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Byline: Adam Green
Eric Idle began his career in show business as one of five Oxford and Cambridge lads and one American expat, known collectively as Monty Python, who, with their seventies TV series and a handful of feature films, set the gold standard for surreal, anarchic humor and, along the way, redefined comedy for a generation. The group split up in 1983, after the release of the genially nihilistic Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and Idle struck out on his own, keeping busy as a performer, director, author, and songwriter. (Except for Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, the others have done pretty well, too.) Over the years, Idle has also, he says, ...