With their irreverent and often surreal sketches, Monty Python's Flying Circus changed comedy. The troop featured five Brits: Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

Eric Idle is proud that Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is one of the most popular funeral songs in England. "I find that very, very moving actually," he tells ABC RN's The Stage Show. "It's ...

Eric Idle talks Monty Python spats, what keeps him on stage, and why it’s important to Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Picture: Supplied) Half a century since Monty Python burst into the ...

“I think all the Pythons are nuts in some way,” Eric Idle once wrote, “and together we make one completely insane person.” That insane entity, the comedy supergroup Monty Python, convened in 1969, ...