When you think of a comedy group like Monty Python, you think of funny laughs and easy humor. You don’t often think of the writing that went behind it, which is a tribute naturally to the very people that wrote their stuff! In this video, Eric Idle talks about writing with the rest of the group, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, and then John Du Prez, who became his best writing partner.

It’s interesting to see how writing with a partner can be. It can make writing a creative and beautiful thing or it can become a chore.