Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

by Eric Idle

the memoirs of a failed pessimist.

a ferry ride across the River Mersey

It was a physically abusive, bullying, harsh environment for a kid.

We were being repressed,

if you’re brazen, nobody questions you.

something slightly completely different

(I got better.)

“Even the famous have to die,” although I think in America they do suspect it gives you a pass on the death thing.

Notice how cleverly I introduced the fact that I know her. That’s name-dropping at its finest, as I said to Prince Charles only the other day.

It is the power of ritual within us that is so important,

In conversation, he was so fast you could barely get a thought out before he would seize it, gloss it, show you the opposite, turn it upside down, show you the left and right of it, run multiple variations on it, and then, properly examined, hand it back to you.

always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.

I hope I remember this