Monty Python’s Eric Idle: ‘I’ve survived cancer and crucifixion’ | Engalvo
had on the generation growing up in 1970s England but he was surprised to learn about his bizarre role in my early sex education – or miseducation. Idle wrote as a spin-off to his Rutland Weekend Television sketch series. Aged 10, I nicked it from my big brother’s bookshelf and pored over the naughty bits, especially a section entitledand a model adopting dozens of positions in which it was patently impossible to have sex, all allegedly having received the papal tick of approval.
“We’d read out to each other and if it made us laugh it would go in a show and if it didn’t make us laugh, we’d sell it to the Two Ronnies,” Idle says.Nudge Nudge sketch“They sent it back because if you read it on the page it’s not funny: ‘Know what I mean. Nudge, nudge. Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge. Say no more. Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge …’ Where’s the joke in that?”
Eric Idle penned many of Monty Python’s most memorable tunes, including The Bruces’ Philosophers Song.It was at Cambridge University that he met Cleese and Graham Chapman and shortly afterwards, Palin, Gilliam and Terry Jones, completing the team that was to unleash Monty Python on an unsuspecting public.
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