A review by ginnykaczmarek
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle

3.0

Listened to this on a long road trip as a fun romp through Idle's life and career, particularly Monty Python's history and beyond. Read by Idle, his cheekiness and intelligence shines through, particularly in fun little asides with Michael Palin (only one or two; it's not a full-on comedy routine). The name-dropping of famous friends and fabulous locations starts to get a little tiresome, though Idle makes fun of that, too, realizing it's kind of obnoxious but trying to show that celebrities are ordinary people, and he's just telling it as it is. Yacht trips with David Bowie and private islands with Mick Jagger and parties at George Harrison's mansion and all.