Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin later became members of the hugely successful Monty Python comedy troupe.

Both Gary and Michelle Lineker make a ' blink-and-you'll-miss-them ' appearance as diners leaving a restaurant in the 1993 Eric Idle film Splitting Heirs.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

" Eric Idle also later dismissed the film although remembered his participation fondly.

With fellow Pythons already aware of his sexual orientation, Eric Idle replied, " We've found out who it was and we've had him shot.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

* Eric Idle – Mr Cheeky, Stan / Loretta, Harry the Haggler, Culprit woman who casts first stone, Intensely dull youth, Otto, Gaoler's assistant, Mr Frisbee III.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

The film would not have been made without former Beatle and Python fan George Harrison, who set up Handmade Films to help fund it at a cost of £ 3 million ( a move later described by Eric Idle as the " world's most expensive cinema ticket ").

Eric Idle can be heard to concur, adding, " It ’ s a heresy ".

The scenes shown included the shepherds gathering for Jesus's birth, which would have been at the very start of the movie ; a segment showing the kidnap of Pilate's wife ( a large woman played by John Case ); a scene introducing hardline Zionist Otto, leader of the Judean People's Front ( played by Eric Idle ); and a scene in which Pilate's wife alerts Otto to Brian's capture.

It mostly contains scenes from the movie with brief linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

Cousins Peter Oundjian ( Caramoor's Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor ) and Eric Idle joined forces once again for a double performance of the oratorio in July 2007.

Terry Jones ( behind counter ), Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and the Vikings in the Monty Python sketch " Spam "

Bruces ' Philosophers Song ( Bruces ' Song ) was a popular Monty Python song written by Eric Idle, and was a feature of the group's stage appearances and its recordings.

His mother ( Eric Idle ) reads the joke, at first believing it to be a suicide note, and also dies laughing.

They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report, whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

He also played timid, socially inept characters such as Arthur Putey, the man who sits idly by as a marriage counsellor ( Eric Idle ) makes love to his wife ( Carol Cleveland ), and Mr. Anchovy, a chartered accountant who wants to become a lion tamer.

The One Foot in the Grave theme song was written, composed and sung by Eric Idle.

Idle included a live version of the song on his album Eric Idle Sings Monty Python.

There are many clubs and societies organised by the students of the college, such as the college's dramatic society the Pembroke Players, which has been made famous by alumni such as Peter Cook, Eric Idle, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Clive James and Bill Oddie and is now in its 50th year.

Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

Terry Gilliam ( left ) with Monty Python colleagues Eric Idle and Terry Jones in the 1970s.

* And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1972 ) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin

* Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin

* Monty Python's Life of Brian ( 1979 ) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin

* Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin

His co-stars were Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Denise Coffey and Michael Palin.

* On April 22, 2009, the paper laid off 53 newsroom employees, including well-known bylines like Patrick Reardon, Melissa Isaacson, Russell Working, Jo Napolitano, Susan Diesenhouse, Beth Botts, Lou Carlozo, Jessica Reaves, Tom Hundley, Alan Artner, Eric Benderoff, James P. Miller, Bob Sakamoto, Terry Bannon and John Mullin.

* Eric, parody novel by popular author Terry Pratchett

One of the most influential sketch shows was Monty Python's Flying Circus, a comedy from the late 1960s and early 1970s that introduced both British and American audiences to such luminaries as John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.

In Terry Pratchett's Eric, Ponce da Quirm finds and drinks from the Fountain of Youth but dies, wishing they had put up a sign saying " boil first ".

In attendance that night were John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein, Lulu, The Hollies, Small Faces, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Donovan, Georgie Fame, Denny Laine, Terry Reid, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton who rarely missed any of Jimi's London gigs.

The nice one, Fidgit, as Palin ; the self-appointed leader, Randall, as Cleese ; the acerbic one, Strutter, as Eric Idle ; the quiet one, Og, as Graham Chapman ; the noisy rebel, Wally, as Terry Jones ; and the nasty, filth-loving one, Vermin, as Gilliam himself.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman and Robin Williams ( credited as Ray D. Tutto ).

Said Eric Idle, " Up until Munchausen, I'd always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films.

* The train chase in the 1996 film version of The Wind in the Willows, starring Terry Jones and Eric Idle, was filmed on / along the line.

Directed by Michael Hayes and produced by Peter Dews, with a script by Eric Crozier, the production featured Terry Scully as Henry, Mary Morris as Margaret and Eileen Atkins as Joan.

Directed by Michael Hayes and produced by Peter Dews, with a script by Eric Crozier, the production featured Terry Scully as Henry, Mary Morris as Margaret, Jack May as York and John Ringham as Gloucester.

Next there was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe ( Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes ) performing " Sit on My Face ".

# Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam.

* Gilliam shot the film with a different cast and crew than the Meaning of Life main production ( five of the members of Monty Python can be seen in brief cameos in the short: Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin washing the windows ; and Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman early in the board room when the attack starts ).

Starring in the sketch are Archimedes ( John Cleese ), Socrates ( Eric Idle ), Hegel ( Graham Chapman ), Nietzsche ( Michael Palin ), Marx ( Terry Jones ) and Kant ( Terry Gilliam ).

Many creative artists spent some of their career as copywriters before becoming famous for other things, including Peter Carey, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eric Ambler, Joseph Heller, Terry Gilliam, William S. Burroughs, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Lawrence Kasdan, Fay Weldon, Philip Kerr and Shigesato Itoi.

Writers for the series included Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Roland MacLeod, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Jim Franklin, Simon Brett and Chris Stuart-Clark.

He has produced the feature films The Man Who Came Back, with Eric Braeden, Billy Zane, and Armand Assante ; " Blue Eyes " with Burton Gilliam ; " Mexican Gold " with Lorenzo Lamas.