Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song.
"Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… It’s a new song, it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars."

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Eric Idle was the nicest of the six members of Monty Python. He was born in the North of England well when I say the nicest he wasn't absolutely the nicest. Michael Palin is generally recognised as being the nicest. Actually Terry Jones is pretty nice too and certainly he's very nice at parties. It's probably fair to say that he is at least as nice as Michael Palin at parties. Come to think of it Terry Gilliam can be fairly nice as well. Especially abroad. In fact he is super nice abroad. Perhaps almost too nice. That Graham Chapman was a nice man and even John Cleese is a lot nicer than he used to be. In fact I'd stick my neck out and say that nowadays John Cleese is probably amongst the nicest of them all. So.

Eric Idle is the sixth nicest member of the old Monty Python group. He was born in the North of England what's so great about being nice anyway? Many fine people have lived richly fulfilling lives without having to worry about being nice. Nobody said Mozart was "nice." They didn't say "I loved Shakespeare's Hamlet but what a nice guy he is." In fact many great artists weren't very nice at all. I forget my point.

Oh yes, my point is - so what if I wasn't the nicest? It doesn't mean I didn't have a lovely life with a wonderful wife and a loving son and daughter. It doesn't mean my puppy doesn't love me. It doesn't mean I didn't have any friends. You see. Actually I didn't have many friends. But the friends I did have thought I was nice. Well not "nice" nice. But nice enough to have as a friend. I expect.

Let's just agree to leave the nice thing to one side. Eric Idle, while not being necessarily the nicest of the Monty Python group was born in the North of England during World War Two. He went to a not particularly nice boarding school in Wolverhampton from the age of seven. That's not going to make you very nice is it? He attended Nice College, Cambridge, oh all right Pembroke College, Cambridge and became President of the Footlights (just like Peter Cook and no one ever accused him of being nice did they? He'd have laughed in their faces if they had. "Don't you call me nice you daft old git" he'd have said, in that funny voice, and he'd have been absolutely right.)

Eric Idle was born in the North of England and etc etc Cambridge. During the sixties and early seventies he was occasionally mistaken for Peter Cook. He now lives in California and is occasionally mistaken for Gene Wilder. He is still not particularly nice.