Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

by Eric Idle

“Always remember doctors are just ex–medical students.”

I was thirty-three before I realized I couldn’t shag every woman in the world. Some of them were going to have to remain disappointed.

The miracle of Brian is that it got made at all, which was entirely due to the generosity of George Harrison. Asked why he mortgaged his Henley home to pay for the entire $4.5 million budget of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, he said, “Because I wanted to see the movie.”

the problem with Christianity was the followers, who would happily put each other to death at the drop of a dogma.

Sue Jones-Davies, a Welsh actress, played Brian’s revolutionary girlfriend Judith. She was fiercely naked in one of the scenes. When the movie was first released in her hometown of Aberystwyth in North Wales, the local council banned the film from public screening. Thirty years later she became the mayor of Aberystwyth and overthrew the ban. Isn’t that great?

Steve Martin, a philosophy graduate, said that life exists so the Universe can experience itself.

“Robert, when do you learn your lines?” Robert replied, “Oh, usually by the third take…”

a laugh is exactly what you need for sadness.

the end is inevitable, you have to embrace your fellow time travelers even as they slip away.