Python sketches dealing most with contemporary obsessions like pop music, sexual permissiveness and recreational drugs are usually Idle's work, often characterised by double entendre, sexual references, and other " naughty " subject matter – most famously demonstrated in " Nudge Nudge.

Idle's first solo work was his own BBC Radio One show, Radio Five ( pre-dating the real Radio Five station by 18 years ).

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is also featured in Eric Idle's Spamalot, a Broadway musical based upon Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and was sung by the rest of the Monty Python group at Graham Chapman's memorial service and at the Monty Python Live At Aspen special.

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.

When Chapman died on October 4, 1989, the five remaining Python members, as well as Chapman's close relations, came together at his private funeral to sing " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as part of Idle's eulogy.

The film also features cameos from Idle's fellow Python Michael Palin, several SNL cast members including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd ( as well as SNL writers Al Franken and Tom Davis ), Bianca Jagger as Dirk McQuickly's wife Martini, Ronnie Wood as a Hells Angel, and Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and Roger McGough as themselves.

There is no mention in the film of the fact that Eric Idle's ever-cheerful joker is called ' Mr. Cheeky ', or that the Roman guard played by Michael Palin is named ' Nisus Wettus '.

It runs approximately 50 minutes, and was conducted at its World Premiere by Toronto Symphony Orchestra music director Peter Oundjian, who is Idle's cousin.

An example of Idle's idiosyncratic writing is " Ants In Their Pants " – a poem about the sex life of ants.

" Eric Idle's Beatles spoof, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, features an album cover parody of Magical Mystery Tour in which the song Strawberry Fields Forever is renamed " W. C. Fields Forever.

Even these power sources, however, are available only because of the Sun's influence on our early solar system, so Idle's statement is correct in a literal ( if somewhat pedantic ) sense even if not for practical purposes.

Idle's estimate is a good one: 12 million miles per minute, versus the standard figure of about 11. 16 million miles per minute.

Lyn Ashley was Eric Idle's wife at the time.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

From 26 – 29 April 2012, Tim Curry appeared in Eric Idle's new play ″ What About Dick ?″ at the Orpheum in Los Angeles.

However, when " Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life " was adopted as a football chant in the late 1980s, Idle's then neighbour Gary Lineker suggested Idle re-record and release the popular track.

On the Channel 4 programme What the Pythons Did Next, Rutles drummer John Halsey ( aka " Barry Wom ") said that he had to switch off Idle's The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch after ten minutes.

The Rutles began in 1975 as a sketch on Idle's BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television.

Idle and Fataar issued one single as ' Dirk and Stig ' in 1979 ( Idle's only appearance on a Rutles-related disc ), but throughout the 1980s The Rutles did not exist.

Programming included a special compilation of clips from Eric Idle's BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television, the original pilot of Shooting Stars, and Mike Leigh's film Nuts in May.

The band originally appeared in a sketch on Idle's program Rutland Weekend Television.

On June 1, 2007, Sieber sang tenor in the world premiere of Eric Idle's Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ) in Toronto.

Idle's character in the pub makes several cameo appearances in later episodes, referred to as " Arthur Name.

Idle's figures for the size of the Milky Way galaxy are roughly correct.

Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns.

Thus the formation of the Monty Python troupe has been referred to as a result of Cleese's desire to work with Palin and the chance circumstances that brought the other four members into the fold.

Some object-oriented databases are designed to work well with object-oriented programming languages such as Delphi, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C #, Visual Basic. NET, C ++, Objective-C and Smalltalk ; others have their own programming languages.

In Monty Python, a popular skit is " The Lumberjack Song " known for its refrain " I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay / I sleep all night and I work all day ".

At an NPR interview in 2007, Michael Palin stated the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and unable to come up with a conclusion to the barbershop sketch that preceded it.

Mirkin lists Woody Allen and James L. Brooks as his writing inspirations and Stanley Kubrick and the work of the comedy group Monty Python as developing his " dark sense of humor.

FITS support is available in a variety of programming languages that are used for scientific work, including C, C ++, C #, Fortran, IGOR Pro, IDL, Java, LabVIEW, Mathematica, MatLab, Perl, PDL, Python, R, and Tcl.

• Much of the material performed in the heralded first four shows ( 1976 – 1981 ) came from the rich repertoire of sketches and skits created in the preceding 15 years by Beyond The Fringe and the subsequent work of its alumni, and by Monty Python and its many stage, radio and TV antecedents.

Using NumPy in Python gives functionality comparable to MATLAB since they are both interpreted, and they both allow the user to write fast programs as long as most operations work on arrays or matrices instead of scalars.

In March 2008, Sun Microsystems announced the hiring of Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki to work on Jython and Python, similar to Sun's hiring of two JRuby developers.

Despite these efforts, however, word of his unreliable reputation had spread throughout the entertainment industry and he could only find work as a television director, helming the pilots for Beverly Hills Buntz ( a Dennis Franz vehicle that purloined the premise of Beverly Hills Cop and lasted for 13 episodes ) and Jake's Journey, a planned collaboration in the Arthurian sword and sorcery vein with Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame.

In this aspect, Csound and RTcmix have since evolved to work effectively as software libraries which can be accessed through a variety of frontends and programming languages, such as C, C ++, Java, Python, Tcl, Lua, Lisp,

The result, in Shostakovich ’ s ruthlessly irreverent hands, is like an operatic version of Charlie Chaplin or Monty Python ... despite its magnificently absurd subject and virtuosic music, The Nose is a perfectly practical work and provides a hugely entertaining evening in the theatre.

In contrast to a programmer, a TD would normally not work on large programming projects but rather make heavy use of scripting languages such as Python, MEL, or MAXScript or shell scripting.

Neil Pigot, who did some work with the group, describes their style as " a sort of extension of the Python tradition, but very much in an Australian context.

The version of Python present in the Windows version of the game differs from the version in Mac OS X up to and including version 10. 4. 7, and as a result, while most Python files for the Windows version will work on the Macintosh version, not all will.

The syntax in NCLab is based on Python, and method names have been changed to be easier for children to work with.

It is possible to add plug-ins, written in Python, to extend the capabilities of the editor, or to make changes to the official Python files to alter the way QuArK's functions work.

Many cultural icons of the youth movement including members of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Monty Python, were fans of Kneale's work.

* a manner similar to a work of the Monty Python comedy group

Monty Python star Graham Chapman was perhaps their most famous member, and he was at work in a feature movie about the club when he died in 1989.