Eric Idle
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
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
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....)
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A comic oratorio inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate forty years of Monty Python.
Author
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A 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. Idle is cheeky, touching and funny when recounting the riotous tales of his beginnings, his school days in a Dickensian academy for boys, and his affectionate reminiscences of fellow Pythons, traveling the world, as well as his longtime...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Monty Python are flying again for a final reunion, well, sort of. This hugely anticipated live show took place on June 20th 2014 at the O2 Arena in London. At a combined age of just 357, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin once again take to the stage and perform some Monty Python's greatest hits with modern, topical, Pythonesque twists.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (285 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Phileas Fogg wages his entire fortune that he can travel around the entire globe in eighty days. But before departing on his fantastic journey, the Bank of London is robbed, and he becomes the prime suspect. Pursued by Detective Fix, Fogg must race against time to win the bet and prove his innocence."--Container.
Publisher
Universal Music Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Using unseen photos and footage, ... director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends"--Container.
16) Casper
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
'Ghost therapist' Dr. James Harvey and his daughter Kat arrive at drafty, old Whipstaff Manor. Its greedy owner, Carrigan Crittendon, has hired Dr. Harvey to exorcise the house's apparitions: a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, who's just looking for a friend, and his outrageous uncles Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso (The Ghostly Trio).
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (193 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
National Lampoon's vacation: When a typical American family takes a cross-country vacation, it can only mean one thing: total disaster.
National Lampoon's European vacation: When a typical American family wins a deluxe European vacation tour, it is typical holiday road havoc.