Most Recent Role: Himself on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Alias Name(s): Eric Idol, Eric C. Idleberg, Montypython Flyingcircus
Gender: Male
Birthplace: South Shields, County Durham, England.
Birthday: 3-29-1943
Birth Name: Eric Idle
Alias Name(s): Eric Idol, Eric C. Idleberg, Montypython Flyingcircus
Gender: Male
Birthplace: South Shields, County Durham, England.
Birthday: 3-29-1943
Birth Name: Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor and film director, as well as an author and guitarist/songwriter. He wrote and performed as part of Monty Python.
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Most Recent Appearance
Eric Idle/Les Stroud/Finger Eleven
Friday 14 September 2007 on CBS
Guests on the show are actor Eric Idle and TV personality Les Stroud. Finger Eleven performs.
News Headlines
- external: Eric Idle Recalls Monty Python's Best 2006-02-22
- external: An Idle reflection on 'Monty Python' 2006-01-18
- external: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2005-04-15
- external: The Ellen Degeneres Show 2005-04-11
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After co-starring with Pierce Brosnan in Around the World in 80 Days, NBC offered Eric the lead in the 1989 sitcom Nearly Departed!
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Eric lends his voice to the third movie in the Shrek series, Shrek the Third. He plays the role of Merlin.
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Eric's journal, now titled The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, has been published!
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Eric is an avid fan of the English Premiership and is a supporter of Sunderland Football Club.
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In 2004, Eric recorded a protest song, the FCC Song in which he lambasts the US Federal Communications Commission for fining him $5000 for using the word 'f*ck' on national radio. Fittingly, the short song contains 14 uses of the expletive.
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Eric: (his favourite sexual position) Flat on my back with my wallet open.
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Eric: If the studios payed the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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Eric: (on gay marriages) It's about time they suffered too.
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Eric: John (Cleese) once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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Eric: (on the Royal Wolverhampton School) It was a physically abusive, bullying, harsh environment for a kid to grow up in. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Perfect training for Python.
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Other Appearances
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
Various Characters |
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Various Characters |
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Nearly Departed
Grant Pritchard |
Rutland Weekend Television
Various Roles |
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Suddenly Susan
Ian Maxtone-Graham |
We Have Ways of Making You Laugh
Regular Sketch Performer |
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Saturday Night Live
Himself |
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Aspel & Company
Jackie Collins, Eric Idle, Gary Webster Himself |
Aspel & Company
Bob Geldof, Eric Idle, Princess Stephanie of Monaco Himself |
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At Last the 1948 Show
Episode Four |
At Last the 1948 Show
Episode Eight |
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Between the Lions
Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West Himself [Flash Frame, Uncredited] |
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
War and Peace and War Guzelian |
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Faerie Tale Theatre
The Tale of the Frog Prince |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Money Programme Music |
One Foot in the Grave
Alive and Buried Music |
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The Liver Birds
The Liver Birds Story Editor |
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
Welcome to the Do Not Adjust Your Set guide at TV.com. British children's sitcom more Monty Python's Flying Circus
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the... more Nearly Departed
Grant and Claire Pritchard are a deceased couple who still inhabit their home and make trouble for the family that live there now. Grandpa is the only one who can hear and see the ghosts and... more Rutland Weekend Television
In the early 1970s, while he wrote and performed for BBC-1's Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle conjured up a BBC Radio One series. He called it Radio Five in the days when the BBC had... more
Suddenly Susan
Workplace situation comedy centered on the character of Susan, a "somewhat sheltered" magazine writer who has dumped her rich fiancé at the altar and must now cope with being suddenly single -... more We Have Ways of Making You Laugh
Welcome to the We Have Ways of Making You Laugh guide at TV.com. Producer Humphrey Barclay was very enthusiastic when he helped establish London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1968. He had... more
Welcome to the Do Not Adjust Your Set guide at TV.com. British children's sitcom more Monty Python's Flying Circus
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the... more Nearly Departed
Grant and Claire Pritchard are a deceased couple who still inhabit their home and make trouble for the family that live there now. Grandpa is the only one who can hear and see the ghosts and... more Rutland Weekend Television
In the early 1970s, while he wrote and performed for BBC-1's Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle conjured up a BBC Radio One series. He called it Radio Five in the days when the BBC had... more
Suddenly SusanWorkplace situation comedy centered on the character of Susan, a "somewhat sheltered" magazine writer who has dumped her rich fiancé at the altar and must now cope with being suddenly single -... more We Have Ways of Making You Laugh
Welcome to the We Have Ways of Making You Laugh guide at TV.com. Producer Humphrey Barclay was very enthusiastic when he helped establish London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1968. He had... more
