Eric Idle

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• I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
  • On his childhood years in a boarding school. The Pythons' Autobiography of the Pythons' (2003) by Bob McCabe.

• Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."
  • Answering the question "Why did you do two episodes in German?" on an HBO March 1998 Python reunion special.

• Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

• American Beer is a lot like making love on a canoe - it's fucking close to water.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl