Monty Python’s Eric Idle is still "Always Looking on the Bright Side of Life." He’s out with a "sortabiography" and joins us.

Will Sloan talks to Monty Python veteran Eric Idle about his long career and his new "pseudo-radio play," which features actors like Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and Tracey Ullman.

The heyday of Monty Python’s comedy may be over, but we’re living through a golden age of Monty Python members sniping at each other in interviews. After Eric Idle’s Twitter feud with John ...

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with comedian Eric Idle, founding member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Even as a child, Eric Idle loved writing. So much so, that he planned to become a journalist. “I think I’d always say journalist because it seemed like a writing thing to do,” he says, “but I had no ...

To borrow a phrase from Paddy Chayefsky, Eric Idle is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. The founding member of Monty Python, 80, has taken to X in recent days to clear the air ...

Eric Idle isn’t a stand-up, but his comic sensibilities and timing are better than any ten comedians. He has experience galore thanks to working with a little sketch comedy group–Monty Python ...

Ex-Python John Cleese, in particular, made a splash recently in the movie ”A Fish Called Wanda.” So where`s Eric Idle, one of the biggest of the Python originals?

Eric Idle is writing a memoir, and Monty Python fans can guess the title: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.” “We used to be babe magnets. Now we’re fridge magnets,” Idle said in a ...

The Monty Python Reunion: Eric Idle on Why He's Glad There Are Only 10 Shows By Devon Maloney July 1, 2014 eric-idle-mony-python-comedy-show-london-entertainment.jpg ...

Tech journalist Kara Swisher interviewed legendary British comedian Eric Idle on Monday, where he spoke extensively about the state of comedy in his heyday and said he hated conservatives.