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.

Melinda Daffin, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Jul 25, 2016 Jul 25, 2016 1 min to read eric idle and john cleese.jpg ...

— 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.

Next, Idle’s going home to keep working on the musical version of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” otherwise know as “Spamalot,” which is expected on Broadway in 2005.