Eric Idle & Blood Orange's Dev Hynes

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Two brilliant Brits on this week's Bullseye! First up this week, a conversation with comedy pioneer and Monty Python founding member Eric Idle! Eric's entered a reflective moment in his career now that Monty Python turned 50. He's written a memoir about his life. It's called "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography." Then, Blood Orange's Dev Hynes. The singer and multi-instrumentalist is also a producer who has worked for artists like Solange Knowles, Kylie Minogue, and Carly Rae Jepson to name a few. His latest album is "Negro Swan." Finally: Janet Delaney's photo collection of people in San Francisco, playing out their roles in the everyday drama of public life.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.3	What makes Monty Python work?
0:16.4	Like why?
0:17.9	50 years later are Monty Python movies and TV shows still funny?
0:22.0	Well, for one thing the jokes were basically never topical.
0:26.5	Really walks and fresh fruit weapons have a kind of timeless quality to them.
0:31.3	Then there's the dynamics of the group.
0:33.1	Everybody had their lane, something they were great at.
0:36.1	Terry Gilliam and his amazing collage animation.
0:39.7	Michael Palin was very smart, sweet, kind of goofy.
0:44.0	Eric Eidl had his amazing songs and dumb guys.
0:47.8	And John Cleese had brilliant, perfect timing, like unbelievable timing.
0:53.4	Okay, take it from Eric Eidl.
0:56.1	And watching Cleese time a line, you go, oh my god, you can wait forever.
1:00.8	I mean, I think in the Holy Grail, I'm waiting for him.
1:04.3	He says, she turned me into a newt.
1:06.8	And I'm at the front of the screen and I'm breaking up.
1:08.8	I have to bite onto whatever I'm holding.
1:12.6	I got better, finally says after two minutes, you know?
1:16.6	That's a learning, that's a lesson in timing right there.
1:21.6	It's Bullseye.
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