— 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.

Fellow Python John Cleese ribs Idle, saying that it's typical of Idle to feign relaxing when he's actually busy. "Eric was always more show-biz than the rest of us," Cleese says with a grin.