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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
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Erik Idle
Erick Idle
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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Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.
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