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 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.

Papa pointed a scornful finger at the splashing youth: `` Idle recreation ''!!

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.

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 '.

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 ").

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.

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

Æthelfrith, who was for years a successful war-leader, especially against the native British, was eventually killed in battle around 616 by Raedwald of East Anglia at the River Idle.

Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni ( particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle ), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once ( in order of first film appearance ):

He was defeated and killed around the year 616 in battle at the River Idle by Raedwald of East Anglia, who installed Edwin, the son of Aella, a former king of Deira, as king.

Following that came More Than Idle Chatter, the six compositions of which focus on processings of the human voice using linear predictive coding, granular synthesis, and plucked string synthesis ; its three highlights are granular synth pieces called " Idle Chatter ," " Just_more_idle_chatter ," and " Notjustmoreidlechatter ," which look at the same thing from multiple perspectives.

** If an error occurs at any state of the FSM process, the BGP session is terminated immediately and returned to the Idle state.

Idle maintains that there was little to do at the school and boredom drove him to study hard, and consequently won a place at Cambridge University.

Idle attended Pembroke College at Cambridge, where he studied English.

Idle started at Cambridge only a year after his future Pythons fellows Graham Chapman and John Cleese.

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.

Eric Idle was a popular addition to the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in London on 12 August.

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.