. >> with their often surreal sketches monty python's flying surkamp us circus would change comedy. >we're off in this show. >> we took it very, very seriously. to be funny. >> it featured five britts, includingeric idle, john glees, michael peyton and gary jones and gill that did the animation produced 45 episodes, five films and a blockbuster musical. >> we ran for almost five years. >> aye, your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elder berries. >> the film, monty python and holy grail was adapted by spamlot which opened in 2005. >> do you remember opening night. >> very well. all of the python's cast. >> it's interesting i always thought of it as the writing that made python special. the material in the grail is really funny. i part in your general direction people still go to that castle and laugh every day. >> it was idle who wrote this memorable python sketch originally for another comedy. >> was initially rejectd. >> mercifully because if you read it, it's not funny. there's no jokes in it. but the way you play it, then it's funnier. >> eric idle wasn't born to com

i'm hoping to conquer american funerals shortly. >> in 2014 the surviving cast members of monty pythongs. otherwise it's like five geriatrics. sipping their drinks. >> how did you feel about saying good-bye? >> it was powerful. it did feel like a good way to say good-bye and a good time to say good-bye. >> but it's not quite good-bye because all four seasons are on netflix and idle is working on a film version of spamalot. >> and it will never die because you have to quote the holy grail whenever you can as i did yesterday. we are the knights who say -- we'll call it a draw. >> she taught me that. >> i did, i did. >> never seen the movie. >> i still remember when the show came on the air in america and i was in college. the entire dorm floor was in the common room to watch. >> as we laughed during the interview. >>> now for something completely different, the dish in a culinary career that took him all over the world, a taste that developed his childhood home. we will speak with chef joey campanaro next. >>> how many wayans are there? >> 50, 51. >> that's what i wonder about -- with th

next guest is a comedy legend who cofounded one of the most beloved comedy groups of all time: monty pythonause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: so nice to see you again. >> you, too. >> stephen: do you remember the first time that we met? i don't assume you would because you know everyone, but i did not know anyone famous when i met you. >> i met you with that stewart fellow, right? >> stephen: right. ( laughter ) it was early on in his ten -- tenure as "the daily show." someone said eric wants to meet you. i thought something happened in my career when eric wants to meet me. >> i'm sorry you lost the beard. >> stephen: you like the beard? >> i love it, because we're casting spam allot, the movie, and i thought sing arthur, you know -- but now you've lost it. i thought maybe the lady of the lake. ( laughter ) >> stephen: arm clad purest shimmeringite. >> you have the legs for it. >> stephen: thank you very much. ( laughter ) you're the author o new book called eric idle "always look on the bright side of life," which you call a sortabiography. >> yes. >> stephen: what's a sortabiography? >>

michael: if you do not let us in, we will tell you again, like the old monty python routine.hey were caught a manipulator, we would have to do with the chinese. but this is part of trade negotiations. it was set in motion a long train which could at some point result in congressionally mandated sanctions, but in the beginning it is a call for negotiations. be betweenwould not the u.s. and china as much as it would be probably in the financial markets, because it would lead it traders to think that the administration is going to ramp up tariffs or a trade war with the chinese. vonnie: china will send its yuan wherever it wants. where does china want this? michael: they do want to add a level in which it is neutral, not affecting their economy one way or the other. the imf told us that they think that is where the yuan is. talking about the seven barrier, the imf suggested it is not going to cross it at this point. chinese officials have made a show of saying, we will not use it to offset tariffs, we will not make a part of the trade war . this is the market pushing us in that

for their time few faced more controversy over this than british comedian monty python. eric idle was a founding python. he has been clapping his coconut for five decades reminding us to always look on the bright side of life. in his new biography, eric finds his voice in the '60s cultural revolution and recounts the famous faces and people he met on the way. a laugh down memory lane. >> you decided on a memoir. why? >> well, our 50th anniversary, monte python, is coming up next year, and i thought we are going to have to answer questions. so let me see what i can remember and write it down before i forget. >> someone else is going to write it if you don't. >> that's the other thing, yes. i mean, winston churchill said history will be kind to me because i intend to write it. >> why do you think monte python lasted 50 years or at least it's still funny? >> that is to me a wonderful mystery. and i think partly it's to do with the fact that it's not rooted in time. like the comedy is generic. they are characters, but they are not like this particular president or like "satur