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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
— Eric Idle
Tags: mother, you, funny, love

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To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
— Eric Idle
Tags: me, good, best, funny
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
— Eric Idle
Tags: day, my-life, me, life
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
— Eric Idle
Tags: bounce, listen, audience, try
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
— Eric Idle
Tags: laugh, people, me, funny
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
— Eric Idle
Tags: america, you, freedom, good
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