Eric Idle Talks to Bob About Monty Python, Spamalot, and Why He Always Looks on the Bright Side of Life

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Actor, musician, and comedian Eric Idle sits down with Bob for his first in-person episode in over a year! Eric Idle is a former member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band The Rutles and is also the writer of the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spamalot. Idle tells stories from his past productions and explains to bob why the pandemic is like the 18th century.

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0:57.4	Shane Company and Shaneco.com. Hey everybody. Welcome to the new episode,
1:03.9	nearing 100 episodes, any moment of Bob Sagitts here for you. I love doing this podcast so much.
1:11.8	It gave me a reason to invite this gentleman over who I get to say is a friend of mine. I know,
1:18.3	I know. I had friend issues as a kid. Okay, it's not about name dropping. Some people just go,
1:23.2	well, I've got, you know, this person, that person and they name people that have the top five
1:27.9	movies. I idolize certain people since I'm a kid. So I didn't know I'd be a stand-up. I didn't know
1:35.5	but I had an affinity for comedy. And one of the groups that was the biggest influence of my life
1:42.1	was Monty Python. And I got to know this gentleman who is one of the most brilliant people that I've
1:49.4	ever met in comedy and it's Eric Idol. And he's my guest today. So those of you that might not know
1:57.2	Gen Z, forget about it, but you can learn. You should try Gen X, study up, see some movies, see
2:06.2	Holy Grail, see Relife of Brian, see Meaning of Life, see, I mean, go through the annals. I said
2:14.5	annals of Monty Python. And then go through the history of Eric Idol, Spamalan on Broadway, great writer.
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