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From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the guy who had to permanently retire from the wet T-shirt contest in Daytona Beach so somebody else could win. Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Who said only students get to celebrate spring break? This week, we are giving you a well-deserved holiday from whatever the hell is going on with the help of some amazing interviews from the past few years.
While we elbow aside a bunch of Florida State sophomores so we can be first in line for frozen margaritas, here's a conversation with Eric Idle of Monty Python.
Now, as a longtime Python fanatic, it was a dream come true for me to talk to him, and I only wished he could have joined us in person when we talked in October. Turns out, he felt the same way.
I loved my time in Chicago. I'm married to a Chicago woman, and I have lots of Chicago relatives. So I'm very, you know, I love Chicago. Yeah, that's really great.
It's a good town. And let me put it this way. When you walk the streets of Chicago, we're a very cool, sophisticated place, I know. But do people recognize you and go nuts because they, like me, were Monty Python fans growing up?
Well, luckily, no. I can really spoil your shopping, you know. You get recognized from time to time, and that's just one of the pitfalls of being on television.
I'm curious that when the show came to the U.S. on PBS, it became this huge thing. And I was wondering, was that the initial reaction that Monty Python got in the U.K., or was it more reserved, as we might expect from the stereotype?
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