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Eric Idle
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July 14 - July 14, 2019
“Always remember doctors are just ex–medical students.”
George Harrison once said to me, “If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles we would have tried harder.”
It did. A party broke out and, if you can believe this, all of the Rolling Stones turned up. I of course pretended to the Star Wars folk that this was no big deal and happened all the time, but it began an epic night which ended only at 6:00 a.m. when the cars came to pick up the actors for work and the Stones sloped off to hang upside down in their caves. When I saw The Empire Strikes Back, I was so proud. The scene they shot that morning bears the scars of the evening. Carrie lurches out of a spaceship to meet Billy Dee Williams and says, “Hi!” Harrison is still clearly drunk. I remain
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There’s everything in this movie Everything that fits From the meaning of life in the Universe To girls with great big tits. We’ve got movie stars and foreign cars Explosions and the lot Filmed as only we know how On the budget that we’ve got. We’ve spent a fortune on locations And quite a bit on drink And there’s even the odd philosophical joke Just to make you buggers think. Yet some parts are as serious And as deep as you could wish But largely it’s all tits and arse And quite a lot of fish. Other bits are childish And some parts frankly rude But at least we’ve got a lot of nice girls All
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America used to be about the pursuit of happiness, but they seem to have exchanged that for the pursuit of money, fame, and Twitter followers.
the ability to say the wrong thing at the right time, which is what we call humor.
