Idle, choking back tears, stated that Chapman had thought that Palin talked too much and had died rather than listen to him any more.

Idle stated that the two things that made his life bearable were listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes and watching the local football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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

* "( Here We Go Round ) The Lemon Tree " – The Idle Race, Jason Crest, Ant-Bee

On 13 November 2008, Eric Idle sung as the finale of We Are Most Amused, a comedy show at the New Wimbledon Theatre to celebrate Prince Charles's 60th birthday.

During one first series episode of DNAYS, Eric Idle followed the Captain Fantastic segment with the song " Captain Fantastic, We Love You ", backed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

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 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.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

The band became a popular phenomenon, especially in the U. S. where Idle was appearing on Saturday Night Live – fans would send in Beatles LPs with their sleeves altered to show the Rutles.

In July 1954 it was announced that Jowett Cars Limited would sell their main factory at Idle to International Harvester excluding plant and equipment needed for the service and spares departments.

In 1967, The Idle Race were the first major signing by the new British arm of Liberty Records ( which would soon merge with United Artists ).

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.

Oasis then followed up their May chart topper Lyla with a second, The Importance of Being Idle, which would be their final number one before their break up in 2009.

As the main female character, Gwen would appear in a lot of sketches, but is still much more noticeably absent than Idle or Battley.

He would also go on to record a single with Eric Idle as ' Dirk & Stig ' titled, " Mr. Sheene " / " Ging Gang Goolie ".

He would then begin a 30-year working relationship with Eric Idle.

Eric Idle, of Monty Python, once said that Aykroyd's ability to write and act out characters flawlessly made him the only member of the SNL cast capable of being a Python.

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.

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

Cleese admitted that this was slightly unfair – when the Pythons voted on which sketches should appear in a show, “ he only got one vote ”, but says that Idle was an independent person and worked best on his own.

In 1986, Idle provided the voice of Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions ( a race of robots built out of junk that can only speak in film catchphrases and advertising slogans ) in The Transformers: The Movie.

In 1998, the film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was released, in which a man named Alan Smithee ( Eric Idle ) wishes to disavow a film he has directed, but is unable to do so because the only pseudonym he is permitted to use is his own name.

Idle and Fataar issued one single as ' Dirk and Stig ' in 1979 ( Idle's only appearance on a Rutles-related disc ), but throughout the 1980s The Rutles did not exist.

* 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 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.

* Best of Idle Race Featuring Jeff Lynne 1990 ( 1 CD, UK only )

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.

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 ".

If no ordinary thread is able to run on a free CPU, then and only then does the scheduler select that CPU's System Idle Process thread for execution.

In the show, he was often the straight man, and second only to Idle in the number of his performances throughout the series.

The performers in each case were Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin ( Palin was the only member of the group actually from Yorkshire ).

Among the original Python group, only Eric Idle has not become involved.

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

Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, while promoting Holy Grail in Amsterdam, had come up with a sketch in which Jesus ' cross was falling apart because of the idiotic carpenters who built it and he angrily tells them how to do it correctly.

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.

This satire on the Catholic Church's attitudes toward contraception and masturbation is followed by one on Protestants: Chapman plays the husband of the household next door, who lectures his wife on their church's tolerance toward having intercourse for fun, although his frustrated spouse ( Idle ) points out that they never do.

After the shop owner ( Idle ) stymies his hopes of robbery, the robber is somewhat put out by his error, and makes do with a pair of panties.

Eric Idle has described the conception of the specials as " The Germans came to us and said ' Look, we haven't got a sense of humour, but we understand you do.