There's a fine interview with Eric Idle in The Guardian, where he talks
about the offer from Charles Rex to figure as his official jester:
Is it true Charles asked him to be his jester? “He did. I don’t think he’s
ever quite forgiven me because I said: ‘Why would l want a fucking awful
job like that?’” Was the King being serious? For once, Idle stumbles over
his words. “I, err, erm, I think he was being funny.” I mention the recent
footage of Charles losing his temper over a leaky pen and an ill-placed
pen-stand. “This is why the Queen was so amazing because she did it so
wonderfully and apparently effortlessly. But if you think about the stress
he’s suddenly under … Your mum’s died and now you’re king, for God’s sake.
I think you have to forgive people because they’re still people, they’re
still going to have to die.”
The full interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/03/i-didnt-cry-until-i-knew-i-was-going-to-live-monty-pythons-eric-idle-on-surviving-pancreatic-cancer
Med vennlig hilsen / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld
torgeirfjeld.com/
PhD, European Graduate School EGS | PhD, University of Roehampton | MA,
University of Minnesota | PPU, University of Oslo
Head, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts | Publisher, Tankebanen
forlag | Editor-in-Chief, Inscriptions | Member: BPSA, ISRS, SASS, ACS
Recent publications and presentations:
(2022) A silent trace: Introducing Wolfgang Schirmacher’s philosophy of the
future (Alone Together) | (2022) Bourdieu’s field theory revisited: A case
for ‘national signification’” (British Philosophy of Sport Association) |
(2021) The interpassive roar: the canned spectators of lock-down (Do
Desporto/On Sports, edited by Constantino Pereira Martins) | (2020) Holding
your tongue: the new language of Silence (Paedagogia Christiana) | (2019)
Perversion’s Beyond: life at the edge of knowledge (Atropos Press)
