Eric Idle, who edited this volume, has appeared in a variety of guises and disguises—here he dons his hat as writer and actor in the legendary Monty Python television series. 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 be highly rewarding.



MONTY PYTHON LIVE!
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin
Edited by Eric Idle
Hyperion, September 2009 (World English)
Genre: Popular Culture
Agent: Matt Bialer

Foreign Sale
Poland: Literackie

With the success of “Spamalot” and the rabidity of Python’s fans, it’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since there was a new Python book by all the surviving members. The boys are celebrating what they call their “Ruby Jubilee” with this four-color, fully illustrated trade paperback of insider material, never-before-seen images and Python memorabilia, organized and edited by their US major domo, Eric Idle.

In the seventies, as the Beatles of comedy, the Pythons toured the US, Canada, the UK, and elsewhere—this is their account of their wild tours, with original material from many performance routines and backstage anecdotes from Pythons themselves. In the words of Eric Idle, “Over 200 pages lavishly illustrated and lovingly hand-crafted by ancient comedians in hand-tooled sentences, this book is the final word on the five hundred years that these six men, one girl, half a musician, and an elk toured the then-known world.”