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Eric Idle
English
Comedian
Born:
Mar 29
,
1943
Funny
Life
Love
Me
People
You
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I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
Eric Idle
Life
Health
Good
Good Health
Happy
Grateful
My Life
Blessed
Good Friends
Able
Share
Am
Been
Friends
Very
Rewarded
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Eric Idle
You
Getting Older
Drop
Older
Dreadful
Hat
About
Cry
Getting
Thing
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle
Life
Comedy
Try
Life Is A
Share
Tragedy
Experiencing
Anything
Watching
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
Eric Idle
Love
Funny
You
Together
Mother
Abandonment
Looking
Become
Think
Kid
Insane
John
Attention
Make
Because
Terry
His
Person
Same
Psychologists
Depressions
Us
Initially
I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.
Eric Idle
Walk
Old
Pool
Pretty
Like
Exercises
Underwater
Bloke
Fit
Swim
We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.
Eric Idle
Money
More
Make
Discovered
Less
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric Idle
Minister
Give
Lift
Him
Anyone
Transport
Appeal
You look just like you!
Eric Idle
You
Like
Look
Just
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
Life
Saying
Day
Me
Words
My Life
Monty
Monty Python
Bad
Someone
Python
Without
Passes
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
Eric Idle
Funny
People
Every
Television
Out
Week
Idea
Like
Audience
Doing
Up
Being
Grew
Regularly
Gang
Shows
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
Eric Idle
Time
People
Own
Other
Out
My Own
Put
Stuff
Read
Because
Limited
Go
Just
Lame
Scripts
Should
Help
Why
Amount
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
Eric Idle
Try
Bounce
Audience
Audiences
Listen
Different
Them
Sapiens
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Eric Idle
Library
Age
Living
Our
Once
Nobody
Dead
George
George Bush
Irony
Gets
Anymore
Bush
Now
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
Eric Idle
Funny
Me
People
Comedy
Funny People
Laugh
Seems
Particular
Dead
Still
Lot
Very
Just
Should
Reason
Albums
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
Eric Idle
Funny
Survival
People
Speak
School
Comedy
Naughty
Some People
Think
Bat
Spending
Some
Gene
Soon
Became
Years
Off
Boarding
Boarding School
Right
I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.
Eric Idle
Good
Films
Bad
Good Ones
More
Always
Than
Found
Enjoyable
I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.
Eric Idle
Win
Thrilled
Tony
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
Would
Able
Studios
Executives
How
Afford
Artists
Paid
Ever
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle
Truth
People
Think
Python
Like
How
American
Really
English
English People
Element
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