always look on the bright side of life by eric idle

When you start the play again, people have had a drink they want to sit down and relax and know they are in good hands. “ Mike Nichols always wanted it as an encore,” Idle said. “Bright Side” would go on to be a featured number in the Holy Grail–inspired stage show Spamalot, which won the Tony Award for best musical and is on a quest to be adapted for the big screen. A BBC DJ later began playing it daily on his morning show, Idle noted, and the song became a belated Top 10 hit in 1991. (Birmingham City fans to Wolverhampton Wanderers: “Always shit on the old gold and black.”). But the song experienced a resurgence in popularity when fans of various British football clubs adopted it to taunt the fans of opposing teams, oftentimes substituting their own profane lyrics. Released as a single to promote the film, “Bright Side” was initially a commercial flop. Eric was standing there like a proud parent.” When it ended literally everyone insisted they play it again. People were laughing and nodding their heads to the music. I thought, This has got to be ‘Bright Side.’ The closer I got, I started picking up the words. One day I was walking around the set.and then I heard this music coming through speakers. “They didn’t look as impressive as they actually sounded. “The words to the song were in the script,” Johnson told Vanity Fair. Kim “Howard” Johnson-a Python diehard who parlayed his fanzine into an invitation to visit the troupe in London and, ultimately, an offer to work on the film-was present at its first public performance on the Life of Brian set in Tunisia. The cast and crew gave “Bright Side” a much better response. “They were always pretty snobby about my writing,” he said. JustĪ Maentry in Michael Palin’s published diaries, The Python Years, suggests that initially, the song got a less-than-enthusiastic reception from the rest of the troupe. We watched a lot of those Hollywood movies, like King of Kings, that gave us a way into the parody. We looked at the one with the very strange stories that had been cut out of the Bible, which is really wild. We did about three or four weeks of research where we read the Dead Sea Scrolls and books about the Bible. “It was virgin territory, which is great for comedy. “When we got back to London, there was a Chinese meal, and John was particularly keen on exploring the subject of religion,” Idle said. But on further thought, the rest of the Pythons- John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam-began to consider this a rather splendid idea.

He replied off-the-cuff: “ Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory.” It got a big laugh. While celebrating the opening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at a party in New York, Idle told me, he was asked about the team’s next movie. In the beginning was the joke, and it was good.

Always look on the bright side of life by eric idle