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===Idle===
[[Eric Idle]] is known for his roles as a cheeky, suggestive playboy ("[[Nudge Nudge]]"), a variety of pretentious television presenters (such as his over-the-top portrayal of [[Philip Jenkinson]] in the segments connecting the "[[Cheese Shop sketch|Cheese Shop]]" and "[[Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"|Salad Days]]" sketches), a crafty, slick salesman ("Door-to-Door Joke Salesman", "Encyclopedia Salesman") and the merchant who loves to haggle in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''. He is acknowledged as 'the master of the one-liner' by the other Pythons, along with his ability to deliver extensive, sometimes maniacal monologues with barely a breath, such as in "The Money Programme".<ref>Chapman, et. al., p. 14</ref> He is also considered the best singer/songwriter in the group; for example, he played guitar in several sketches and wrote and performed "[[Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]" from ''The Life of Brian''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Palin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Palin |date=2006 |title=Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years|publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |___location=London, England|page=473 }}</ref> Unlike Jones, he often played female characters in a more straightforward way, only altering his voice slightly, as opposed to the falsetto shrieking used by the others. Several times, Idle appeared as upper-class, [[middle-aged]] women, such as Rita Fairbanks ("Reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor") and the sexually
Because he was not from an already-established writing partnership prior to Python, Idle wrote his sketches alone.<ref>{{cite book |title= Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism |first= Bill|last=Cooke |publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|___location=Amherst, New York|year= 2006 |isbn= 9781615923656 |page= 349}}</ref>
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