ERIC IDLE has appeared in a variety of guises and disguises—from a writer and actor in the legendary Monty Python TV series and movies to the creator and director of The Rutles, the pre–Fab Four, whose legend will last a lunchtime. He has multihyphenated his way through life assiduously avoiding a proper job. He has written movies, books, novels, plays, and songs popular, political, and scurrilous. Idle has appeared in many movies, on TV, on stage as a comedian, and even as an opera singer (well, Gilbert and Sullivan). Educated at Cambridge University, where he met the other Pythons (some of whom were hiding at Oxford), he has gone on to prove that wasting a decent education can prove highly rewarding. He and his wife, Tania, have a daughter, Lily. Idle has a son, Carey, from a former wifetime. Recently he has cowritten the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical Spamalot! with musical partner John Du Prez, and has directed and starred in Can’t Buy Me Lunch, a further look at the Rutles.
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