John Cleese answers audience questions with Eric Idle at Live Talks Los Angeles 

And at the end of the day I think they are just trying to make one another laugh.

Friends who are comfortable together - that"s what life is about

I’ve grown up with these guys and the rest of the crew. They are a British National Treasure! My favorite anecdotes are: 1. A sketch has to make them all laugh before it makes it into the movie or show 2. They avoided accusations of religious bias by making sure they offended absolutely everyone!

It's harder to make someone lyou don't know laugh. It's easy to make friends laugh.

Me too. I hope they really share the friendship I imagine them sharing.

@@MalAnders94 - Oh, there you went and #$&king ruined it…

Make friend laugh easy

That’s nice to hear, he is my favorite of the Pythons.

I saw a similar comment on a different Cleese video who said much the same thing about him.

These are the comments I live. Just simply sharing stories :))

What a dream client to have!

That sounds funny!!😅

It's pretty adorable.

Especially since that asshole Murdoch won't seem to die.

@@nancyaustin9516why the hate on that guy

Eric's reply, "I think that means something in Australia - strangling the Murdoch" was brilliant

@@Samfromoneframe He's controlled massive parts of Western print and TV media, and used it to further right wing nonsense, criminal activities and massive theft from the people. Very few men alive today has done more harm to the world then he has.

​@@SamfromoneframeWatch the show Succession. The main actor (can't remember his name) does a great performance as that power mad bastard...

Hardly geniuses, although they definitely think they are.

@@malbig2344 they are geniuses, all of them went to Cambridge

@@malbig2344 comedic geniuses if not in scholastics.

@@malbig2344 and you think you are smart for saying that? Lol. I’ll stick with these two guys over you any day. Being a comedian takes intelligence. Sadly you lack both.

@@hammer-r So says a person that types the idiot "lol".

I'll never get used to how he's so much more foul mouthed as himself than in any of his characters.

Eric Idle is genuinely as funny (if not more so), when he's just being Eric Idle rather than any character on-screen. I know it could be argued that John Cleese has been more successful since Python, but I still think Eric Idle is the funnier of the two. Cleese takes himself far too seriously imo, whereas Eric doesn't seem to give a f**k what anyone thinks of him. And why should he? He just seems to enjoy life, and he can afford to do it so why not? More power to him!

@@DrAnne-mc8er I guess a good half of Cleese's impact is how he delivers devastating humour with a straight face. In the beginnings of the Pythons, his role seemed to be the out-of-place thespian in a group of comedy actors.

@@IlBiggo Yes, I can see what you mean. It's very true and an excellent observation. Actually, your own screen name made me laugh, It sounds like the stage name for a bad magician working the northern clubs or something. Like much of the original Python, it just sounds so stupid, it makes me laugh just saying it. Please don't be offended .

I would hope so, but the tyrants are winning.

And that was the moment you woke up and realized it was all just a dream..?

I wouldn't have thought that would surprise him, I'd think he'd have known that he's Eric Idle

​@@Timodifiying 😂

Wow that is so amazingly and completely not at ll interesting in any way. This video is not about you or who you've maybe met

You're not comment king clown, and I liked it@@slowery43 You've got the opposite of the Python spirit - you're the one in the wrong place.

Or a penguin on the Telly.

you're not wrong!

They've been friends/partners for over 50 years.

@@seanconlon2773 Oh sorry Loretta

Ha, he does look like Ben Franklin.

Well , that adds up 😉☝️

I’m envious that you got to experience this stuff when it was brand new. Wish I grew up when you grew up.

@@SimplyRapMusic If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

@@DrAnne-mc8er I’ll be turning 25 in October.

@@SimplyRapMusic Ahhh to be young again!😊 May your God or Gods bless you Sir. Sadly, I'll be turning 66 on October 14 this year😢. I don't know if you've ever heard older people say it, but time really does seem to go so much faster than it used to as you get older. Being 25 literally seems like nothing more than _;a few years ago'_ (i.e. 5-8 years ago, not 41). But in a way, I do sort of understand, and what's more, agree with what you said above. I'm not just talking about Monty Python of course. I'm talking more generally about you wishing you had grown up in our era. I know I probably sound like an old fart, but life really was so much less stressful, less complicated, and less chaotic growing up in the 60's and 70's. Plus I strongly suspect that we were the most fortunate generation *ever* as far as being able to buy our own homes with such relative ease. I genuinely don't understand how young people today, can be expected to afford to buy a home of their own? I mean apart from the high deposits required, the monthly mortgage repayments are just through the roof compared to how they used to be. From way back to when my own parents bought their very first home (in 1955), to when we bought our first home in 1978, there was a 5% deposit required, and you could borrow *up to* 3.5 x your annual income before taxes as a mortgage. And that was relatively easy, even for our household, which like most others, only had one parent working full-time. Usually the husband, while wives took care of the home and bring up the kids. So at the time, remember this was 1978, my husband was on typical average pay of around £6,200 ($8,000). That meant we could borrow a mortgage of 3.5 x that, i.e. £21,700 ($28,200). Plus the 5% deposit up front. Our first home was a smallish 3 bedroom town house, on the market at just £13,500 ($17,550). In other words, just over twice our annual income. House prices today have clearly and evidently gone up much *much* faster than wages. It's disgusting really! Anyway, apologies for rambling on. Good luck and my very best wishes for you in the future SRM x

@@DrAnne-mc8er That was an amazing little read! Thank you for the insight and best of luck to you too!

Yes, and we can buy tickets to see them, but we won't be able to hear what they say!

..unless someone kills you...

You love him so much you don't know his name.

Murdoch?

@Graxxor Anandro Vidhelssen That is the point about Pythons. They hit only the intelligent ones...

That sounds twice as funny

@Graxxor Anandro Vidhelssen That is one of the funniest things I've ever heard

@@urosmarjanovic663 biggus dickus. I think you're holding your own intelligence to a far higher regard than it deserves. They hit all faculties of comedy.

Now I want to see the joke-explainer ... sounds like the funniest bit .. but it'd probly be lost in translation. (or gained.)

Yes, absolutely genuine and from the heart it seems. He's great.

I was already laughing in the first 30 seconds!