Because Pembroke was men only, in 1962 he joined the Pembroke Players, the school’s theater program, ostensibly to meet women. Idle attended Pembroke College, a constituent school of Cambridge University. His comedy debut came courtesy of a future Python. Here are some of Idle’s biggest and best revelations from the book.ġ. Idle finally wrote a memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (named after the song he wrote and performed for Life of Brian). And after that, he created the somehow savage but also affectionate Beatles send-up band the Rutles. But he did more than that, writing and acting for all those Python comedy records and movies such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Life of Brian. Eric Idle would still be a comedy legend if all he’d ever done was Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–1974), still one of the greatest and definitely among the most influential sketch-comedy shows ever.
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