Idle himself was said to have been uncomfortable with the character ; " It's essentially a pretty savage attack on rabid Zionism, suggesting it's rather akin to Nazism, which is a bit strong to take, but certainly a point of view ".

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 himself admitted this was sometimes difficult: “ You had to convince five others.

This ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 and involved Idle performing sketches and links to records, with himself playing nearly all the multi-tracked parts.

On television, Idle created Rutland Weekend Television ( RWT ), a sketch show on BBC2, written by himself, with music by Neil Innes.

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.

It was illustrated by Wesla Weller and was first published in 1996 with an audio version which included some songs by Idle himself.

Lowe has made another special guest voice appearance in the online game DragonFable for the Falconreach Idle event in November 2010, he voiced himself in a panel of three judges for the event.

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

Idle later performed the song as part of the 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

Idle is an accomplished songwriter, having composed and performed many of the Pythons ' most famous comic pieces, including " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", " The Philosophers ' Song ", " Galaxy Song ", " Penis Song ( Not the Noel Coward Song )" and, probably his most recognised hit, " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ", which was written for the closing scene of the Monty Python film Life of Brian, and sung from the crosses during the mass crucifixion.

Idle, his fellow Pythons, and assorted family and friends performed the song at Graham Chapman's funeral.

Idle performed the song at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 12 August 2012.

* " 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.

An earlier song, " I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio ", written and performed by Idle on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( 1980 ), touched on this subject, but with two major differences: It limited its scorn to radio programmers and it bleeped ( using various sound effects ) the various obscenities.

The song " Good Enough " is performed by Lifehouse ; " Clocks " is performed by Coldplay ; " Really Nice Day " is performed by Eric Idle and John Du Prez ; and " Big Time Boopin '" is performed by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

She performed as a Valkyrie accompanying Eric Idle in singing a modified version of " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ".

While the song was once performed by an audio-animatronic character, the Dreamfinder and his creation Figment, in the current ( as of 2012 ) version of the ride, it is performed by Eric Idle and Figment.

A few non-Innes songs ( mostly penned by Idle ) were also performed by him and members of his band, Fatso, during the tenure of the show.

The band also performed the song in the film Idle Hands.

The main lyrics are performed by John Cleese, accompanied by a small chorus comprising Eric Idle and other singers.

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

Not to be outdone by Cleese, Idle was heard saying during the song's close: " I'd just like to be the last person at this meeting to say ' fuck '.

His mother, Nora Barron ( née Sanderson ), was a health visitor, and his father, Ernest Idle, served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, only to be killed in a hitch-hiking accident shortly after the war.

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

Poor business strategy and direction, over-confidence, was the financially sound company's downfall and even after the engine and gearbox problems were solved the Idle plant was never able to build, or, during 1952, the distribution network to sell, the expected volume.

According to the DVD audio commentary by Cleese, Palin, and Idle, the sequence originated in a story told to Cleese when he was attending an English class during his school days.

There follows a long sketch set during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War in Natal, in which a devastating attack by Zulus is dismissed in lieu of a far more pressing matter: One of the officers ( Idle ) has had his leg bitten off during the night.

Whilst practising the song, during a break in filming, Idle found that the song worked better if sung in a more cheeky manner.

Idle reduction — reducing the amount of fuel consumed by truck fleets during idling — is an ongoing economical and environmental effort.

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.

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.

In June 2007, " Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy )", a comic oratorio by Idle and John Du Prez premiered at the inaugural Luminato arts festival in Toronto.

The song is used at the end of Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), the comedic oratorio written by Eric Idle and collaborator John Du Prez.

In June 2007, Oundjian conducted the world premiere of an oratorio by Idle and John DuPrez based on the Monty Python movie Life of Brian, titled Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), at the first Luminato Festival in Toronto, Canada.

At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.

On 23 April 1977, Idle made another appearance on Saturday Night Live, bringing along Neil Innes as a musical guest.

Æthelfrith in battle by the river Idle in 616, and Æthelfrith was killed, along with Raedwald's son Raegenhere.

* 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.

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 ".

Its course was blocked by a dam constructed at Idle Stop, and its waters were diverted along the Bycarrs Dyke, a Roman navigation channel, which joined the River Trent at West Stockwith.

A drainage channel called the New Idle River was constructed in a straight line from Idle Stop to Dirtness, crossing the Torne by a tunnel at Tunnel Pits, about halfway along its course.

Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn returned as Eddie and Catherine, along with Dana Barron again appearing as Audrey, which she played in National Lampoon's Vacation, and Eric Idle, who played " The Bike Rider " in European Vacation reprises the role, only this time being credited as " British Man on Plane ".

Beyond the station it crossed the North Idle Drain, and then ran along the bank of the Hatfield Waste Drain to reach its terminus at Hatfield Moor, close to the Hatfield Peat Works, then owned by the British Moss Litter Company ( BMLC ).