Two of the show’s highlight are the Act II opening song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” which was borrowed from ...

The Monty Python founding member discusses the Tony-winning musical’s evolution from cult film to global phenomenon as its ...

Eric Idle won’t complain about all the flattery Monty Python has gotten this year. In fact, it doesn’t even surprise him. “It is amazing how Python just went ’round the world and seemed to have ...

John Cleese and Eric Idle head to the late-night couch to sing a very important song. After their successful, influential TV show “Monty Python‘s Flying Circus,” five feature films and a series of ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 50 years since the founding of the comedy troupe that gave us Silly Walks, Dead Parrots, Hell’s Grannies, the Argument Clinic and Sam Peckinpah’s Salad Days, to ...

A few years ago, Eric Idle told Rolling Stone he was working on his “posthumous memoirs.” He’s since had a change of heart. “The only trouble with posthumous memoirs is you don’t get paid ’til later,” ...

Eric Idle has exposed a rift in the Pythons, complaining that the troupe’s back catalogue doesn’t bring him as much money as people think. The comic criticised his former colleague Terry Gilliam and ...

Eric Idle has been funny for a very long time. He gained fame almost 50 years ago playing pompous TV hosts and leering idiots as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. While the original BBC TV ...