Upper-class twits, deadly bureaucrats, oleaginous salesmen, pedantic bores, establishment perverts, heroic stoics, Panglossian optimists: Python gave all these British stereotypes a surreal twist. Idle, 79, has lived in Los Angeles for decades, but few understand Britishness like him. I’m British! You try not to show emotions in the face of danger.” And when it’s on yourself it’s even funnier.”ĭid he really respond with laughter or did the tears come first? “No, I didn’t cry till I knew I was going to live. That was the fucking plot! So I had to laugh. “I said: ‘What’s the quickest way to get rid of a character?’ and he said: ‘Pancreatic cancer.’ This is the same doctor who ended up diagnosing me. (It hasn’t been.) The basic plot was simple – a man writing Death: The Musical finds he is dying. Death: The Musical became his obsession, even though countless people told him it didn’t work and would never get made. About 15 years ago, he started working on a project. His medical team has now told him that thanks to early diagnosis and surgery, he’s likely to be around for the foreseeable. Idle revealed that three years ago he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and that he has come through it. But it was only last week that we discovered what a survivor he is. After all, it’s 53 years since Monty Python formed, and the bunch of absurdist jokers are still regarded as the Beatles of comedy.
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