Eric Idle
Author
Language
English
Description
A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape -- not to mention a brilliant comic's mind -- this diary is chock-full of everything you ever wanted to know about Eric Idle, Monty Python, America, and sleeping on a bus. In these pages, the sixth-nicest Python is cheeky, touching, and funny when recounting the riotous tales of his beginnings, his affectionate reminiscences of his fellow Pythons, traveling the world, and taking us backstage...
Author
Language
English
Description
From Monty Python legend Eric Idle comes this wicked and enthralling comedy
Set during the glorious days of the Bush Empire before they finally invaded and killed irony, The Writer's Cut follows Stanley Hay, a joke writer. He has a girlfriend, a writing partner and a career going nowhere in particular. Wisecracking, ambitious and horny, Stanley decides that he is going to change that by writing a novel. This is where things start to spiral out of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A founding member of Monty Python and creator of Spamalot discusses his absurdly funny memoir of his remarkable journey from childhood in an austere boarding school, coming of age as a writer and comedian during the sixties and seventies, and his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. In conversation with David Hyde Pierce. (Added bonus: Eric is bringing his guitar, and there just might be a sing-along....)
12) Wheelhouse
Author
Publisher
Arista Nashville
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Wheelhouse features ''Southern Comfort Zone,'' Paisley's latest single which has climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard country airplay chart. There are guest appearances by Dierks Bentley, Hunter Hayes, Charlie Daniels, LL Cool J, singer-songwriter Mat Kearney and British actor-comedian Eric Idle. The CD features 17 songs written or co-written by Paisley.
"...perhaps his most ambitious album to date, taking on such hot-button topics as spousal abuse,...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An irreverent spoof of cinema epics and followers of false prophets, this is the tale of a man in Roman-occupied Palestine whose life parallels that of Jesus as he tries to join a liberation movement, because of a fetching young woman, but is unwittingly mistaken for the messiah.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Disc 5. Live from the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar, we present the architect sketch, how to give up being a mason, motor insurance sketch with nude lady, the society for putting things on top of other things, an interview with Raymond luxury yacht, the man who is alternately rude and polite, blackmail, and dung.
Disc 6. Contains the ministry of silly walks, a new cooker, the Pirahna Brothers, jokes and novelties, an enormous hedgehog saying "Dinsdale?",...
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Completed before he died, thirty years ago, this is the newly discovered autobiography of one of the most influential comedians of recent times, Marty Feldman. Marty was a professional writer, and considered himself a writer first, and an actor second. Feldman created a number of immensely successful and influential shows such as Marty, The Frost Report and sketches for Monty Python. He was one of the most essential creative forces in British comedy...
18) Ella enchanted
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a magical world where all children are given a gift at birth by a fairy godmother, Ella is gifted with obedience. Unable to refuse any command, she is often taken advantage of. So begins her quest to free herself. Based on Gail Carson Levine's book.
19) Splitting heirs
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
At a wild party during the '60s, baby Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace is accidentally "misplaced" by his rich hippie mum and dad. When the wrong baby is claimed, the real heir winds up being raised by a poor Pakistani family, while the "heir apparent" grows up in America with a silver spoon in his mouth. Once Tommy Patel learns that he, not Henry Martin is the true Duke of Bournemouth, he'll do anything to get back what he's lost!