Eric Idle

I put on the TV Sunday night and found that for some bizarre reason Eric Idle's elderly grandmother was at the Olympics singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Then I realized that Eric Idle's elderly grandmother was Eric Idle. Clearly he dressed up as a woman one time too many and it stuck.

At one point during Eric Idle's elderly grandmother's dreadful little Olympics number, a whole bunch of wimple-wearing nuns were prancing around, and a couple flashed their Union Jack underwear. Nuns? Still? Really, Eric? You don't think that "comedy" well has long gone dry? Does this sad little fossil still pat himself on the back for his wicked sense of humor? How about a bunch of roller-skating Muslim chicks in full Cousin Itt burqas flashing their underwear for all the world to see? Nah. Brave Sir Robin wanted to get out of the parking lot without having all of his little old lady parts blown to smithereens.

I am reminded as I dump on Grandma Eric Idle of an infuriating scene that was cut out of Life of Brian that was horribly anti-Semitic and equated Jews with Nazis. It's amazing and appalling that it made it into the script, let alone nearly into the film. And folks wonder why I wish Monty Python had stopped producing material with Holy Grail in 1975.