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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to looking on the bright side of life,

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Speaker 2: our next guest has it down pat Eric Idle. Of

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Speaker 2: course we're speaking of larger than life, the Monty Python superstar.

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Speaker 2: After decades in the business, he still knows how to

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Speaker 2: pull an extraordinary crowd. We're thrilled to say he's got

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Speaker 2: another show coming to Australia. Welcome Eric, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm very well, thanks and very much looking forward to

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Speaker 3: being in Sydney again a couple of years ago at

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Speaker 3: the State and I'm playing the State again.

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Speaker 2: Lovely brilliant. How do you choose what's going to go

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Speaker 2: into your show? You have such a history. Oh, I

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Speaker 2: love comedy and music.

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Speaker 3: How it I spent two months working on it. I

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Speaker 3: mean it's like it's for like a writing a play. Really,

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Speaker 3: I mean this one, I really let myself go. I've

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Speaker 3: done everything I really love and I'm playing all sorts

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Speaker 3: of things I really like and I have a virtual

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Speaker 3: band coming with me, so it's a bit like a

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Speaker 3: mini it's a one man musical. Weird We're getting So

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Speaker 3: it's going to be you know, comedy, music, philosophy and

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Speaker 3: a fart joke and just the one, just the one, yes,

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Speaker 3: because you only allowed one in show business. Otherwise it's

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Speaker 3: it's low, you know.

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Speaker 4: When yeah, yeah, when you say one man band, always

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Speaker 4: think of those guys you know in the olden days

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Speaker 4: with the drama and the shot and the thing, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, and and that in itself is quite comedic to watch.

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Speaker 3: It is. Indeed, by I have a I have mine

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Speaker 3: all recorded. I'm recorded, I've recorded the bastards. You know,

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Speaker 3: you don't have to bring them with you because certain musicians,

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Speaker 3: you know, they're difficult on the road. They smelly, and

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Speaker 3: they have their needs some things. And so I've got

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Speaker 3: this lovely band. There were the they're the Monkeys band

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Speaker 3: actually largely, and they've been we've been making music together

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Speaker 3: and it's quite fun. So we have a few surprises

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Speaker 3: and we'll be singing some you know, root songs, and

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Speaker 3: I can sing along with them quite nice.

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Speaker 4: So when you say the Monkeys band, like the monkeys,

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Speaker 4: monkeys like monkey monkeys, the.

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Speaker 3: Monkeys, monkeys, Hey, hey, with the monkeys. Really yeah, they're

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Speaker 3: wonderful musicians. And then there's only one monkey left, so

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Speaker 3: they're virtually unemployed. You know, I'm dragging them giving him

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Speaker 3: a big break putting him on the big screen. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a first in showbus have a virtual band, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's just a new first.

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Speaker 1: How brilliant.

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Speaker 2: The poor monkey's going to be left by the single

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Speaker 2: monkey is a remaining monkey.

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Speaker 3: Do you know who the many monkey is? It's no,

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Speaker 3: it's it's Mikey Dolan's No, it's Mickey Dolan and.

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Speaker 4: I wrote when I was a kid in the seventies.

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Speaker 4: It was reported that he had died in the seventies.

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Speaker 3: Really, yeah, a bit of a Paul McCartney room. I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Mickey, I think they're cashing in on that. But yes,

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Speaker 1: there's Mickey.

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Speaker 4: You've been walking around tragically alive all these years.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's a very funny man, by the way, I've

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Speaker 3: met him and I floated him last time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, he's a great guy. Speaking is really funny.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of rumors that aren't true, what's the weirdest one

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Speaker 2: you've ever read about yourself?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I don't know. I think I was once outed

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Speaker 3: by leaving George Harrison's house with Kanye and they said

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Speaker 3: eric I was seen here with mystery blonde who was

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Speaker 3: the caused my wife beating me up? I said it's you,

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Speaker 3: but you know it's the headline. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's you.

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Speaker 3: You can't win, can you? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Without forty seven years, you know, and I gave that

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Speaker 3: woman two of the best years of our life.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing that you're you. The comedy that you guys

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Speaker 2: wrote as young men, as kids, really it's still so durable.

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Speaker 2: So many other comedians from that time haven't aged so well,

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Speaker 2: the jokes haven't aged. What was it that that made

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Speaker 2: yours survive like this?

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Speaker 3: I think because we pleased ourselves. It's a show written

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Speaker 3: entirely by writers, and the writers and you know, the

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Speaker 3: actors entirely wrote it, so it's it's we wrote it

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Speaker 3: only for ourselves. We only only to please ourselves. It

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Speaker 3: was on later at night. The BBC didn't care, they

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Speaker 3: didn't read the scripts, they didn't watch it, and so

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Speaker 3: we very much were able to entertain ourselves, which I

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Speaker 3: think now. We played a lot of jokes on the audience,

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Speaker 3: which I think the audience really liked, you know, so

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Speaker 3: you know, it's still a little bit wild. I think

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Speaker 3: parts of Pythons still are kind of rude and unpleasant,

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Speaker 3: like you know that what was it the meaning of

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Speaker 3: life is still pretty violent and objectionable from time to time,

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Speaker 3: and it people throwing up. So I'm quite proud of that.

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Speaker 3: I think you know that. But we were we were

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Speaker 3: all writers really who got a chance to do our

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Speaker 3: own show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's exactly it. The last time we saw you,

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Speaker 4: you were with John Clace. Has things going now in

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Speaker 4: that the relationship is it.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen him for eight years, so it's been

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Speaker 3: going very well. Actually, the last time I was in Sydney,

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Speaker 3: I was with Sean McCullough's right. Yes, yes, we had

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Speaker 3: a lovely time. I liked him very much, but I

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Speaker 3: couldn't keep because he had his own life, you know,

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Speaker 3: So I'm doing without him this time.

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Speaker 2: Sean had to go on to all with the remaining monkey.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's you can do. You can put them all

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Speaker 1: in like your virtual band, and you collect a vote.

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Speaker 3: I've got virtual people on screen all the time. You

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Speaker 3: know what is going to sing the Lonely Trout? I've got,

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Speaker 3: you know, Stephen Hawkings singing the Gallaxy song. It's it's

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Speaker 3: it's been all. These are all my favorite things in

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Speaker 3: life that I'm putting up on the screen.

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Speaker 2: It sounds funny.

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Speaker 4: Would you would you use it's going be fun would

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Speaker 4: you use a virtual John Clace?

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Speaker 1: Then that begs the question.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I mean, what is a virtual John?

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Speaker 1: Just some tapes of him doing stuff?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm very happy with

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Speaker 3: the people I work with. Now, I work with these

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Speaker 3: young musicians and they're very funny and they keep me young,

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Speaker 3: and you know, it's it's great, and we are going

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Speaker 3: to have the Ruffles on screen and we only have

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Speaker 3: bits of some I'm going to show stuff I've never

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Speaker 3: nobody's ever seen too from Rattlan Weekend television and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. So this is my chance to just you know,

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Speaker 3: play play my favorite things. Really, it sounds that way.

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Speaker 3: You can surprise the audience. You know, I'm surprised.

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Speaker 2: It sounds wonderful.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.

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Speaker 2: Well, tickets to always Look on the bright Side of

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Speaker 2: Life on sound now at BOEM Presents. It's b o

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Speaker 2: HM Presents dot com.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, buy those tickets because you don't want a virtual audience.

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Speaker 1: You do need some people.

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Speaker 2: In there, not just one monkey species.

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Speaker 1: You can't just very It's always such a pleasure to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. It really is.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, nice talking to you. Thank you. I look

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Speaker 3: forward to being I love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, bye bye bye