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1 day ago · Monty Python’s Eric Idle Tells All About ‘Spamalot,’ George Harrison, Mike Nichols and Life at 81. When Eric Idle, 81, was packing up to move recently (an experience he calls “Downsize Abbey”), he found a notebook chronicling the years-long creation of his and John Du Prez’s musical Spamalot, a hit on Broadway in 2004 and again in 2023.
17 hours ago · Eric Idle and Mike Nichols during 71st Annual Drama League Awards at Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic. The Spamalot Diaries is dedicated to the late Mike Nichols, who ...
2 days ago · Eric Idle "shouldn't be alive".The 81-year-old comedian underwent surgery after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, and was thankful the disease was caught early as he now enjoys ...
22 hours ago · Eric Idle. Photo by Lily Idle. The standard line on the Pythons is that they were the comedic equivalent of the Beatles. In terms of chronology, there was a kind of passing of the karmic torch: the first episode of the Python television series appeared on BBC1 days after the release of the Fab Four’s final album, “Abbey Road.”
5 days ago · Interview: Eric Idle on His Spamalot Diaries, Why the Pythons Stopped the Remake, and Surviving Pancreatic Cancer. The icon of British comedy discusses his new making-of sorta memoir.
1 day ago · Eric Idle, who has a new book out all about the making of Spamalot, recently chatted with the AARP. When asked about his friend, former Beatle and Life of Brian backer George Harrison, Idle shared that the former Beatle once gave him some invaluable life advice. “He cheered me up when my first marriage was breaking up by telling me I was ...
1 day ago · Eric Idle "shouldn't be alive". The 81-year-old comedian underwent surgery after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, and was thankful the disease was caught early as he now enjoys "every moment" of his life. Asked if having cancer had changed him, he told The Times newspaper: "Oh, I shouldn't be alive.
