Eric Idle
- 81 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, composer and comedian
Press clippings
John Cleese challenges Eric Idle on Monty Python's finances
John Cleese has responded to Eric Idle in the growing row over Monty Python's earnings, coming out in support of Terry Gilliam's daughter, Holly.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2024Monty Python star Eric Idle: 'I'm still working at 80 for financial reasons'
Creator of Spamalot says he sold home last year and that comedy troupe he co-founded in 1969 'is a disaster'.
The Guardian, 12th February 2024Monty Python And The Holy Grail returns to cinemas
1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail is returning to cinemas in February to celebrate its 48 and a half year anniversary. Some of the screenings will be quote-a-long editions.
British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2024Monty Python's Spamalot is heading back to Broadway
Eric Idle's Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical returns to Broadway this autumn in a new production directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
What's On Stage, 2nd August 2023The neutering of Monty Python
Trans activists are even more censorious than fundamentalist Christians, writes Simon Evans.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 24th May 2023Life Of Brian stage show to launch in 2024
John Cleese and Eric Idle have been recently working on the stage show version of Life Of Brian, and have now confirmed it'll launch in London in 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 19th May 2023Eric Idle is tired of comedy giants crying "Censorship"
Little more than a month after John Cleese announced that he was partnering with "British Fox News" to wage war on "cancel culture," Eric Idle has joined the overwrought and exhausting comedy culture wars with his own opinions on the multi-millionaire comedy legends who cry "censorship" every time there's a negative reaction to their material. Monty Python is unofficially a house divided.
Keegan Kelly, Cracked, 22nd November 2022Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer
Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams - and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life.
Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, 3rd October 2022Eric Idle: I survived pancreatic cancer
About three years ago I was incredibly lucky: I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Lucky? One of the most lethal forms of cancer, how on earth was that lucky? Well, because it was found incredibly early.
Eric Idle, Time Magazine, 21st September 2022Goodbye Baz: how stars celebrated the life of Barry Cryer
Friends, fans and family of Barry Cryer gathered in London's West End last night to remember the great gagsmith at a star-studded memorial gig.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th June 2022