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.

In 1978, Chapman co-wrote ( with Bernard McKenna ) and starred in The Odd Job alongside David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle, Jones, and Palin.

With fellow Pythons already aware of his sexual orientation, Eric Idle replied, " We've found out who it was and we've had him shot.

* Eric Idle – Mr Cheeky, Stan / Loretta, Harry the Haggler, Culprit woman who casts first stone, Intensely dull youth, Otto, Gaoler's assistant, Mr Frisbee III.

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.

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 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.

He also played timid, socially inept characters such as Arthur Putey, the man who sits idly by as a marriage counsellor ( Eric Idle ) makes love to his wife ( Carol Cleveland ), and Mr. Anchovy, a chartered accountant who wants to become a lion tamer.

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.

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.

Humphrey Barclay, who recruited David Jason to appear in Do Not Adjust Your Set ( partly to offset the rather intellectual style of Idle, Jones and Palin ), admired Jason's sense of timing.

Unlike Palin, Idle is said to be the master of insincere characters, from the David Frost-esque Timmy Williams, to small-time crook Stig O ' Tracy, who tries to deny the fact that organised crime master Dinsdale Piranha nailed his head to the floor.

As the second-youngest member of the Pythons, Idle was closest in spirit to the students and teenagers who made up much of Python's fanbase.

In recent years, Idle has worked with people who regard him as a huge inspiration, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which he voiced Dr. Vosknocker.

More recently, Idle provided the voice of Merlin the magician in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third ( 2007 ) with his former Python co-star John Cleese, who voiced King Harold.

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.

There has also been criticism of Idle from the other Rutles, who reunited for the Archaeology album in the mid-1990s without him.

Encouraged by the reaction to the sketch, featuring Beatles ' music pastiches by Neil Innes, the film was written by Idle, who co-directed it with Gary Weis.

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

* McCartney, who had just released his own album, London Town, always answered, “ No comment .” According to Innes: “ He had a dinner at some awards thing at the same table as Eric one night and Eric said it was a little frosty .” Idle claimed McCartney changed his mind because his wife Linda thought it was funny.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

" 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 ).

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.

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.

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.

He was educated at Idle, near Bradford ; his aptitude for mechanics became apparent when he began work for his uncle.

Yet the second single from Don't Believe the Truth, " The Importance of Being Idle " became the second Noel-sung Oasis track to top the UK charts and was named 2005's finest track by Q magazine, as well as being nominated for the NMEs " Best Song of 2005 " award.

Until the 17th century, the river flowed northwards from a place which subsequently became known as ' Idle Stop ', across Hatfield Chase.

He became a driver for a building and contracting firm in Idle, West Yorkshire.

He acquired the U. S. Triple Crown winner Whirlaway and sold the mare La Troienne to Edward R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky who became one of the most influential mares to be imported into the U. S. in the 20th century.

After Colonel Bradley's death in 1946, Ogden Phipps purchased a group of Idle Hour's bloodstock that became the basis for what became Phipps ' major horse racing operation.