March 29, 1943 –
You initially become funny as a kid because you’re looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that’s all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam’s the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
Eric Idle, comedian and composer, made his first public appearance at Harton Hospital, South Shields, England on this date.
