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

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

However, after an early brainstorming stage, and despite being non-believers, they agreed that Jesus was " definitely a good guy " and found nothing to mock in his actual teachings: " He's not particularly funny, what he's saying isn't mockable, it's very decent stuff ..." said Idle later.

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 ").

Two years later, on 2 October 1976, when Idle appeared on the American NBC show Saturday Night ( later Saturday Night Live ), he took videotape extracts from Rutland Weekend Television — including the Rutles clip.

A later sketch in the same episode features a North American Indian, played in stereotypical fashion by Eric Idle, eating a crunchy frog chocolate and indicating approval.

The common theme was of an average man ( played by Michael Palin in the original television version, but in later live versions by Eric Idle ) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job ( as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.

A parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring Eric Idle as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Sprocket-a later reference on a Monty Python album gave rise to the band of the same name.

To recover the leg, a hunting party is formed, which later encounters two suspicious men ( Idle and Palin ) dressed as two halves of a tiger suit, who attempt to assert their innocence in the matter through a succession of increasingly feeble excuses as to why they are dressed as a tiger.

" A later episode of Saturday Night Live, on October 20, 1979, featured guest host Eric Idle performing impersonations while strapped to a stretcher, assisted by orderlies.

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

He then moved to Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders ( the band later became The Idle Race ).

Idle, who later became a resident of the U. S. state of California, recorded the song in early 2004 in reaction to a fine by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) for saying " fuck " on a radio station.

The show has been released on DVD, originally in a 66-minute version incorporating cuts for syndication, later in a " special edition " restored to its full length of 72 minutes and with extras including a commentary by Idle.

As a boy, Harold Vanderbilt spent part of his summers at the Vanderbilt mansions, the Idle Hour estate in Long Island, New York on the banks of the Connetquot River, Marble House at Newport, Rhode Island, and later at Belcourt ( the Newport mansion of his stepfather, Oliver Belmont ).

In Windows 2000 and later the threads in the System Idle Process are also used to implement CPU power saving.

" The Galaxy Song " is a song written by Eric Idle which originally appeared in the 1983 film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, later being released onto the album Monty Python Sings.

This scene was later remade in the spinoff film, All You Need Is Cash, featuring Idle, Innes, Rikki Fataar and John Halsey ( who also appeared in many of the musical items in the series ) as the " Pre-Fab Four ".

In 2001, the band toured with Amen, Flybanger, Finger Eleven, Slurpymundae ( later Idle Sons ), and Headstrong.

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

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.

Idle himself performed during this 50-minute oratorio, along with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and members of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.

* " 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.

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.

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.

* " FCC Song ", a song by Eric Idle

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.

Idle presented Mayo with a model human foot, akin to the one used in the Monty Python title sequence, as a thank you gift for promoting the song.

In 2004, Idle recorded a protest song of sorts, the " FCC Song ", in which he lambastes the US Federal Communications Commission for fining him $ 5, 000 for saying the word " fuck " on national radio.

* Track 16 is the only track with Rutles content, Idle sings " I Must Be In Love " ( First recording of Idle vocalising a Rutles song.

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 ".

This includes the film's theme song, sung by Eric Idle putting on a French accent, accompanied with an establishing animated opening segment that does not include any actual credits.

To convince her, the paramedic introduces her to the man in a pink suit ( Idle ) who lives inside her refrigerator to sing her a song about the wonders of the universe, resulting in her realising the small importance of her existence and agreeing to the request.

The first is introduced with Eric Idle as a Noël Coward-esque fop performing the song " Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis ?".

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

" That's Death ", a song in the game sung by Eric Idle, was picked by PC Gamer as one of the best songs in PC gaming.

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is a comedy song written by Eric Idle that was originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals.

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.

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

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.

" FCC Song " is a deliberately controversial and explicit song by British-born Monty Python comic Eric Idle.