Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, composer, singer and writer perhaps best known around the world for his work with the Monty Python comedy troupe and for penning the Broadway smash hit Spamalot. His latest project is What About Dick?, a theatrical performance he describes as being like “Oscar Wilde on acid or like Downton Abbey, only funnier.”
Staged in Los Angeles earlier in the year, What About Dick? was filmed and is available for download today, also known as “Dick Day,” on the show’s website. In addition to Idle, the show features Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, Russell Brand, Tracey Ullman and Tim Curry, among others. You can watch a trailer for it here.
Eric was nice enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule recently and answer a few of our questions.
1. You walk into a bar. What do you order from the bartender?
A good book.
2. Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter?
Me.
3. What’s currently waiting for you on your DVR/TiVO?
Arsenal v Manchester United
4. It’s your last meal — what are you going out with?
Four brunettes.
5. What websites do you visit on a regular basis?
SocceronTV.com
6. What’s the most frequently played song on your iPod?
What About Dick?
7. The first face that comes to mind when you think “punchable”?
A smug tabloid editor.
8. What’s your favorite meme?
What do you meme?
9. Dogs or cats?
Dogs
10. Best concert of your life was…?
The Hollywood Bowl.
11. What book are you most likely to give as a gift?
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
12. What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Married me
13. South Park or Family Guy?
South Guy
14. You have an entire day to do whatever you want. What would you do?
Play guitar, read, swim, dine
15. What movie can you not resist watching if it’s on?
Some Like It Hot
16. Android or iPhone?
Crackberry
17. Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Biarritz
18. The last movie you saw in a theater?
Argo
19. Who was your first celebrity crush?
Dave Brubeck
20. What would you cook if Nic Cage was coming to your house for dinner?
Takeaway. As I’d have to leave.
(Previously: Drew Brees)
(Pic via What About Dick? Facebook page)
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I can tell you with 98 per cent accuracy that by “a smug tabloid editor” he means Piers Morgan. Who is no longer a tabloid editor (on account of that whole “published fake pictures of British soldiers abusing POWs thing”), but is still insufferably smug.
I would also like very much to punch Piers Morgan in the face. He’s so fucking awful. The piece on him in Vanity Fair this month just made him even more unlikeable.
[www.vanityfair.com]
I like that Piers Morgan has the guts to ask the really tough questions. Questions like, why are they paying me? And, have I no shame?
It’s really too bad that the Brits hate Morgan as much or more than we hate him because I really wish they’d take that insufferable douchenozzle back.
I watched him interview the Dalai Lama once. Even he wanted to punch Piers Morgan.
Anybody else picturing a new cartoon series named South Guy? It follows a foul-mouthed fat sociopath married to an inexplicably hot chick while he hangs out with his three equally foul mouthed friends: a black jew, a talking anthromorphic dog who’s the sensible one, and the sexual deviant who no one can understand what he says
It tries to be a social commentary but it gets way too caught up in flashbacks