"You treacherous bastard."

October 13, 2018 10:27 PM

Eric Idle and John Cleese (of Monty Python) sit down in front of an audience and reminisce about John's life and career. [1h17m] Recorded in late 2014 as John was doing promotion for his memoir, "So, Anyway...". Charming and hilarious. Enjoy!
posted by hippybear (7 comments total)

Eric Idle was just on the Late Show where he talked about an impromptu party he had with the cast of Star Wars (while they were filming in London) and the Rolling Stones showed up.
posted by eye of newt at 10:53 PM on October 13, 2018 [3 favorites]

I'm off to see Idle being interviewed about his new book at the Cheltenham Literature Festival later today. If he says anything interesting, I'll let you know.
posted by Paul Slade at 12:53 AM on October 14, 2018 [1 favorite]

John Cleese has a book coming out tomorrow! It's a compilation of his lectures from Cornell. The mister graduated the year before Cleese became a visiting professor, and we're all very excited to take turns reading the book.
posted by Ruki at 9:58 AM on October 14, 2018 [2 favorites]

A thoroughly enjoyable 1h17m. I was mentally on the edge of my seat the whole time, waiting for someone to say the post title.
posted by bryon at 11:05 PM on October 14, 2018

I can't imagine that anyone in the US would remember Python if they had sold off the concept of the show.
posted by notmtwain at 1:58 PM on October 15, 2018

Here's a video of Mr. Cleese sitting down with metafilter's own John Hodgman, as part of the same book promotion tour.
posted by wabbittwax at 6:41 AM on October 16, 2018

I was mentally on the edge of my seat the whole time, waiting for someone to say the post title.

As was I..and I guessed wrong about who would say it.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:44 AM on October 16, 2018