Eric Idle recorded alternate lyrics for the radio version, with the swearing censored, and the comments about the end of the film replaced with references to the end of the record, and continued rants about old people.

He passed the idea to Idle, who had a separate idea about a boring TV documentary maker.

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 ".

Said Eric Idle, " Up until Munchausen, I'd always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films.

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.

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.

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 ").

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) in the US raised questions about non-hybrid Honda vehicles equipped with the company's ' Idle Stop ' transmissions in February 2001 due to concerns over the " sudden lurching forward of a vehicle in an automatic restart " – rather than the " gradual creeping forward found in current transmission designs.

* " Travel Agency " – Palin attempts to sell a package tour to Mr. Smoketoomuch ( Idle ), who will not stop talking about travel difficulties, even as he is chased by an asylum orderly ( Cleese ) all about the stadium.

In the final episode of the initial run, " The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings ", Fry trades hands with the Robot Devil in order to compose an opera about Leela in which they fall in love.

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.

The Commission of Sewers decided that a new cut was needed, to carry water from Misterton, Gringley and Everton to the Trent, and so relieve the Idle, but only about was constructed before landowners objected and the work was not completed.

# Nudge Nudge: Sitting in a bar, a man ( Idle ) asks another man ( Jones ) about his wife, with a relentless stream of sexual innuendos.

# The Lumberjack Song: The shop owner ( Palin ) sings about his desire to be a lumberjack, and his desire to be female, the latter revelation surprising his best girl ( Connie Booth ) and the background singers ( nine Canadian Mounties -- five of whom are Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones and Gilliam ), who storm off and throw fruit at him.

Idle stated about the song that

While watching a documentary about lions by Declan Desmond ( voiced by Eric Idle ), Homer decides to nurture Lisa after thinking Bart has replaced him.

As patrons in a pub, Idle ( playing a younger man ) asks Jones ( as an older gentleman ) personal, sexual innuendo-laden questions about his relationship with his wife, such as " Is your wife a ' goer '?

After a period of time, Jones demands to know what Idle is talking about.

* Idle Foundation, an unofficial forum and resource site about idling

* Idle Thumbs interviews Chahi about Another World, 27. 8. 2004

The joke was doubly meaningful as Idle had accidentally been granted a presentation budget instead of the more lavish budgets associated with light entertainment-so the weekly patter about their inability to buy props and sets was in fact quite real.

Idle starred in the children's television comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set co-starring his future Python fellows Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

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

In 1978, the Rutles ' mockumentary film All You Need Is Cash, a collaboration between Python members and Saturday Night Live, was aired on NBC television, as written by Idle, with music by Innes.

This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for 1970s television programming, became an actual group ( while remaining a parody of The Beatles ) and toured and recorded, releasing two UK chart hits.

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.

# Sir Edward Ross: The audience chases Ewing through a television studio, interrupting a talk show ( presented by Idle ) in which an interviewer ( Cleese ), attempting to create a rapport, calls his subject – Sir Edward Ross ( Chapman ) – increasingly inappropriate nicknames: " Eddie ", " Eddie Baby ", " pussycat ", " angel drawers ", and " Frank "... claiming " President Nixon had a hedgehog named Frank.

BALPA was featured in the Monty Python's Flying Circus television episode " Déjà Vu " in which Eric Idle portrays the BALPA spokesman in the ' Flying Lessons ' sketch.

In its original airing on Monty Python's Flying Circus, the sketch was preceded by a short link in which Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin portray schoolboys being interviewed for television by John Cleese.

He made his film debut in 1976, at the age of 17, as a waiter in Bugsy Malone, That same year he had significant roles in three television series: The Molly Wopsies, Four Idle Hands, and The Flockton Flyer ; however, he had enjoyed an incidental appearance ( with fellow drama students ) the previous year ( 1975 ) in Thames Television's You Must Be Joking!

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

Terms such as " stream-of-consciousness " were used by music critics to describe songs like " Idle ":

Idle changes tack and begins praising TV critics, but the cast rebel against him and talk about putting in for their own series as the credits roll.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ):

* And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1972 ) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin

Idle is quoted as saying: " It was a physically abusive, bullying, harsh environment for a kid to grow up in.

Idle had already refused to be senior boy in the school cadet force, as he supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and had participated in the yearly Aldermaston March.

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 '.

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.

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

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

Idle also wrote the book and co-wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Monty Python's Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Idle won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.

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 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.

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

Idle contributed a cover of Buddy Holly's " Raining in My Heart " for the tribute album Listen to Me: Buddy Holly, released 6 September 2011.