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- James Dyson: "An alternative autobiography by Monty Python’s most creative member, Eric Idle… “The Greedy Bastard” turns out to be warm-hearted, loving and highly intelligent. Would that all writers had his hunger for knowledge and wit in parody." source ↗
Summary
Monty Python's Eric Idle's 2005 account of his cross-country bus tour of America, interweaving diary entries from the road with autobiographical flashbacks to his childhood in a grim English boarding school, his years with the Python troupe, and his friendship with George Harrison. The book captures Idle's sharp comic voice applied to both American roadside culture and his own career.