Eric Idle On His Disagreement With John Cleese | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

[@seaoftranquility7228]

My favourite story about George Harrison’s involvement in ‘Life Of Brian’ was when he was asked why he had financed it when everybody else had backed off he said simply “I wanted to watch it”.

[@Jamski-s7g]

It was described as one of the most expensive cinema tickets ever bought.

[@seaoftranquility7228]

@ Ha! Nice.👍

[@justinklenk]

God do I _LOVE_ me a George Harrison story - there are so MANY great ones. I want to start telling some here, but I'd digress... ❤ What a gem of a human being he was/is.

[@gordonwilson1631]

@@justinklenkA working class hero is something to be.

[@Filmmaker809]

It was the best Monty Python film.

[@JZekis]

Conan's interviews with these elder statesman veteran comedians are some of his best.

[@TeemuSintonen]

100%. What a time to be alive!

[@RIUUI007]

I bet Sona has no idea who Eric is.

[@KairuHakubi]

I love hearing him call Flying Circus the most influential TV show of all time, and meanwhile he worked on the best era of the Simpsons, which is absolutely either tied, right above, or right below that.

[@RandomAccessDreams]

Conan's "Serious Jibber-Jabber" with Mel Brooks is one of my favorite interviews of all-time.

[@catcherinthesky]

Eric looks exactly like how i am picturing John Oliver to look in 30 years.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

I don't think I will be able to unsee that now.

[@scotthughes2687]

Thank you!! I’ve been trying to place it, that’s it what I’ve been seeing.

[@Vaginaninja]

A British guy with thick-framed glasses. Oliver won't look like this

[@Prodriver33]

God I hope John doesn’t see this….

[@rbkahuna8192]

I was gonna say, is Eric John’s dad? 😂

[@aquamarine99911]

Eric at one point says he likes still going out there to make people laugh, then catches himself and says "to see if I can still make people laugh". Ridiculous display of humility, from one of the all-time greats.

[@benjaminparker3485]

for real... damn.

[@stevena488]

I always liked the take from Joel Morris, a British comedy writer, who pointed out PERFECTLY to me what the tension was that created the atmosphere of Python. It wasn't a collaboration. It was a rivalry between two sides in the troupe. Oxford vs Cambridge. Terry Jones was head of the Oxford portion of the troupe and Cleese the Cambridge. It's an OLD toff laden rivalry. Also, Idle shook up Footlights in Cambridge by letting women finally join in 1965. Before then, it was men only. I like that Eric Idle fact

[@justinklenk]

That's a fascinatingly insightful 'little' gem. (Not so little, honestly.) Tell me - I'm an American - is the 'Oxford-Cambridge' thing essentially just a team/school rivalry ('Ohio vs Michigan') - or is each associated with different (clashing?) values/principles (like our 'conservatives vs liberals' impasse) - ?

[@markdaly1648]

Miriam margolyes loathed Cleese and Chapman for thier "hostile" and "exclusionary" attitude towards her. She fought her way into footlights but Cleese and Chapman shunned and isolated her. Idle and Palin could not have been nicer. She said. In her memoirs

[@lucienswift447]

@@justinklenk It's a Harvard/Yale thing.

[@kael13]

@@justinklenk They're the two ancient/prodigious schools of the UK. Students might try to get into both but you're meant to only put one as a 'first choice'. So that becomes a rivalry that extends out past graduation.

[@jaycee330]

@@justinklenk It more like Harvard vs Yale in this instance.

[@stevenspringer1599]

"The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief" I bought this album the day it came out and we got very stoned and listened to it. Then we listened to it again. I played side 1 again, then turned it over and played side 2 again...and heard material we had never heard before! "The album's original LP edition is particularly notable in that it was mastered with two concentric grooves on side two, so that different material would be played depending on where the stylus was put down on the record's surface. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as a "three-sided" record. " It was a seriously mind-blown moment...

[@tylerxbfs]

At first did you think that you had just missed it because you were stoned? Haha

[@dr.scotthoyepsy.d.598]

Yes, had that album, and thought I was stoned or losing my mind on second listening.

[@justinklenk]

That's a great f'n story! Ah... vinyl and marijuana - and friends choking to breathe from their insane laughter. 👍❤

[@ysgol3]

LOL I had exactly the same feeling except for the drugs - I played Side 2 at least 10 times before it 'changed' - I suddenly became scared to go from my bedroom to the lounge in case my parents had turned into completely different people.

[@michaelhockus8208]

pretty dang cool

[@tenorjosh]

I was lucky enough to do Monty Pythons Spamalot National tour a while back. 18 Year’s working as a singer/actor and THAT was still the best, and most fun experiences I’ve ever had. I Learned so much and give a great deal of gratitude to these people

[@justinklenk]

How f'n SPLENDID!! 👍 I'm green with envy...

[@Marciacontrado]

I can't imagine anything better! What joy. I saw it on broadway with my son in 2008 and what a blast. I hope you're still working.

[@michelleneeds4165]

​@@MarciacontradoI took my mum for her birthday around that time in the West End of London, can't for the life of me remember the name of the theatre, but it was one of the very old ones where the seats are tiny and the balcony we were on was very steep! I think that was my first ever West End show. Brilliant tho, a must see for any Python fan!!!

[@davidgangemi3314]

I remember 20 yrs ago seeing Idle in Boston doing a tour called Eric Idle exploits Monty Python. The title alone made me buy a ticket. It was a hoot! Of course it was everything it promised. Him doing all the great sketches of Python live with other British comedians whom I didn't know,but nonetheless were there to flesh out the scenes like the four Yorkshiremen,Parrot Sketch,Spam,etc. And a few musical numbers such as Always Look on the Bright Side of Life which had the crowd singing and whistling throughout. So glad he's still with us. It felt like seeing a solo George Harrison show who had just passed the year before. I was about 10 rows from the stage so it was great to be that close to my Idle. See what I did there? Probably why I was in the audience and not on the stage.

[@jayparmo2284]

With that terrible joke youd be booed louder than the cannibal undertaker 😉

[@duncanmcdonald5250]

You probably didn't intend to, but you've unintentionally attributed "Four Yorkshiremen" to Monty Python. Although John Cleese and Graham Chapman wrote it along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, it was in the 1967 series "At Last The 1948 Show".

[@Kieop]

@@duncanmcdonald5250 You can really see the seeds of Python in that show, but the sketches don't really work. The pacing is off. Cleese and Chapman really needed the others to "edit" their work.

[@whaddup5417]

Decades later I’m still quoting “she turned me into a newt!! - I got better”

[@danielsarmiento1591]

A newt?

[@mach2223]

I got better is a legendary quote.

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

A WITCH!! A WITCH!!!

[@insidethemusicalmind7207]

Same!

[@duringmydeath]

That's because that's one of the most hysterical lines ever written. I adore that film.

[@dianem8544]

I understand not wanting to see Mommy and Daddy fight and you might think it's childish to be disappointed to hear about some conflict between people you admire, but I think even as adults, it's normal to want to think that our idols or role models are what we thought they were. For my generation, we'll always have Mr. Rogers. He absolutely was the guy we thought he was, and that's very comforting.

[@KenLieck]

I remember seeing an interview with Captain Kangaroo saying something like "Rogers was a wonderful man, but you want a glass of wine with dinner and he thinks you're an alcoholic!"

[@dianem8544]

@@KenLieck Sure, but at least he wasn't accusing the Captain of being an alcoholic and then going home and slamming 15 bottles of beer in a night. He might have been naive about things but at least he wasn't a liar or a hypocrite.

[@RIUUI007]

You got to see Mr. Rogers for like 2% of what he did in his life. The other 98 you have no idea what he did, said or got up to. You can't say you absolutely know he was what you thought he was.

[@KenLieck]

@@dianem8544 Absolutely. It was just so hilariously unreal to hear that from the Cap'n!

[@dianem8544]

@@RIUUI007 True, I'm under no illusion that I knew the man but nothing negative has ever come out about him. We get to remember him as we remember him.

[@NekoMouser]

@0:40 Kudos to Robert Smigel! Anyone who understands that there are different kids of laughs and that you want to invoke different kinds at different points in the bit as part of the build and proper flow...that's someone who truly "gets" comedy and comedy writing.

[@LordRefa]

Is it an AI editing the ads into the videos, cuz it Always cuts off in the dumbest of moments, mid sentence etc

[@aviralgupta393]

PREACH

[@JoshuaTootell]

That ad break was like hitting a wall.

[@jamescarter3196]

I'm starting to think it's an exact same time in these clips. Casually it seems to be around the same spots based on clip length, and it's about 40% of the way in, maybe designed to hit the exact middle of clip-time by the end of the ad.

[@DroolRockworm]

This has to be the worst ad placement in a show I've ever seen

[@justinklenk]

They _keep on doing it, every time._ It seems WHOLELY intentional - 😢 - to maximize their monetary gain by being willing to ruinously interrupt the HEIGHT of these conversations.

[@Azhalan]

I could listen to this man for hours. Monty Python were and always will be a huge part of my life. I would be surprised if there has been a single day in the last 30 years that I didn't at least once make a reference to their incredible work.

[@dlxmarks]

The business disagreements were caused in part by Cleese's need for cash after his huge divorce settlement to his third ex-wife. At 69, he was hit with a £12 million bill including paying her £600,000 per year for seven years. And then four years later he married his fourth wife.

[@florete2310]

Yeah, ... some guys don't know when it's better to hit the break for a little while... Pity. Hope, they can find a way to make it work. In terms of setting aside their differences.... I totally get Conan's sentiment, like, you know... "I don't want Mommy and Daddy arguing"...

[@dlxmarks]

@@florete2310 Cleese made the best joke about it when he and Idle were guests on _Conan_ in 2016: "One of my ex-wives died and it was very sad because it was the wrong one."

[@ragnaraxelson59]

Lol. When you get to your 3rd or 4th ex wife - you know that you are the problem.

[@di8859]

She's a witch, she's a witch!

[@TheGreatAtario]

Some people never learn

[@corbelius6]

I'm so Happy to see this gent. Python gave me so much joy!

[@fatsuperfly]

I would quote them so much at work, and I felt old, only about 27 😂(grew up with older cousins) Anyways thank god for KZbin times like that, I could show my coworkers the skits and lines and they finally got it, and they start quoting lines too. 😂 these movies are treasures that need to keep going.

[@corbelius6]

@@fatsuperfly I was 11 when we saw this stuff.

[@fatsuperfly]

@@corbelius6 I was probably around the same age, it just hit right, so wacky and brilliant.😂

[@corbelius6]

@@fatsuperfly I hope that you also saw the "Goodies" They were also twisted and weird.

[@robreynolds8759]

@@corbelius6 yum yum…

[@jam-nc8ut]

Eric looks amazing at 81. He's the Ringo of the Python's in that respect. He's also a comedy legend. I love all the Python's, including those that have ceased to be.

[@richyalexander9206]

His arms look too thin (muscle loss) and he seems to start having some slight problems talking. I hope he's fine though, love his work.

[@Geokinkladze]

"including those that have ceased to be" They're just resting

[@mikearchibald744]

For one thing I think Eric was tweeting this because sadly its only such news that gets media attention, which it did. David Gilmours wife writes a nasty tweet about Roger Waters and its fodder for months. He had a book coming out so I wonder if it was just to get the media attention which sadly only focuses on drama and not creativity. He also might be a bit miffed that he hardly hears from them anymore. That video of him and John on Australian television is just gold "I did notice that it was making fun of an infirmity, the deaf" John: "Well I'm deaf and I found it funny". Eric "well you farging wrote it". Its clear they had a gas together, but it didn't last. But Twitter is a real beast for that. Sometimes people write crap without even thinking, or just keep rambling on. And of course its likely there are about ten thousand tweets but we only ever hear about one.

[@catmansma]

How much fun it was for me telling my children about Monty Python. When I was young-er, it came on our local PBS channel on Saturday evening I think. I'm from a small town in the Midwest States, and I couldn't understand half of what was said, but I remember a line, " Your Lupines or your life!!" But, my kids thought or finally realized that their mom was cool. I told them about Star Wars as well. They are fans now...like everyone else. So " these guys" here, Eric and Conan gave me memories. Like family gives memories. They are part of my history. And there are many others. So....if you see this...Thank you. Very much for the laughs times in my history. ❤❤❤

[@claymor8241]

It’s good that you can share it with your kids. It was the other way round in the U.K. in the 70s. Python were hugely popular among young people, but few parents back then got it.

[@kyledavidson8712]

He robs from the rich And gives to the poor Dennis Moore Dennis Moore

[@benhusmann6521]

I'm with Conan here. I very much want the Python team to get along, and be truly happy.

[@honeybeebadger]

Nudge nudge wink wink 😂😂

[@michaelvisser6286]

Say No More

[@MrNategriffin]

know what i mean....know what i mean.

[@michaelvisser6286]

@@MrNategriffin a nods as good as a wink to a blind bat

[@florete2310]

That's what I was thinking too, LOL😂

[@cesarmadero05]

Eric and John did a tour together in 2017 and were the guests on CONAN after the US election in 2016. It's probable he didn't saw Michael Palin since the O2 shows.

[@wingflex5367]

1:08 "If you're trying to do it right." And he should know, he was in a very popular boy band called 'Doin' it Right'

[@Kshwhdigwffekk]

Dudez A-Plenti Baby, I Wish You Were my Baby

[@finch45lear]

These are two of my favorite comedic writers. Having the opportunity to have dinner at Eric’s home with all those interesting people must be marvelous.

[@Marciacontrado]

My two favorites too.

[@RayThackeray]

I'll never forget being in a San Francisco dinner theatre sitting at a table with my wife and another couple we didn't know, tp watch an Eric Idle performance. Then up strikes the music for "Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me..." with the lyrics projected above the stage and we were told to sing along. The other couple were absolutely shocked, but I was gleefully joining in. In the intermission they were even more shocked when I told them I first saw that on prime time BBC television in England as a teenager. Priceless.

[@robynpress9534]

I will always respect Idle for not turning into a transphobe like Cleese.

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

Saw Eric in Calgary during the “Greedy Bastard” Tour…. He was on fire, and on point. Python pulled me through some dark days, and was part of my writing education.

[@ES-qm5hr]

I'm glad they are still doing shows. I saw John Cleese live a year ago and it was fantastic.

[@keaton718]

"I'm not saying that because it's on the copy here", haha.

[@hwizell7478]

@2:30 Raising glass in your general direction of Chateau de sassy lei

[@haydenduvall162]

If anyone should be insanely wealthy it's the Python guys - they gave us so much and set the foundation for a huge amount of future comedy. Economic forces and natural justice don't often align.

[@jamescarter3196]

Well they probably all would be if it weren't for that unfortunate 'spending too much' thing that rich people tend to do. They forget that self-importance doesn't generate money. They have definitely made very good money and they definitely haven't all adhered to good spending habits.

[@andrewharris2717]

They're not by any means, John will admit it before anyone, the multiple divorces financially destroyed him.

[@dlxmarks]

@@andrewharris2717 Cleese made the most money over his total career but got particularly crushed by his 3rd divorce and then got married to his 4th wife. The others were more stable: Idle and Jones, 2 marriages, Palin and Gilliam, 1 marriage, and of course Chapman, 0 marriages.

[@joe-vz6hx]

Frankly I was never a fan of Conan as a talk show host, but I love these interviews and have become a huge fan of his in that way - I think it's because he doesn't have to be "on" as much for some mindless squealing audience and can talk to guests on a far more normal, intelligent, "real person" level, and he's great at it. Thanks for these.

[@corporalclegg914]

brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin when danger reared his ugly head, he bravely turned his tail & fled.

[@mattiassjoquist5042]

"Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about And gallantly he chickened out."

[@jamesbedwell4715]

@mattiassjoquist5042 “No! I didn’t“

[@douglastawn3257]

Michael Palin’s diaries from the 60s and 70s regularly refer to Eric being more out of pocket than the rest of the Pythons- usually after using his cheque from the last project to buy a French villa or party with rockstars in the Bahamas. It was his money to spend as he wished, of course, but I wonder if Eric’s position of “we’re all strapped for cash” is a little disingenuous. Cleese’s apparent addiction to expensive divorces aside, Palin and Gilliam don’t seem to be languishing in penury…

[@Philsy1971]

It's actually been eight years since Idle & Cleese toured together. I met them both after the Vancouver show.

[@apow3rs]

As a fan of the film Nun’s on the Run when Dame Maggie Smith recently passed halting the Production of Sister Act 3 I began hoping Eric Idle would reprise his gangster counterpart role and make a cross-over where Eric replaced Maggie. It may be a pipe dream but I can see it working and now’s the time. Imagine the songs!

[@JasonBenesh]

I really liked this five minute beer ad with two minutes of Eric Idle wrapped around it.

[@Philbert-s2c]

Or... you could get adblocker.

[@RIUUI007]

It's not that kind of an ad, it's been edited in by the Conan team. Don't you get that? Adblocker wouldn't change anything in this video

[@user-microburst]

Always look at the bright side of life. Great song, and a great truth

[@Karanagi]

This man actually voiced Rincewind!

[@caterpillakilla]

eric idle, just like teachers, shoule be paid more

[@RJHart1214]

Edit: This comment is too long! It's nice to hear Eric being more upbeat here, altho' whether it's just for Conan's or our benefit, I don't know. Neither Eric's 1970s/80s/90s accomplishments nor those of the other Pythons are diminished by it but it's such a shame that the Pythons are at each others throats over money - well Eric vs the others. From the outside we can't separate truth from opinion. Eric recently accused Michael Palin of no longer being nice because of these business problems. But here he says he hasn't seen him for 10 years...and Michael's wife has recently died. It's hard to know what to believe. To quote Eric's friend George Harrison 🎶 Isn't it a pity/Isn't it a shame 🎶 He certainly has not much good to say about Gilliam or Gilliam's daughter, Holly, who he blames for all this which doesn't quite tally with his "There's no right or wrong way to do business". Tho that's understandable, he's not going to want to slag them off on a podcast! (Just on social media haha) It would be nice if they could get together and sort it out, I'm sure that even at their age it would be possible to get on, y'know, a plane and see each other face to face.

[@daruddock]

And what surprised me most by all of this was that I'd heard there was no love lost between Cleese and Gilliam, but John has been very supportive of Terry and his daughter throughout. For that reason I can't be sure how much of what Eric says is genuinely the case, and I guess we'll never know, nor, I suppose, oughtn't we to.

[@el0blaino]

Great conversation. Like you, Conan, I hate to learn a group who I love has internal divisions and unhappiness. I should know better, it’s human nature, but it still wounds even now in my decrepitude. To think that those days are receding into the past, people growing apart - hate the whole business! So I could probably use a good, deep talk on the meaning of life to cheer me up!

[@pendragon6207]

"Yeah but mine will be deep!" :D

[@ftuT]

It's sad they don't get along anymore, truly like mommy and daddy fighting, as Conan puts it, but that's life I guess.

[@easy56wedge]

I was at one of my grandson’s soccer games two weeks ago. He is 7 years old and is quite good. Somehow he got a cut on his knee and it was like the sky was falling. Worse injury ever. I walked over with his dad (my adult son), saw the minuscule cut and said “it’s only a flesh wound.” All the adults nearby burst out laughing. Immediately everyone started talking about Monty Python. My grandson even laughed as he is very familiar with the Pythons and especially The Holy Grail. He went back in the game commenced. Sadly they got beat. LOL!

[@davidcooke8005]

In fairness, the Black Knight was also defeated, but it's his attitude we all love, not his win/ loss ratio.

[@JaimeWulf]

I was a "Python" fan before SNL even came along... IDK why I loved it, it simply resonated with me in my youth...

[@janmichaelcjamisola]

Thank you!

[@bradmodd7856]

Deep comment bro

[@barrycuda3769]

I wonder if Eric remembers doing an entertaining tv advertisement in New Zealand about 1980 for the chocolate "Nudge bar" ?

[@DrakeBurroughs]

Breakaway! "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?"

[@barrycuda3769]

@DrakeBurroughs now look here, are you insinuating something?

[@johnedwards5575]

Thanks for aging me Eric. I saw him and John do a few hours on stage nine years ago now? Turning to my right seeing you standing in a crowd of geriatrics (easily people at their youngest 60, many in their 70s and 80s) with a guitar getting everyone to gleefully sing ‘Sit on my face’, John with a huge smile clapping at the scene, looking down six feet away from me is forever etched in to my memory.

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Eric Idle ain’t Idle fr fr love his demeanor❤

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Dropping a Miller Lite speech for advertising/sponsorship in the middle of an interview is not only so American, it's very Pythonesque! I can imagine them doing this as a sketch (or a skit as my US cousins say). Only they would greatly exaggerate it of course, probably with a really slick looking showman popping up onscreen, in a shiny jacket, played by Eric Idle!

[@csmith1298]

@catcherinthesky I think your comparison will age well. In the meantime, I'm beginning to believe that Idle and Paul Chato may have been separated at birth, since they currently look like twins.

[@lazypyro3510]

My brain: wow what an interview with an absolute legend of comedy! Also my brain: ooooo at 0:08 Sona's coffee mug is reversed in her water glass

[@jaydenandressen]

Big discussions of tactical comedy :D

[@NoName-eo2mv]

Ahhhh I thought Michael palin and Eric would still be close , he does seem like a genuinely nice man

[@cjraymond8827]

I've seen a couple of interviews of Cleese and I get the impression he was like one of those members of a band that made it big and he thought he was superior to the others and wanted to break away from the band to do a solo career, all while the rest of the band resents him for destroying a successful group. He was quoted as saying he was done with the TV series (after only 3 seasons) and might consider movies but that's all. That seems to be, perhaps, a source of the tension.

[@curtis8966]

The meaning of life is my favorite Monty Python movie

[@bencrozier]

I really wish Conan could bring Python together and create peace between these GOATS. Eric made it quite clear that what is missing is for these guys just to get together in the same room. Hopefully, God and the universe can make this happen.

[@Jonny-o3l]

Berthold's looking great for an old man. Love you Eric.

[@rtl4x4]

"The name's DESMOND, mate! Now GET a GRIP!"

[@thomaslabat]

Conan the TV host is no more. He has ceased to exist. He is an ex-Conan. Because now he created a podcast, and we're glad he did.

[@niyanlan8928]

Great, I found my cat, thank you

[@Rushmore222]

Eric looks quite a bit like an older David Frost.

[@elfboy29]

Makes me sad he hasn't seen Palin or Cleese for so long.

[@Tommyr]

Such a legend! Long live Monty Python!

[@treasonabledoubt7251]

I thought there was a giant, nasty white worm floating in Sona's cup of water for a split second.

[@berniesrockeuphoria]

Listening to stories about how the Pythons got along so mirrors the Beatles relationships. Everything is hunky dory until the business (money) end comes into play.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

It's interesting to me that the Beatles had similar arguments: very few over music and many over MONEY.

[@KenLieck]

But most groups seem to have them much earlier and at this age they're realizing that there's more to life and making up...

[@scepteredisle]

This is Wreck-Gar from Transformers The Movie btw

[@jeff111458]

For the record, Eric, you were always my favorite Python!

[@raygiannamore]

Younger people have no idea what they missed if they haven't seen the Pythons.

[@KenLieck]

Well, that makes sense.

[@mclovin8739]

Why do all podcasters wear headphones and have a huge mic in front of their face? They are literally next to each other in the same small room, 1 or 2 small mics is enough surely???

[@andrewericdavison]

Nope, mics for each is way better for sound quality. Headphones in a situation like this are optional, but usually you get a bit of your own audio in your headphone mix (along with everyone else’s voices) so you can hear live how well you’re being picked up by the mic, if you’re being too loud, too close, etc. and make adjustments.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Without Monty Python... there's no Second City, there's no SNL, there's no Kids in the Hall, there's no Mr Show, there's no In Living Color, there's no Chappelle Show, there's no Who's Line is it Anyway, etc etc etc

[@Harani66]

i didn't understand the bit about Miller Lite ...

[@shiftstart]

Hi, I like to buy an argument.

[@VisiblyJelly]

Always look on the bright side of life is my favourite song

[@W0LFRAVEN-]

What an absolute Legend

[@KairuHakubi]

So apparently the disagreement is over whether to continue using the manager they had back in the old days, or use Terry Gilliam's daughter, and the rest of the surviving Pythons think she's doing a swell job and I guess Eric would rather not change horses so close to the end of the race, as it were. I don't really get how that's worth fighting over, can't they use different managers? it's not like they're doing anything in particular _together_ anymore.

[@pgbollwerk]

Eric is such a delight.

[@paulthomas8262]

Eric Idle is a true master. David Frost was totally useless as a comic. Pretty much nothing funny about David frost, but that is what got him serious interviews e.g. Nixon.

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

The Holy Grail is by far the funniest movie ever been produced,

[@bikkiikun]

Unfortunately John Cleese has more and more become a git. That doesn't take away from his past as a comedic genious, it's just the person he has turned into, the nasty bitter old man whom they used to make fun of. And I imagine a lot can be attributed to poor martrimonious choices. If he is so unable to retain a partner, he shouldn't have married in the first place.

[@cdarklock]

But humanity IS an infinite number of monkeys, and one of us already wrote Shakespeare.

[@Aeidotronics]

I hope they see each other.

[@GenghisVern]

the Lennon-McCartney line was interesting

[@rossreynolds5153]

It has always been assumed that Idle is the bad guy in all of this, but perhaps he isn't. I really don't know and I don't think any of us do. The two smartest guys in the group are no longer with us so we may never know.

[@chel3SEY]

As usual, O'Brien invites guests on so they can sit there and listen to him monopolise the discussion.

[@renslo689]

Eric Spam Egg and Chips Idle

[@dave3076]

Cheers.

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

Life of Brian is the film that gets all the praise, but I've always preferred Holy Grail.

[@kusti1818]

That commercial break was pure crap! Rest of it is GOLD!

[@freakshowfilmfestival3591]

All he has to do is National Lampoon's European Vacation 2, and he'll be back on top again.

[@illuminotmereloaded6896]

Rutland Weekend Television for the win. Rutland 5-0 from downtown... Biggleswade. Rest in peace Neil Innes. There are no coincidences, but sometimes the pattern is more obvious.

[@jasonmurdoc9533]

Which disagreement? they had a huge falling out like 3 weeks ago

[@ItsDeffoScott]

They haven't met up in close to a decade. I'm pretty sure that hatchet is not going to be buried.

[@ge2623]

"Intercourse the penguin!!"

[@EightPieceBox]

I love Conan, but I'm certain I would always side with Smigel on those arguments.

[@rztricky]

I feel happy! I feel happy! I feel…

[@stevenpiontkowski220]

How big is da river cat?

[@fredievinson7944]

Eric lookin' kinda thin...but having survived Pancreatic C looking like anything and breathing is ok

[@anodyne57]

Eric Idle is Monty Python and no more than any of the others.

[@cheeseman417]

I always thought while watching the show for many years and of course the movies the two real leaders of the Python group were John Cleese and Eric Idol, because Graham Chapman… He wasn’t really that funny to be honest but the other ones were carrying the whole show