I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Idle maintains that there was little to do at the school and boredom drove him to study hard and consequently won a place at Cambridge University. Career


Pre-Python career (1965–1969)
Idle attended Pembroke College at Cambridge where he studied English. "
Idle's work in Python is often characterised by an obsession with language and communication: many of his characters have verbal peculiarities such as the man who speaks in anagrams the man who says words in the wrong order and the butcher who alternates between rudeness and politeness every time he speaks.

Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian actor author singer writer and comedic composer.