Always Look on the Bright Side of Life | Eric Idle

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life | Eric Idle | Talks at Google

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Eric Idle is an English comedian actor, author, and singer-songwriter who found immediate fame with Monty Python's Flying Circus. Following their TV success, the group began making films, which include Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). Idle, who also founded The Rutles, authored the smash Broadway musical Spamalot, which won three Tonys.
While in town for promoting his new sortabiography "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", Idle sat down to talk about his illustrious career. Not a dull moment when Eric discusses music, comedy, TV, cinema and the #1 funeral song in the UK.
Get the book here: goo.gl/vCq8J8
Moderated by Yigal Petreanu.

Пікірлер: 64

@DJ-bj8ku 5 жыл бұрын

Moderator: “Now we move to comedy?” Love it. Eric Idle carried this interview with such generosity, intelligence and wit.

@webbess1 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that George Harrison shirt is going to come up, since he and Idle were good friends.

@disideratum 5 жыл бұрын

omfg GOOGLE. The best guest EVER. You can stop the series now. You can't top Eric Idle. (I do feel bad for the poor interviewer who was obviously starstruck to the point of panic. Thank goodness Mr Idle is so gracious. John Cleese or Terry Gilliam would've walked out in less than 10 minutes. Terry Jones would have just gotten incomprehensibly drunk.)

5 жыл бұрын

dude stop drooling all over yourself

@Brian-uy2tj 2 ай бұрын

How can this talk have only 28K views after 5 years? I always enjoy Eric Idle's talks even if the interviewer always wants to cover the same ground. While Eric says a lot of the exact same things in the exact same way, (who wouldn't after 50 years of covering the same limited topic, right?) he always manages to throw in something new, interesting and funny.

@PerspectiveEngineer 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric!

@ThomasTheFapEngine 5 жыл бұрын

Don't fire Yigal, just as long as he knows when the crowd is laughing at him because he moved on quickly it ain't a bad thing. Great interview

@helloInternets 5 жыл бұрын

The obvious segway with a python is, "And now for something completely different."

@marjoryjenkins4496 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke. Thanks Eric!

@fannie925 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric! Thanks Eric!

@SugaryCecilia 3 жыл бұрын

love

@movielover4244 4 жыл бұрын

Eric is an icon

@comfrey11 4 жыл бұрын

Well, Yigal Petreanu made me laugh just as much as Eric Idle did. Great interviewer and brilliant interviewee!

@alanlawrence2954 Жыл бұрын

Fwow him to the gwound! Centurion: What? Fwow him to the gwound!

@micheliny11 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric! Thanks Eric!

@wardis8303 3 жыл бұрын

I read his book just a week ago, what a great read, he always was a funny man, and clever with it beyond belief. Eric has had a great life, the “ life of Eric”, thank you Eric and python

@marcym.greene2727 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke. Thanks Eric! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric!

@timc7035 2 жыл бұрын

That guitar is a real tease.

@jonssonwesslenjonssonwessl1695 5 жыл бұрын

Icon

@mujtaba1 5 жыл бұрын

Great interview, I think the interviewer did a good job as well. The flow and direction of the interview was expertly guided.

@carolinis123 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the speaker in google who talked to John Cleese, this interviewer doesn´t have rhythm...

@mickzivpetreanu3267 3 жыл бұрын

Yigal petreanu was amazing! i would like to see someone interview him in the future

@mannqwthanhqtb2827 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke.

@danglankhue4251 4 жыл бұрын

The obvious segway with a python is, "And now for something completely different." Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Thanks Eric! Thanks Eric!

@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the Queen has heard British people say 'shit' once or twice, maybe not much more than that.

@electricmojo5180 3 жыл бұрын

have he met robert deniro ?

@alanlawrence2954 Жыл бұрын

When KZfaq really meant Your Tube, and not State Approved Tube.

@carlosnavarro1091 3 жыл бұрын

Who the f. .. chooses the interviewer???

@barrycross2585 Жыл бұрын

I am only watching this because of Eric Idle, and I am still desperately hanging in there. I don't know who this interlocutor is, and I have never seen this Talks at Google. But I really find the approach really annoying, with the questioner intensely irritating.

@WilliamPGoss 4 жыл бұрын

Please get another moderator, this guy is aweful, he’s ruining the interview Icon Nice bloke. The obvious segway with a python is, "And now for something completely different."

@robedgington8420 5 жыл бұрын

Please get another moderator, this guy is aweful, he’s ruining the interview

@NicholasLittlejohn 5 жыл бұрын

Yea he needs to study how to interview and let the subject speak.

@tolaga9172 5 жыл бұрын

You are a little too harsh. You are right, that he is not very good. But Eric Idle saved the interview anyway.

@oporangepickle7413 5 жыл бұрын

you wrote "Awful" wrong!!!!!

@darrenc3979 5 жыл бұрын

Moderator's only mistake was setting up the audience to expect a rapid fire questions. packed a lot of great questions in a fun interview.

@jestermoon 2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine how would you feel interviewing your hero? He needs more time yet he squeezed 50 years into half an hour. Props

@Shoeg4zer 5 жыл бұрын

Elvis is from Memphis, not Nashville.

@grimmj0ker 5 жыл бұрын

He is from Tupelo Mississippi....he lived and died in Memphis...I know this because I'm from Memphis. ..

@Madmen604 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart.

@douglaskalberg8899 5 жыл бұрын

Making The Life of Brian about Muslims would be a challenge, especially the permanent hiding after. If you're a Muslim, you'd be in even graver danger.

@kemce100 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke. The moderator has zero sense of rhythm !

@ninaerjavec7220 5 жыл бұрын

Please get another moderator, this guy is aweful, he’s ruining the interview Icon Nice bloke.

@minoxidous 5 жыл бұрын

What a lovely interviewer 🙄

@clarkkent4734 Жыл бұрын

'KZfaq comments are more interesting than the videos'... Who hired this guy? Seriously. That was genuinely insulting to the guest who's videos you were referencing. Sadly, it was Eric Idle in this instance.

@haroldfloyd5518 3 жыл бұрын

worst interviewer in history. he didnt listen to a single word Idle said, no follow up questions, no flow. had to turn it off.

@ericmalone3213 Жыл бұрын

Eric Idle isn't quite accurate about his generation of comedians "moving into a blank field", as The Goons (whose LPs were produced by George Martin) had set the precedent for Monty Python's Flying Circus (& John Cleese had worked on The Goon Show). What we nowadays recognize as "Python humor" wouldn't have been possible without Spike Milligan's work in the 1950s and '60s.

@WritingDialogue 4 жыл бұрын

Geezus Google, you couldn't find a better moderator than this? Was he just the closest to the stage? Awful. Truly awful.

@pleximanic 5 жыл бұрын

The moderator has zero sense of rhythm !

@igorsilva-rc9jw 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. The moderator has zero sense of rhythm ! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke.

@babbarr77 3 жыл бұрын

Google sucks....the soul from America.

@burtalex1573 4 жыл бұрын

What a lovely interviewer 🙄 The moderator has zero sense of rhythm ! Yes, Canada loves you! Most of us know at least one bit by heart. Nice bloke.

@l.washingtonjean1597 4 жыл бұрын

What a lovely interviewer 🙄 Please get another moderator, this guy is aweful, he’s ruining the interview Icon Nice bloke.

@josepalacios7585 5 жыл бұрын

Please get another moderator, this guy is aweful, he’s ruining the interview Elvis is from Memphis, not Nashville. The moderator has zero sense of rhythm !