Happy Birthday, Eric Idle

[filkertom]

On this date in 1943.

What are your favorite bits that Idle has performed and/or written? Yeah, I know, there's too damn many. Loretta in Life of Brian, the Money Song, the man who can't say the letter "B" ("You mean, 'C'?" "Yes, that's right"), "The FCC Song", "The Song That Goes Like This" and "You Won't Succeed On Broadway" from Spamalot!, of course "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life", and I've deliberately left at least a dozen off the list so you can play....

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

I like his work with Neil Innis... "The Rutles" "All You Need Is Cash"

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

"The Universe Song" hands down, for me.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Robin.

[sdelmonte]

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.

[cara-chapel.livejournal.com]

Ditto for me. :-)

I also like "Penis Song (Not the Noel Coward Song)".

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Oh god, there are so many!!! Brave Sir Robin, the FCC Song, the Galaxy Song, wink-wink-nudge-nudge. God, he has done so much stuff that it is hard to remember it all. I know that I am forgetting a TON of stuff here.

[razzle.livejournal.com]

"The Philosopher's Song" is one of my favorites, and I'm also fond of "Gay Animal Story" from The Rutland Isles.

[ladyotterfae.livejournal.com]

to go over to the "performed" side of things, because I could go on about "written" all day and don't have the time - he made a kickass Ko-Ko in The Mikado.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

He did indeed. His acting is overlooked, as is most of the Pythons'.

[hiddenriver.livejournal.com]

The Universe Song, absolutely.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Doug was a gentleman and knew how to treat a female impersonator."

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

That was Cleese.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

But...but....you listed my favorite earworm song! "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (with whistling in my head)...out of all the stuff he's done (and I love so much of it), that's my absolute number one. :)

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

Eric Idle is easily my least favorite Python - he's the most self-indulgent, he endlessly recycles the most material most often (most of which isn't even his own), and frankly, he's the worst actor.

Having said that, I do quite enjoy "The Rutles."

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

...oh yeah, and that one time he appeared on "Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular" and sang "Bright Side" while being wrapped in chains and lowered upside down into a vat of boiling oil.

DAMN, but that show has to come to DVD!