Idle, Eric

Summary: From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B IDL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 Idle

Idle, Eric

Summary: Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in a memoir that takes us on a journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving close friends and luminaries, he captures a time of tremendous creative output with equal parts hilarity and heart. The year 2019 marks the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IDLE, ERIC IDL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B IDLE IDL

Summary: The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIK

Summary: The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MON

Summary: Taped Hollywood Bowl performance including the Luberjack song; Philosophers song; Colin "Bomber" Harris, the man who wrestles himself; Never be rude to an Arab; Crunchy frog; silly walks; nudge nudge; sit on my face and other comedy sketches. Live at Aspen: 1988 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E 2001

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Monty

Contents: Tuning -- Overture -- Historian's introduction to act I -- Finland ; Fisch schlapping dance -- Monks chant ; He is not dead yet -- Come with me -- Laker Girls cheer -- The song that goes like this -- He is not dead yet (playoff) -- All for one -- Knights of the Round Table ; The song that goes like this (reprise) -- Find your Grail -- Run away! -- The intermission -- Historian's introduction to...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Broadway 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MON

Black, Clint.

Contents: Bob away my blues (3:04) -- Are you sure Waylon done it this way / with Waylon Jennings, vocals (5:54) -- Hand in the fire (4:36) -- Outside intro (to galaxy song) / with Eric Idle, vocals (0:40) -- Galaxy song (2:21) -- When I said I do / with Lisa Hartman Black (4:29) -- Been there / with Steve Wariner (5:27) -- Dixie lullaby / with Bruce Hornsby (3:18) -- Where your love won't go (2:44) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BLA

Summary: Includes episodes 1-13 from season 1, 14-26 from season 2, 27-39 from season 3, 40-45 from season 4 of the British television series broadcast from 1969-1974.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COM

Summary: "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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Enterprises 2011

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEO

Summary: Surreal, sketch based TV comedy series. Two series were produced in 1967 by the commercial company Associated Rediffusion. In style and content, a forerunner of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', which shared some members of the cast.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tango Entertainment 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AT

Contents: Haunted mansion / directed by Rob Minkoff -- The Country Bears / directed by Peter Hastings -- Tower of terror / directed by D.J. MacHale -- Mr. Toad's wild ride / directed by Terry Jones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment 2012

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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DIS

Summary: Features the recently rediscovered nine episodes of the classic television series that lead to the creation of Monty Python.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tango Entertainment 2005

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DO

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MON

Summary: Monty Python is back to explain The Meaning of Life. Those naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MON

Summary: The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswald memories. For the Griswalds, it's typical holiday road havoc.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie National 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NAT

Summary: In this spoof of the legend of King Arthur, the king recruits the Knights of the Round Table. He is soon joined by Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film. God sends them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter a plague-ridden community, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MON

Summary: The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Monty

Contents: Parrot sketch not included: 20 years of Python -- Monty Python's German Episode #1 (Fleiggender Zirkus #1).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E 2001

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Monty

Summary: The comedy team takes a look at life in in their own unique way at all its stages from before conception to death and beyond.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Monty 2003