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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.
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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.
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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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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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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 don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
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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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Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is beware. This is not a wine for drinking this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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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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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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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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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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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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