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.

— 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.

Expanding on Idle’s theory slightly, the Grail quest could then be seen as a metaphor for the entire Monty Python project. The Knights/Pythons assemble as a team, work together on a project, but ...

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.