Eric Idle
Eric Idle
Eric Idleis an English comedian, actor, voice actor, author, singer-songwriter, musician, writer and comedic composer. Idle is a member of the English surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of The Rutles and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 March 1943
kissing strange
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.
trying
I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.
I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
giving
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
comedy
Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.
comedy
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.
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.
hate i-hate animation
I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.
choices
Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want...
inspirational funny life
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
film found enjoyable
I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.
The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.
lying people telling-the-truth
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
soccer baseball nice
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.