Eric Idle is struggling to see the bright side of his estrangement from John Cleese. In an interview on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast, the Monty Python star reflected on his public feud ...

Idle, 82, revealed details about the pair’s final conversation on Monday following news of the double homicide. “Rob Reiner ...

Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Terry Gilliam speak at the panel discussion at the "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" special screening during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Stephen Lovekin The incendiary ...

Eric Idle said he spoke to Rob Reiner just hours before he and his wife Michelle were killed in their LA, Brentwood home.

Even if you’ve watched Monty Python’s 1979 Biblical satire, “Life of Brian,” a skillion-and-one times and thus know by heart the song for which Python member Eric Idle named his “sortabiography” – ...

Editor's Note: This segment was rebroadcast on October 1, 2019, after "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" was released in paperback. That audio is available here. Monty Python ...

Eric Idle has always been one for dramatic irony. But the Monty Python co-creator never could have imagined his art would end up reflecting his life in such an earth-shattering way. "I was writing a ...

Monty Python’s Eric Idle has written a memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. The book, in which Idle recounts his adventures as a legendary comedian and actor in projects ...

A few years ago, Eric Idle told Rolling Stone he was working on his “posthumous memoirs.” He’s since had a change of heart. “The only trouble with posthumous memoirs is you don’t get paid ’til later,” ...

Of all the times Eric Idle has performed “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”—perhaps the jauntiest sing-along ever about facing death by crucifixion—the most memorable came during the Closing ...