Always look on the bright side of life: a sort of biography. Eric Idle. 2018.

From his childhood in an austere boarding school, hee came of age as a writer and comedian during the Sixties and Seventies, rubbing shoulders with the likes of George Harrison, David Bowie and Robin Williams, and going on to have a hugely successful career in comedy, television, theatre and film. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving Mike Nichols, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Paul Simon and many more, as well as the Pythons themselves, Eric captures Mad time of tremendous creative output and shares the highlights of his life and career with the kind of offbeat humour that has delighted audiences for five decades. This is a memoir chock-full of behind-the-scenes stories from a high-flying life.