m sure the python guys would love to hear a story of how their work has impacted the world.

[@mrmitchell78]

@@davidb5173 yeah, thanks - as with any other major event you try your best to learn to live with it.

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

nothing wrong with it during the falkands war the HMS Sheffiled was hit by an Argentinean exocet missile and was starting to sink many of the crew members started singing allways look on the bright side of life while waiting to be rescued

[@mladent1464]

Whenever I go to an Iron Maiden concert, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life is played from the PA as the concert is over. It's become the soundtrack to collecting myself from the show, sharing impressions with friends and slowly leaving the arena. It's a part of the experience.

[@DSMedicAWD1]

Same at Flogging Molly shows

[@revwillyg6450]

I remember now!

[@Mongrel85]

100% it’s the perfect end to reset after a high energy show, no riots and pushing around with that playing lol

[@WillyGrippo]

Scream for me Long Beach

[@trapiche101]

Anytime I hear Always look on the Bright Side of Life I think of Maiden for that exact reason.

[@entercreativename]

Started planning my funeral a few years ago when I started dialysis because of a severe autoimmune disorder (I'm still young, this might take awhile). The version of this song performed at The Royal Albert Hall as the sing along (the "official" version on the Monty Python channel) was what both had me laughing my head off as well as making it the very first bit of things I had planned for what my friends and I are calling a death party. It's still a funeral, but it's also a small party to celebrate the absurd parts of life.

[@axistiltproductions]

OMG I have been a Monty Python's Flying Circus Fan since I was a kid. My older brother introduced me to the skit comedy in the 70's and was an instant fan like at 7 years old. Watched their show after school and one night my brother told me they made a movie call The Holy Grail and it was finally on the late show on TV. We stayed up late and made home-made pizza and laughed our guts out til the wee hours of the morning. So many great memories and influenced our own sense of humor to this day. Eric, thank you so very much and to all the fellas on Monty Python I still love your shows and events you attend, I will watch your videos forever. Thanks you.

[@Tommyr]

LOVE Eric and the Pythons. My whole life. I'm 66. Thanks for having him on!

[@MusicGunn]

My mother, who died in 2010, absolutely loved that scene in Brian. She wasn't a big Python fan, but she loved that scene.

[@RoyceRemix]

Matt is getting so good with interjections and quick, related commentary - the See Google callback was perfect, well done man

[@garrykanter5773]

Yes he did! (And Eric Idle enjoyed it) Reminded me of Andy.

[@WilfChadwick]

Best headstone inscription is Spike Milligan's, "I told you I was I'll!"

[@hoisin75]

What a life Eric has lived. My favourite python AND I am from Purley for real. Fans will understand

[@PIXPromosMore]

Purley? Say no more, say no more!

[@peteralexander4892]

I'd love to see Brian Cox on the podcast

[@hammerdick82]

Im quite certain he was and just checked. He was on 5/29/2022

[@FattyFunkaPotamus]

i said the same thing!!

[@peteralexander4892]

@@AstroBear11 I can hear your point

[@Cludensyo]

He's been on the podcast twice now I think

[@horacio-ho3bf]

Now that Rogan has gone full wacko, i miss the great scientists of today chatting

[@florete2310]

I always loved the Galaxy Song. It's both deep and also somewhat tongue-in-cheek, trademark Eric Idle stuff - and it is also very beautifully sung❤

[@MarkWladika]

Eric is a world treasure.

[@axistiltproductions]

Thanks Conan and Eric❤❤

[@mauriciohernandezdiaz9825]

‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’: That One Time British Sailors Sang Monty Python as They Watched Their Ship Burn After being struck by an Argentine Exocet missile in 1982, the crew of the HMS Sheffield remembered the sage advice that "When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, give a whistle"

[@KarlKarsnark]

Headstone: "Now, Eric is Idle"

[@jasminemalinao]

Here for Conan rewriting My Way, funeral style😂❤

[@garrykanter5773]

Everybody absolutely hit it out of the park! Thank you!

[@stephenannese8228]

Monty Python and Benny Hill were both part of my (70's) upbringing...!!

[@anweshabanerjee8320]

This needs to be on the TV... After a long time, I took a day off from work, and I have been binging on this for the last 24 hours on KZbin. This so needs to be on TV. Also, I am from India. I have no idea how to access the full episodes. Where do I get them?

[@redfields5070]

I don't know. I hope someone answers.

[@negydimenziosember]

There's Smeagol falling to his death finally having the ring back, there's Bill Murray's character waking up on the same day to the same show on the radio, Kevin being happy that he is alone, etc...and there is "Always look on the bright side of life." One of the greatest moments, about, I am not even sure what, it is just fantastic to experience it.

[@sphiralstudios]

At what age does "Only the Good Die Young" start to get funny to play at a funeral? On the tombstone should just be a chiseled QR code. Thank you Eric for all the laughs, and more for your authenticity. I really enjoyed this session - love to you and all the Pythons.

[@tomhenninger4153]

Great video! I LOVE Monty and Eric! Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.... genius! Thank you Thank you thank you~

[@captainchaos3667]

"people from astrology" - I _hope_ he meant astronomy!

[@dr2926]

Brit Floyd also uses bright side as their exit music

[@pepesoulful]

This was very pleasant. Michael on the pod would be such a treat if it happened!

[@HowDoYouPronounceGIF]

It’s gonna be the anthem of 2025

[@andrewgrove1691]

Yup

[@custos3249]

Through 2028

[@revwillyg6450]

Sigh...yep

[@JeffDoerr]

Wow does that sum it up.😢

[@horacio-ho3bf]

Sure to be a great year for comedy....if we survive

[@Michael-uy1jn]

Can you have a "favourite" Python? I love Eric in everything I've ever seen him in; film, interview or whatever.

[@Seabeams]

9:10 I read this completely wrong while listening on the podcast, I thought Eric was shutting down the podcast for going overtime and ignoring Conan so Conan rushed to cover the awkward silence and wrap it up. So glad they posted this video to show me how bad I am at interpreting a guest's demeanor based on audio input.

[@adamplace1414]

Jack Nicholson singing your song in "As Good As It Gets" (an Oscar winning role!) has to be a career highlight.

[@RishabhAniket]

No! I didn't even know that & so don't the many people I know who love the song including my Dad who introduced me to the song! The song is more iconic than that movie

[@sh0eh0rn74]

It was the highlight of my dad's memorial.

[@singhkirin8]

Please post full eps of The Conan and Jordan show !!

[@Linkan83]

Eric Idle's "That's Death" from Discworld 2 would also be suitable. 🤔

[@cesarmadero05]

I love that one a bit more.

[@TinovanderZwan-t5f]

There's always a second interest a hobby if you may where a person is in his/her element even though it isn't a part of their life I love singing the old rock-and-roll/rockabilly stuff get me a guitarist who knows the buddy holly songs and I'm buddy holly for a day!! get me a pianist and I'm Fats Domino or Jerry Lee Lewis! or even young Elvis!! I must admit I did do a musical bit with my dad in a Chinese restaurant it was Eric Idles's I like Chinese!! I nailed Eric's accent in that one. We also impromptu played my dad on guitar and me singing in a planetarium playing the Monty Python galaxy song while the scope was moving out of the solar system into deep space the song and the graphics matched perfectly!! side note I studied the show 1 time before the impromptu concert but the fit was magical!

[@FattyFunkaPotamus]

this is prime CNF

[@BenJammin2305]

John Oliver looks older and older every season

[@kitty1376]

He uses a lot of makeup on his own show.

[@florete2310]

Oh noooo😂😂😂

[@cesarmadero05]

They should absolutely bring him in for a joke.

[@florete2310]

@@cesarmadero05 They might rather bring in you for a good one.

[@tomallen5837]

omg... yeah I see that now... and I cannot unsee it 😅

[@lachauntiswashington231]

This is great 😂👍🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@linaskranauskas]

when Conan said "and astrologists", I thought, this makes sense - "Musicians, writers, well known scientists, and Exorcists" everyone you need if you want to understand the world

[@simoncarswell3515]

Pretty sure he meant to say astronomers.

[@linaskranauskas]

@@simoncarswell3515 i hope so :)

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

​@@linaskranauskasdon't be racist

[@catmansma]

Can you imagine? I would be pinching myself. I would love to have neighbors that played guitar on the porch in the evening, but where I am, people would complain if someone were playing guitar and "making noise". That would be fun. But, THIS....I am enjoying this so.

[@rangers11ization]

That sort of stands up😂

[@rocky8758]

I remember the first time I saw that scene and laughing so hard and saying that my mom would be mortified.

[@ftuT]

1. That scene by itself would be enough to make Life of Brian my favorite Python movie. 2. Kind of weird Eric Idle has to explain the ironic joke about that scene to Conan, who in spite of being American, usually has a good grasp of dark humor (even British, I guess).

[@redfields5070]

He didn't have to explain it, he just did. Conan is being polite to listen.

[@danspawn85]

Which Brian Cox? The actor or the astronomer that was in a punk band?

[@embracethemystery]

The physicist Brian Cox

[@ScooterOnHisWay2024]

Either would be fascinating to listen to.

[@CasualSpud]

It's definitely on my funeral playlist.. Along with My Funeral by the Crash Test Dummies and It's over by ELO.. I have put more thought into it than is healthy 🤡

[@351cleavland]

2nd most requested funeral song: This is the end, by the doors.

[@aaronmelton1374]

Ya gotta whistle

[@jameslingenfelter5379]

Eric Idle / Conan guitar comedy album release when?

[@riobrasilsambashowssambist1453]

0:30 pretty sure Conan meant "astronomy," and not astrology

[@ogelsmogel]

Tomato, tomato

[@alvarhanso6310]

Was there a Rutles part of the conversation?

2:57 Andy Kaufman/REM/Jim Carrey/Fabian "Friendly World"

[@cesarmadero05]

"What's the second?" Prolly Wish You Were Here.

[@GarethE94]

We throw the word legend about too readily but Eric Idle definitely falls into that category.

[@user-vg2eg7oo5n]

I want to see Conan go to Supercuts for his hair dye job.

[@stephenmilton9998]

Sonja's cup handle through the glass of water😊

[@carstenf279]

"People from astrology...??????" - I bloody hell hope not 🤣

[@TheJipino]

I really hope he means astronomy. He probably does.

[@ScooterOnHisWay2024]

Why can't both be interesting? Yes, astronomy would be better.

[@koho]

Conan - please bring on Brian Cox and Neil dg Tyson! They got the humor ..

[@DavidRowbotham-gu7kz]

If you think Sona goes anywhere near supercuts with that incredible doo, yr well crazy.😊

[@chrisburton4581]

😂😂 my granda had it at his funeral 😂😂😂

[@JMPT]

Nice 🧡

[@stephenbarrette610]

Conan, I love you to bits, as a straight man. But please, Professor Brian Cox is not an astrologer, he is an astrophysicist who also worked at CERN on the Large Hadron Collider, (I think his specialisation was Atlas, one of the detection devices.) But otherwise still love you man - sorry for being so picky. There’s Johnny, there’s Craig, there is David and there’s you.

[@Foma_Stuppa]

You missed an opportunity during that add to have Eric Idle say "or woman!"

[@jonathanwright5338]

Well you certainly looked like a woman from behind I’m very sorry

[@rhyfeddu]

*Richard Keiths, good one. 😏

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Eric idle on Robin Williams entertains,

[@rocketRobScott]

Are we sure Eric Idle isn’t John Oliver’s dad?

[@FishbowlPhenom]

As I believe Mike Myers once said, "There's six faces in the United Kingdom, and this is one of them." Oliver and Idle just happen to fall into the same face subsection. 😄

[@bladempale1751]

Iron Maiden introduced me to Monty Python

[@TheGenTatsu]

This guy was funny in Casper.

[@craiglachman1379]

Richard Keith??? That was a fantastic deeep cut! And no one noticed, alas.

[@Gutol]

There's a huge difference between astrology (what you said) and astronomy (which I hope you meant). "You went to Harvard and you should know that, Conan " 😂

[@bfs007a]

One sometimes talk about influences that cannot be overestimated. But when it comes to Monty Python, their influence is ridicolous. And it is not only into comedy, byt into politics and science as well. They just took all the tables and turned them.

[@dominicdavis3272]

❤❤

[@freem8son86]

Bring on Brian Cox!

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Eric Idle isn’t idle😂

[@blahlbinoa]

I sold this movie to a VERY religious lady at a second hand shop, and she asked "Is this movie religious?" and I told her that it is and she asked "is it very respectful to Catholicism?" I tried not to laugh and nodded "it has a nice musical number in it" She came back a few days later mad as hell and slammed it on our counter and yelled "this movie is sacrilege! My husband of course thought it was funny, but this movie is awfully terrible and not funny at all" which I retorted "I take it your husband has good taste then" and she was too mad at me to retort and just left!

[@jarooosa]

For the statue of Terry Jones he really should be dressed as a peasant woman.

[@mellowfellow-h8r]

my Mum's partner new Terry Jones and he was with him when the 'phone rang, and Terry got the new of Graham Chapman's death.

[@kensalter]

astrology?

[@myrpok]

It could be he was just reinforcing the idea of a great variety of mindful people, but it might also be the case he just flubbed saying astroNOMY while being nervous about interviewing a comedic legend.

[@revwillyg6450]

@@myrpokI was hoping that

[@pavanatanaya]

How about a tombstone QR code?

[@KitchenerLeslie-w6p]

He helped me develop a severe hatred for the religion that I was born into. Cults are fucked. The music was cool, and that's it.

[@johnwatts8346]

great song, but like many great songs has been rather thrashed, im gonna go with 'there is nothing quite as wonderful as money' at my funeral.

[@Arcturuseyes]

I truly hope Terry is immortized as the nude organist, I remember the look on his face, priceless

[@RTSOB1]

I am not prepared to head it up, but I've always thought it would be nice to erect a statue at Benny Hill's gravesite. It would depict Benny, life-size, watering the grass in his characteristic pose. Benny Hill fans will know the pose I'm talking about.

[@stephenmilton9998]

My tombstone.... My name and a qr code to my wiki bio

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

I'd rather The Galaxy Song at my funeral. In fact I think it should be compulsive listening to anyone with a high opinion of themselves

[@I_am_ARTBOT]

Did Conan refer to Brian Cox as an "astrologist?"

[@stephenbarrette610]

Yes he did, please see my comment above! I think he said astrology and astrologist, but I guess astrophysicist sounds the same

[@stephenbarrette610]

Sorry that should read ‘that’s people from astrology’ For some annoying reason I cannot edit my KZbin comments anymore.

[@Intabih]

But did he ask him about Transformers: The Movie?

[@xiaoka]

Astrologers? Just for the mocking? 😂

[@PrimarchX]

Astrology?

[@LPChipi]

Did Conan just say Intelligent people and "Astrology"? He meant astronomy, right?

[@monty3854]

I hope he meant astronomy not astrology.

[@koho]

...ahem ... astronomy ...

[@jeremyb1346]

0:30 it's people from astrology -_-

[@Thisandthat8908]

astrology?! I highly doubt Eric Idle sinks that low.

[@anthonypelaez9316]

Did Conan mix up “astrology” with astronomy? When he was listing “smart” fields of study like science and history, he added “astrology”🙄

[@GrrregDavies]

Astrology?!?!!

[@thubardsask755]

What the hell is in Sona’s water??

[@elliottlamm6527]

Reflection on mug

[@thubardsask755]

Looks like false teeth

[@jeffreykipperman6894]

The tapeworm from RFK's brain?

[@LiViro1]

Even people from astrology? Somehow they don't fit in with the rest of the people Conan mentions.

[@erch4882]

I honestly don’t know who or what he did

[@antsco]

Raising money for a statue is insane

[@ThymeKeeper]

Why do they need Sona for the commercials? Does the script actually read "SONA: Yeah. (laughs)" lol?

[@MrEric1177]

Who cares?? Sona has always been great. Her being part of ad reads fits the evolution of the show perfectly.

[@viva4everdeltakiwi]

Did you not listen to the “i love my couch” quip from Sona? It was so funny 😂

[@terri6854]

Comedians need a foil and a laugh track, and Conan needs a straight man who will ridicule him so he can create comedy from that.

[@robertrootes]

Conan O'Brien talks too much. He doesn't let his guests have their day. Ted Danson does a better job not making the hour about him. Take lessons

[@j0rhnC]

Astrology?

[@DeltaDemon1]

Astrology?