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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
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Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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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.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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