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(Daily Mail) Strange Eric Idle surgically sacks John Cleese from production of Spamalot in flap over royalties, sympathises with Cleese's divorced wives. "He's had plenty of money already - he's always in financial crisis"   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line 35
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2011-12-15 08:59:33 PM
The directors of the firm hired to write that headline after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
 
2011-12-15 09:04:36 PM
Such Idle talk is bound stir up more trouble....
 
2011-12-15 09:05:34 PM
So... you ex-wives... are they go'ers?
 
2011-12-15 09:05:43 PM
Apos: Such Idle talk is bound to stir up more trouble....
 
2011-12-15 09:20:53 PM
Spamalot produced by Eric "The Wonder Llama" Idle.
 
2011-12-15 09:21:33 PM
Impasse: So... you ex-wives... are they go'ers?

Nudge, Nudge, wink wink, Say no more.
 
2011-12-15 09:25:34 PM
Saw Spamalot in Vegas with John O'Hurley playing King Arthur. If you ever get a chance to get tickets, by all means, confuse your cat and go!
 
2011-12-15 09:31:38 PM
It's only a flesh wound...
 
2011-12-15 09:57:27 PM
He didn't sack Cleese, he just cut Cleese's pay. Instead of giving Cleese a really, really big check for doing something, he now sends Cleese a really big check for doing nothing. Not a bad deal, IMO.
 
2011-12-15 10:14:23 PM
Rickj : He didn't sack Cleese, he just cut Cleese's pay. Instead of giving Cleese a really, really big check for doing something, he now sends Cleese a really big check for doing nothing. Not a bad deal, IMO.

I expect Cleese's voice-over as God was pre-recorded. So he was paying him for doing one thing long ago, and one thing sort of recently. Now he's just paying him for something he did quite a while ago, and the thing he did recently will be done by someone else presently.
 
2011-12-15 10:42:01 PM
Eric Idle created a legend that will last a lunchtime.
 
2011-12-15 11:12:12 PM
Apos: Such Idle talk is bound stir up more trouble....

:)

I love you and want to father your children.
 
2011-12-15 11:30:12 PM
so is this the part where John sues Eric, Eric sues John, and then Terry manages to sue himself?


/All you need is cash
 
2011-12-15 11:52:53 PM
Grumpy old men, indeed. Pass the bottle of extra-strength Maalox, please.
 
2011-12-16 12:17:18 AM
Idle really needs to apologize for the pile of dog shiat that was "He's Not The Messiah; He's A Very Naughty Boy."
 
2011-12-16 12:23:32 AM
Nih!
 
2011-12-16 12:51:23 AM
Spamalot has made Idle a rich man, meaning he only takes on projects he truly loves. Next up is a film of the play What About Dick? with Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly.


SOLD!
 
2011-12-16 01:06:57 AM
LemSkroob: Spamalot has made Idle a rich man, meaning he only takes on projects he truly loves. Next up is a film of the play What About Dick? with Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly.


SOLD!


Came to say this
 
2011-12-16 01:19:46 AM
I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits!
 
2011-12-16 01:37:43 AM
Gunderson: Saw Spamalot in Vegas with John O'Hurley playing King Arthur. If you ever get a chance to get tickets, by all means, confuse your cat and go!

Is there a Confuse-A-Cat joke in Spamalot?
 
2011-12-16 02:08:03 AM
Just watched John Cleese's "Live from London" show from his so called "Alimony Tour." It was hi-freaking-larious.

/that is all
 
2011-12-16 02:11:56 AM
Idle is my least favorite python... There I said it, now I feel better

/move on Eric
//micheal palin for president
// shut up, you
 
2011-12-16 02:15:11 AM
Gangway Fathead: Gunderson: Saw Spamalot in Vegas with John O'Hurley playing King Arthur. If you ever get a chance to get tickets, by all means, confuse your cat and go!

Is there a Confuse-A-Cat joke in Spamalot?


Great! Now the silly music from that sketch is playing away in my brain. Get Out!
 
2011-12-16 06:50:10 AM
Sounds like John ought to see the vocation guidance councelor...
/lion tamer!
 
2011-12-16 08:55:30 AM
Jacksplatt:

Came to say this


You did not have to go through all that trouble.

/say it, don't spray it?
 
2011-12-16 09:47:12 AM
"John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money, so I gave him a pound to shut up. And he took it. 'Nuff said." -- E. Idle
 
2011-12-16 10:44:56 AM
Can I just say that this is the first time I've been on the internet?
 
2011-12-16 11:21:44 AM
Eric still refuses to discuss what happened in 1975. England once dominated the vinyl-pressed rotational speaker vibration enablers.

If Cleese wants some funds, he can do a 5 minute narrative on the special edition "Meaning of Life (without the restaurant bit)",
a Python movie variant I feel would sell well. He proceeds to out-gross the original by describing it in Cleesian stuccato over a series of calming pictures.

"Welcome. Many of you in the audience have chosen not to view this film for the over-the-top grossness of the restaurant scene.
For this Health and Safety edition, we have lovingly omitted the details such as.."

..

"..and then there's that bit you can see all the way to his spine. We thank you for choosing a less gross version. We now continue with something different."
 
2011-12-16 12:05:42 PM
UNC_Samurai: Idle really needs to apologize for the pile of dog shiat that was "He's Not The Messiah; He's A Very Naughty Boy."

This needs to be said over and over.
 
2011-12-16 12:56:29 PM
Cleese = Total Dick.

the "Paul McCartney" of the Pythons as I have heard it said.

A very funny man mind you...but a total dickhead none the less...
 
2011-12-16 03:05:00 PM
James Scameron: Cleese = Total Dick. the "Paul McCartney" of the Pythons as I have heard it said.

Nah, it's more like:

Cleese = John: the brilliant leader who was/is also a miserable person to be around a large amount of the time

Idle = Macca: the less brilliant member who chafes at being in the Brilliant Leader's shadow, but in the end is happier and wealthier for it

Palin = George: the really nice guy, contributed his fair share, but always overshadowed

Gilliam = Ringo: the supporting character, overlooked in the day, but now rightly considered an important piece of the puzzle

Graham = Brian Epstein: gay, duh

Jones = um.............
 
2011-12-16 10:44:33 PM
Gunderson: Saw Spamalot in Vegas with John O'Hurley playing King Arthur. If you ever get a chance to get tickets, by all means, confuse your cat and go!

I saw the show twice. Beg, borrow or steal. Whatever it takes. Well worth the jail time.
 
2011-12-17 05:06:16 PM
Dear Mr. Idle,

I am prepared to not work for you for significantly less than Mr. Cleese. I several decades experience in not working in many highly desirable fields and am prepared to not work in either artistic, technical, or blue collar jobs.

Regards,

Party Like It's 1975
 
2011-12-17 10:15:03 PM
UNC_Samurai: Idle really needs to apologize for the pile of dog shiat that was "He's Not The Messiah; He's A Very Naughty Boy."

I do not know what this is.

Should I consider this fact a good thing?

Henry Holland

James Scameron: Cleese = Total Dick. the "Paul McCartney" of the Pythons as I have heard it said.

Nah, it's more like:

Cleese = John: the brilliant leader who was/is also a miserable person to be around a large amount of the time

Idle = Macca: the less brilliant member who chafes at being in the Brilliant Leader's shadow, but in the end is happier and wealthier for it

Palin = George: the really nice guy, contributed his fair share, but always overshadowed

Gilliam = Ringo: the supporting character, overlooked in the day, but now rightly considered an important piece of the puzzle

Graham = Brian Epstein: gay, duh

Jones = um.............


+1 very apt comparison.
 
2011-12-19 03:59:15 AM
Party Like It's 1975: Dear Mr. Idle,

I am prepared to not work for you for significantly less than Mr. Cleese. I several decades experience in not working in many highly desirable fields and am prepared to not work in either artistic, technical, or blue collar jobs.

Regards,

Party Like It's 1975


i several decades too!

with a coke bottle
 
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