The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured appearances from Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.

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

Idle also led the other surviving Python members and Chapman's family and close friends in a rendition of " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " from the film Life of Brian.

The oratorio, called Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), was commissioned to be part of the festival called Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, in June 2007, and was written / scored by Idle and John Du Prez, who also worked with Idle on Spamalot.

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.

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.

Wenceslaus ( also Wenceslas ; ;, nicknamed der Faule (" the Idle "); 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419 ) was, by inheritance, King of Bohemia ( as Wenceslaus IV ) from 1363 and by election, German King ( formally King of the Romans ) from 1376.

Idle is also writer and star of the 3-D film film Pirates – 4D for Busch Entertainment Corporation.

With help from Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo, who gave the song regular airplay and also used the chorus within a jingle, it became a hit, some 12 years after the song's original appearance in Life Of Brian, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and landing Idle a set on Top of the Pops in October 1991.

There has also been criticism of Idle from the other Rutles, who reunited for the Archaeology album in the mid-1990s without him.

In Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), the song " A Fair Day's Work " makes references to " The Lumberjack Song ", with Eric Idle singing about the masculine virtues of work, but also of dressing in women's clothing to go to " naughty bars ".

She also appeared in Splitting Heirs ( 1993 ), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.

Nuns on the Run is a 1990 British comedy film starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, also featuring Camille Coduri and Janet Suzman.

Thornley was also known for his 1962 manuscript, The Idle Warriors, which was based on the activities of his acquaintance, Lee Harvey Oswald, prior to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

* Eric Idle as Gunther ( also in Crimson ) / Fish # 3 / Gaston / ' Meaning of Life ' Singer / Mr. Moore / Mrs. Blackitt / Watson / Blackitt / Atkinson / Perkins / Soldier Victim # 3 / Man in Front End of Tiger Suit / Mrs. Hendy / Man in Pink / Noël Coward / Angela

The DVD also featured a soundtrack for the lonely, which is an audio commentary of a completely disgusting man ( Michael Palin ) who is sitting watching the film in his flat, throughout the commentary he usually picks up the phone and talks to friends ( Terry Jones and Eric Idle ), passes gas and talks under his voice.

During this period, Idle Race was also, as one member later termed it, a very " schizophrenic " band.

* A new, 5-disc Idle Race box set is also in the works, although a release date has yet to be determined.

( The Idle Race are also mentioned in the lyrics of The Fall's 1978 song " No Xmas for John Quays ".

Eric Idle has trouble keeping a straight face while delivering his lines with an extraordinarily overwrought accent, which also causes Terry Jones to openly burst out laughing.

* " The Lumberjack Song " – A rugged, masculine outdoorsman ( Idle, as opposed to Palin in the original BBC series ; Palin had also performed it in Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus ) unsettles the chorus by revealing his fondness for women's clothes.

Idle wrote for Python mostly by himself, at his own pace, although he sometimes found it difficult in having to present material to the others and make it seem funny without the back-up support of a partner.

" Idle originally wrote " Nudge, Nudge " for Ronnie Barker, but it was rejected because there was ' no joke in the words '.

Idle wrote and directed the Rutles comeback in 2008 for a live show Rutlemania!

Idle wrote the lyrics and book for Spamalot, collaborating with John Du Prez on much of the music.

In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article " And Now for Something Completely Deficient " that though Idle " has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days ... his jokey ' exposure ' of his own exploitation ( he has called tours ' Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python ' and ' The Greedy Bastard Tour ') is more irritating than funny.

In the 1940s, he wrote a series of book musicals with social messages, including the very successful Bloomer Girl ( 1944 ) ( about temperance and women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer ) and his most famous Broadway show, Finian's Rainbow ( 1947 ) ( perhaps the first Broadway musical with a racially integrated chorus line, featuring Harburg's " When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich ").

Whilst trying to come up with a way of ending the film Monty Python's Life of Brian, Eric Idle wrote an original version of the song which was sung in a more straight fashion, which the other Python members agreed would be good enough for the end of the film.

* Eric Idle, a former member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, wrote a children's book entitled The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat which was based on the poem.

In 2005, Idle released The Greedy Bastard Diary, a book detailing the things the cast and crew encountered during the three-month tour.

Spamalot features a book and lyrics by Eric Idle, music by Idle and John Du Prez, direction by Mike Nichols, and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.

In February 1962, Thornley completed The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Eric Idle stated in the book The Pythons, " They were a particularly dead audience.

The book remains a classic of Canadian literature, and was followed by Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich in 1914.

The book also contains the " Vatican Sex Manual " featuring pictures of Eric Idle in various positions in which it is impossible to have sex.

The Importance of Being Idle is a humorous 2000 book by author Stephen Robins subtitled ' A little book of lazy inspiration '.

The book was re-released in 1991 with an afterword by Eric Idle, which has been included in all subsequent releases.

* The Importance of Being Idle ( book ), a book by Stephen Robins

His second book Eight Minutes Idle, which drew on Thorne's experiences of having worked in a call centre, was published in 1999 and won an Encore Award.