| And always look on the bright side of life A few laughs and some unbidden whistling, a great way to kick off the New Year: Always look on the bright side of life If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten! There are chapters that were very good but in my opinion too much was made of his famous best friends, mentioned with every breath | Now, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this entertaining memoir that takes us on an unforgettable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film |
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| Eric Idle tells the story of his career as a comedian and a beloved member of Monty Python with the wit, grace, and humor one might expect | Humor, silliness, and laughter in the end saves us all |
You know what they say.
22| But I may have to rethink my loyalty now as I come to understand how much of their truly great material was written by Idle | Always a Look on the Bright Side of Life is Eric Idle's sort of autobiography |
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| Everyone is constantly inviting them to vacations in the South Pacific or the Caribbean, lending them houses in the south of France or Mustique or London or New York | His father, too, had not returned from the war |
A few laughs and some unbidden whistling, a great way to kick off the New Year: Always look on the bright side of life If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten! He tells about rough times too, his mistakes, heartache,and the best of times.
| You know, you come from nothing You're back to nothing What have you lost? Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true, You'll see it's all a show, Keep 'em laughing as you go | I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did! This book has some interesting vignettes and a few good lines of the, 'Take my wife please! The song opens with an introductory verse half-sung with an acoustic guitar backing on the soundtrack album and most subsequent versions, though simply spoken unaccompanied in the film itself : Some things in life are bad, They can really make you mad |
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| It just read like a list of successes and famous people to hang out with hello, Mick Jagger and George Harrison! They always seemed funniest when together, a chemical reaction that brought lightness into a dark world | Its appearance at the end of the film, when the central character seems certain to die, is deliberately Irony |
I would have liked to hear more about the creative development of the various skits and less of the hobnobbing.
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