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	Eric Idle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor and film director, as well as an author and guitarist/songwriter.
		Idle had already refused to be senior boy in the school cadet force, as he was a keen supporter for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and had participated in the yearly Aldermaston march.
		Eric Idle played one of the four members of the pre-fab-four "group" The Rutles, which was an affectionate spoof of The Beatles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Idle (2170 words)

	Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And Eric Idle hit on it again, in one of the more relaxed moments of Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python: A Rather Stupid Evening of Skits and Songs, which concluded a three-month tour of the US with a stop at the Wang Theatre a week ago Thursday.
		Comic actors like Idle, Cleese, and Chapman had a mortal lock on their veddy British characters: Cleese's imperturbability, as though controlling his character from a distance; Chapman's befuddlement, a character trapped in behavior he doesn't quite understand; Idle's comic timing and musical line readings.
		Idle himself made a couple of wonderful appearances in drag -- one as a bewigged judge who after a session in court removes his robes to reveal full corset, garters, and stockings, another as the Parton-like Dolly Taylor, in a long sequined red dress and blonde wig.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/07/06/ERIC_IDLE.html (725 words)

	Eric Idle biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eric Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham on 29th March 1943.
		Idle quickly rose in the Footlight ranks, working with David Gooderson, Richard Eyre and Humphrey Barclay, who would later help in the formation of the Python team.
		Idle had a hand in re-writing some of the songs to include contemporary references (including some about the then US President Ronald Reagan).
	www.geocities.com /fang_club/Idle_biog.html (869 words)

	Pythonland - Eric Idle.
		Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham, England.
		These include "Eric the Half-a-Bee", "The Philosophers' Song" and probably his most recognised hit "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", which was written for the closing scene of the film Life of Brian, sung from the crosses during the mass crucifixion, as something of an antidote to Death.
		Idle's earliest solo work was his own BBC Radio One show titled Radio Five (pre-dating the real Radio Five station by eighteen years).
	www.pythonland.com /bioidle.php (1656 words)

	Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This month Idle is taking his music on the road for his first solo tour, "Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python: A Rather Stupid Evening of Skits and Songs." His sizable ensemble of musicians, stagehands, and costumers will pull into the Wang Center next Thursday, just two nights after making their Carnegie Hall debut.
		The tour follows the release of the CD Eric Idle Sings Monty Python (Restless), which was recorded last year in-concert at LA's J. Paul Getty Center with a group of musicians led by West Coast jazz and pop fixture Tom Scott.
		Idle adopts a number of personae during the show, from rock star Quigley to an Australian wine expert to a cunnilingus fiend -- all of whom sing in his accented, nasal voice, which dances in playful twists of pitch and phrase.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/06/22/ERIC_IDLE.html (1347 words)

	Eric Idle Photos - Eric Idle News - Eric Idle Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor and film director, as well as an author and guitarist/songwriter.
		Eric is an accomplished songwriter, having composed and performed many of the Pythons' most famous comic pieces, including "Eric The Half-A-Bee", "The Philosophers' Song", "Galaxy Song" and "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”.
		Eric: Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge It’s a new song, it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.
	www.tv.com /eric-idle/person/19156/summary.html (819 words)

	Eric Idle
		Eric stayed there for twelve years, until he was seventeen, keeping up his spirits with secret night swimming parties with girls from the adjoining school.
		Eric Idle: "That's why Python isn't like this huge thing that comes out of nowhere, it's this froth of ongoing shows, a bubble that got bigger, where everything else isn't remembered so well, often for historical reasons like we were in colour, which was a huge leap.
		Eric Idle: "Everybody was mad, but in a slightly different way, each had his own element of madness.
	orangecow.org /pythonet/eric-idle.html (4067 words)

	The Eric Idle Picture Pages
		Eric Idle is a comedian, actor and film director, as well as an author and accomplished guitarist/songwriter.
		Idle's father had been in the RAF and survived the Second World War, only to be killed in a car crash shortly afterwards.
		Idle maintains that boredom drove him to work hard and he eventually won a place at Cambridge, where he met other members of the groundbreaking British comedy team Monty Python.
	www.superiorpics.com /eric_idle (511 words)

	Pythonline > Plugs > Idlewild > About The Editor
		Eric Idle is the sixth nicest member of the old Monty Python group.
		Eric Idle, while not being necessarily the nicest of the Monty Python group was born in the North of England during World War Two.
		Eric Idle was born in the North of England and etc etc Cambridge.
	www.pythonline.com /plugs/idle/index.shtml (584 words)

	Amazon.com: The Road to Mars: Books: Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition to The Road to Mars and Monty Python scripts, Eric Idle is the author of the SF/fantasy novel Hello Sailor (1975), the play Pass the Butler (1982), and the children's book The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat.
		Eric Idle tries very hard here to be funny while offering deep insights into the meaning and function of comedy, but unfortunately doesn't succeed at being either funny or meaningful.
		Idle weaves the story of two comedians, Alex and Lewis, who are trying to make it in a futuristic world of greed and sexuality.
	www.amazon.com /Road-Mars-Eric-Idle/dp/0375703128 (1986 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Eric Idle: ...presents The Rutland Isles
		It's familiar territory for Idle; he played numerous investigative journalists and documentary hosts in Python skits, and his droning, nasal voice is well suited to the material.
		Idle uses his Rutland Isles as a framework, tying together a broad and disparate mix of silly skits and "funny" (note the quotes) songs.
		Likewise, once Idle leaves Paranoia and visits "The Overly Friendly Isles", the humor kicks up a notch, even though it's almost entirely sex jokes and silly wordplay (which should tell you how odious some of the Paranoia stuff is).
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=3255524592220084 (497 words)

	IGN: An Interview with Eric Idle
		When Eric called me, he asked me if there was any way possible that we could conduct the interview via e-mail.
		IDLE: We taped the last show, Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python, in Washington D.C. and I spent ages editing it and Warners bought it and it sits in the same vault with Can't Buy Me Lunch.
		IDLE: I got the opportunity to do some serious acting in Alan Smithee for the director – but he was removed and it was all cut out.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/455/455577p1.html (891 words)

	Eric Idle - Biography - AOL Music
		A founding member of the renowned Monty Python comedy troupe, Eric Idle was born March 29, 1943, in South Shields, England; when he was just two years old, his father, a member of the Royal Air Force, died in an automobile crash.
		After attending boarding school in Wolverhampton, Idle studied English at Cambridge University, where he also served as president of the famed Footlights comedy group in 1964.
		In 1999, Idle inexplicably accepted a supporting role on the misbegotten Brooke Shields sitcom Suddenly Susan; after the show was abruptly canceled, the following year he mounted a solo tour in support of his album Eric Idle Sings Monty Python.
	music.aol.com /artist/eric-idle/89082/biography (379 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Eric Idle's silly, wonderful tour - Mar 8, 2005
		Idle has a small supporting on-stage cast, plus a small crew, all packed into a pair of tour buses.
		A postscript details how Idle and his composing partner John Du Prez came to adapt "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as a musical.
		It may be an afterthought, but the story also a grace note in the delightful comic opera that Eric Idle composed as he traveled America's highways.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/08/review.idle/index.html (497 words)

	Eric Idle @ Filmbug
		Eric Idle is an actor, director, producer, songwriter and author, but is perhaps best known as one of the most lovable and memorable members of the groundbreaking British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus.
		Idle attended Cambridge University, where he served as president of the renowned Footlights Revue.
		Idle will next be seen in Ron Shelton's Hollywood Homicide starring Harrison Ford and will be heard as the narrator of Tommy O'Haver's Ella Enchanted.
	www.filmbug.com /db/27238 (320 words)

	The Road to Mars - Eric Idle
		Idle actually writes fairly well, which is part of what makes the book so frustrating: he writes well and leads us nowhere.
		When Idle concentrates on the plot the book occasionally becomes entertaining, and he has one true success with a particularly nasty and intelligent mechanical bug, but overall he falls far short of even Red Dwarf standards for amusing science fiction.
		Eric Idle was one of the original members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/idlee/mars.htm (1090 words)

	Eric Idle // Idleized Heaven // Version 10.0
		Eric will be at the Borders bookstore on State St. on April 21st for a meet-and-greet to help promote the coming of Spamalot back to Chicago at the Cadillac Theatre.
		Eric was there for some photocalls and to launch the event, and even cut a ribbon in front of the theatre doors.
		Eric is naturally very prominent, as he did a good majority of the songs with help from John Du Prez and Neil Innes.
	www.eric-idle.com (9860 words)

	Eric Idle - song writer for film and TV
		Eric Idle holding the chair as resident song-writer on the team, is responsible for a good many of these ditties.
		Idle sang many of the Python songs too, and he also plays guitar.
		Eric Idle later got together with composer John DuPrez to adapt the "Holy Grail" material, adding old and new songs including "Bright Side of Life" to create a Broadway musical version of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" under the title "Monty Python's Spamalot".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Eric-Idle.htm (541 words)

	Amazon.com: Eric Idle Sings Monty Python: Music: Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You shouldn't look at this as a failure because Eric is only 1/6 of Monty Python, in fact it should be veiwed as a success because of that.
		Eric is a very talented and wonderful man, who's heart is in the right place.
		Eric did well, but he's only one man- he could never on his own live up to what all six have done together.
	www.amazon.com /Eric-Idle-Sings-Monty-Python/dp/B00004SBNF (1181 words)

	Amazon.ca: Idle, Eric: Personal Best: DVD: Graham Chapman,John Cleese,Terry Gilliam,Eric Idle,Terry Jones,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's only fitting that Eric Idle, if not the funniest of the Pythons, then certainly, by his own estimation, "the third tallest," launch this new-to-DVD collection of favorite sketches as selected by each of the troupe's surviving members.
		As Idle himself notes in the amusing, newly filmed prologue featuring a series of faux Idle on Idle interviews, thanks to DVD, Python's "particular brand of cheap sketches will always be available for recycling." Sampled here are Idle's memorable gallery of unctuous talk show hosts ("World Forum"), supremely annoying blokes ("Mr.
		Also of note are some of Idle's most memorable musical contributions, including "Never Be Rude to an Arab" and his rendition of "The Lumberjack Song," both from the classic Monty Python Live from the Hollywood Bowl concert film.
	www.amazon.ca /Idle-Eric-Personal-Graham-Chapman/dp/B0009ZE9CG (1100 words)

	Daily Llama - SPAM - Eric Idle Books
		(Eric Idle's first children's book; based on the poems, drawings, and writings of Edward Lear; story is about an owl and a pussycat who go on an incredible journey to rescue to the Bong tree from the evil Fire Lord; there is also an audio version of this book)
		(Eric Idle's second novel; it is about the nature of humour and tells the story of two comedians on tour in the 23rd century with a robot "programmed with the entire history of comedy," when galactic war breaks out; the title is a bow to the Hope-Crosby Road movies)
		(Eric Idle's journal which he kept while touring America performing his Greedy Bastard Tour revue show in late 2003; the journal covers all 80 days of the tour, with Eric offering observations, memories, and humorous tales from the road; the 256-page book includes a 16-page color photo insert)
	www.dailyllama.com /spam/books/idle.html (808 words)

	Eric Idle \| Biography (born 1943)
		With his amusingly anguished face, startled eyes, mobile body and deadly serious approach to lunacy, it's surprising that Britain's brown-haired Eric Idle has, of all the Monty Python gang, stayed out of the limelight for so long.
		In the 90s, though, he starred in films on both sides of the Atlantic, although it was a little too late for international stardom to claim him.
		In 1990 Idle's long, lugubrious features made a very acceptable comedy team with plump-cheeked Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run, in which Idle's brand of panic was seen to good advantage.
	www.leninimports.com /eric_idle.html (468 words)

	Saturday Night Live: Eric Idle/Bob Dylan - TV.com
		The show joked about Buck Henry insisting to Lorne, "I can go on," but in fact, Henry was on standby in case Idle really couldn't perform.
		It appeared uncredited as the second episode on one of the two Eric Idle tapes.
		Eric's an actor, I just thought that this sore throat was an attempt to get attention.
	www.tv.com /saturday-night-live/eric-idlebob-dylan/episode/116390/summary.html (612 words)

	Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Idle Lived in Oldham and Wallasey and was sent to Royal School Wolverhampton in 1952.
		Idle was invited into the Footlights the following year and met John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
		Idle was divorced in 1978 and remarried 1981 (Tanya, whom he had met during his "Saturday Night Live" time)
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Bio/Idle.html (337 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| Eric Idle: "The Rutland Isles"
		Ex-Monty Python star Idle visits tropical islands that have been spared by English documentary makers in brown shorts.
		It's been 20 years since Monty Python's last movie, "The Meaning of Life," and ex-Python star Eric Idle hasn't modified his comedic style one whit.
		Idle did a short-lived TV series called "Rutland Weekend Television" in the '60s and also "The Rutles," the first spoof music documentary.
	archive.salon.com /audio/music/2003/04/16/eric_idle (204 words)

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