Idle adapted the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" into "Spamalot," which premiered at the Shubert Theatre in 2005 and ran for almost five years. But Idle wasn't born to comedy.

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.

Eric Idle isn’t exactly known for holding back his opinions on social media. After all, he’s been spilling digital tea relating to Monty Python for quite a while now. Most recently, Idle took ...

When asked back in 2014 if the end of the Python was really because of Palin’s wishes, Idle responded, “Pretty much. We were offered America, Australia, Canada, South Africa.

British actor and comedian Eric Idle is known to many people for his character—or rather, characters—in the Monty Python film series. He gained global recognition in the 1970s after starring ...

NEW YORK — Former "Monty Python" star Eric Idle said he's still working at the age of 80 for financial reasons, sharing on social media that his income has tailed off "disastrously" and adding ...

The Monty Python troupe disbanded several years back, but a number of its comedic lights scarcely sank from view. Ex-Python John Cleese, in particular, made a splash recently in the movie ”A … ...