Eric Idle, of Monty Python, was in the audience that night, and he said it was “a ruthless crowd. Quite funny people were being booed off and howled off within seconds of going on. And then Robin came on, and he was just breathtaking. He was being heckled and got the whole audience to pray for the death of the heckler. He was merciless, the way he went after him. And it was just great to see a real professional, totally comfortable at dismissing these drunken louts who thought they had something to say.”
