I want to do a little lightning round of how you look at them now in these sketches. Let me start with the wink wink. Is your wife a goer? Aye. Not a mean. Nunch, nunch. No one am mean. Biggie for them. Does she go? She's sometimes go. I bet she does. Say no more. You're very... So you're very tropical,. It's tropical, exactly. You parodied everything. And because of that we couldn't afford horses anyway - so everybody had to have coconuts as they could not afford horses. Although I wonder where you got coconuts in Scotland at that time of year.
Should anything be off-limits in comedy? Kara and Nayeema discuss this question, and the recent Dave Chappelle SNL monologue, before Kara’s interview with our guest today: writer-comedian Eric Idle who is an OG in the craft. When he and his fellow sketch artists launched Monty Python on the BBC in 1969, it was unclear whether anyone would even watch. Now there are generations of Python fans. Today, Idle talks about what made Monty Python unique and how they pushed the line and the social conversation with their unique brand of humor.
Both avid Twitterers, Kara and Idle also discuss their frustrations with Elon Musk (he’s a noted fan of Monty Python, though Idle is not a fan of Musk). And Idle describes how his recent bout with pancreatic cancer has made him a more accepting person.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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