Like millions of people in my generation I discovered Monty Python as a teenager in the 1980's staying up late on Sunday nights watching MTV. Even though the BBC produced thousands of hours of comedy only the best ended up in America such as Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Young Ones. Each member of the Python sketch comedy team had their own voice and it was often immediately recognizable. None of them seemed to enjoy themselves on the show as much as Eric Idle.

Eric Idle is best known as...

Flux

SUICIDEGIRL

Georgia, USA

NOV 18, 2003 05:05 PM

does this mean that he got a free membership?
does this mean Eric Idle has seen me naked?

hairstreak

United Kingdom

September 2003

NOV 18, 2003 06:18 PM

Flux said:
does this mean Eric Idle has seen me naked?

Click here to revenge yourself on him, Flux

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Illinois, USA

NOV 18, 2003 06:52 PM

I hope he's seen me nakey too!

TheHood

Winooski, VT

January 2003

NOV 18, 2003 07:47 PM

I saw his show last month. It was okay, but most of it wasn't terribly impressive. He seemed to like my quoting of his Transformers: The Movie lines, though.

Jthrak

Orlando, FL

January 2003

NOV 18, 2003 11:12 PM

eric idle is the king of timing in comedy. a genius, a fucking genius...

[Edited on Nov 18, 2003 by RevMcG]

ebin

Mexico

March 2003

NOV 19, 2003 12:53 AM

BRING OUT YA DEAD!!!!!!!!!!

"Boing"

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK

August 2002

NOV 19, 2003 01:02 AM

The Road to Mars = most pleasurable book ever. The opposite of gravity is levity!

Jeff_Fries

Humptulips, WA

September 2003

NOV 19, 2003 01:26 AM

Wow. Didn't expect that to be lame.

Note: Eric Idle bombed pretty bad on Real Time w/ Bill Maher.

Lorelei

SUICIDEGIRL

Tennessee, USA

NOV 19, 2003 06:56 AM

spam spam spam eggs sausage and spam

eric idle

Lenore

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

NOV 19, 2003 09:53 AM

As I was reading, I noticed that I was using a british accent for Idle in my head.

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

NOV 19, 2003 10:56 AM

Lenore said:
As I was reading, I noticed that I was using a british accent for Idle in my head.

Me, too. ^_^

He's so adorable, too. I wish I could pinch his cheeks.

Caz

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

NOV 19, 2003 12:12 PM

Whoo.. me loves Monty Python I do!
Those guys made my crazy friends what comedians they are today, and also helped me make friends thru mutual Python appreciation. I owe those people so much, and I love Eric!

poptard

United Kingdom

November 2003

NOV 19, 2003 12:44 PM

i wasn't though, witht heenglish accect, well i'm english so that wouldn't make scence

ah well, eric idle is a god!!!!!!

"you luck-keey luck-keey bastard"

Rumford

Portland, OR

March 2003

NOV 19, 2003 06:35 PM

thanks SG, great interviews with incredibly talented people like Idle are always a pleasure to read.

keep 'em coming

faeryRAE

Milwaukee, WI

August 2003

NOV 19, 2003 06:46 PM

Eric idle is awesome. I saw his last tour a few years ago and it was great. his show here was cancelled which sucks. I been a huge fan since i was 10 years old after seeing the quest for the holy grail. His book The road to Mars is pretty good. HE IS GOD! the best python *wink wink nudge nudge* He is such an adorable handsome man!

junkeragentseed

I'm lost

May 2003

NOV 19, 2003 09:26 PM

Daniel Robert Epstein said:
Eric Idle is best known as Sir Robin who ran away, the man who loved the machine that goes beep and of course as the ghost who lived in Stuart Pankin's attic in the sitcom Nearly Departed.

i can't believe no one has obsessively corrected this yet.

it was the machine that goes PING! and it was michael palin who loved it so much.

brynji

Bloomington, IN

December 2002

NOV 19, 2003 09:30 PM

Eric Idle is like a father to me. Monty Python was such a groundbreaking project, comedy now would not be the same without it.

Fractal

SUICIDEGIRL

Louisiana, USA

NOV 19, 2003 09:32 PM

I saw Eric Idle perform at Carnege Hall a few years ago. It was totally random, I dropped my friend Hippy off there and was using the payphone outside the theatre and someone walked up to me and offered my other friend and I his extra tickets. I said I didn't have any money and he walked away. A few minutes later, the guy came back over and said that it would be no fun to watch the show alone, so we should join him. It was a great fucking show.

poptard

United Kingdom

November 2003

NOV 20, 2003 11:14 AM

also i can't belive that no one has of course mentioned his cameo in transformers the movie!!!

he was the voice of the juck robots leader, eric idle with a computer voice

G.

Alisa

SUICIDEGIRL

Ohio, USA

NOV 20, 2003 10:08 PM

one of THE MOST funniest guys in the whole world. i loved him The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen(sp?). he's consistently cracked me up in everything i see him in. but that movie was my favorite. the funniest guys are so the hottest

edited to say that this is too weird: i'm sitting here debating whether to turn in and i'm flipping through the channels. and there's this really bad show on called suddenly susan on and who do i see but the man himself: erick idle. now i have to watch it just cause he's on it. and yes... he's funny as hell already.

[Edited on Nov 20, 2003 by Alisa]

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