Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

by Eric Idle

“Life is rather like a yacht in the Caribbean. It’s alright if you’ve got one.”

So much is how you do it.

Unlike the others, he never ever let on that he was being funny. He was always deadly serious, the deadest of deadpans.

“Always remember doctors are just ex–medical students.” He was very funny, and odd in a deeply serious way.

“Schau immer auf die Sonnenseite des Lebens.”*

We may be silly but we’re not stupid.

George Harrison once said to me, “If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles we would have tried harder.” I think the same could be said of Monty Python.

Python isn’t just one type of humor, it is a compendium of styles.