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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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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 interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.
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I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
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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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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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