— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) February 9, 2024 Hours later, Idle added, “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.

A sense of humour. Cleese and Idle in a scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975). “Explaining a joke kills it,” he continued. “And… making a joke too obvious kills it too.