Eric Idle Was Asked What's Funny About Trump And His Answer Was No Laughing Matter

Eric Idle, pictured during an interview with Late Night host Seth Meyers in 2024.Comedy legend Eric Idle said he isn’t laughing when it comes to US president Donald Trump.In a new interview with The Guardian, the Monty Python star was asked: “What’s genuinely funny about Donald Trump?”And Eric didn’t hold back.He replied: “There’s nothing funny about Donald Trump. What will be funny is when he leaves office and we have a big party and dance in the streets.”“Trump seems to have no end of capacity for stupidity. I think he’s a treasonous monster who works for [Russian president Vladimir] Putin,” the longtime US resident added, noting he now spends summers in France to avoid the news from America.“I can’t stand hearing about that man every minute of every day. They’re completely obsessed by him in the US. It’s like they’re addicted to him,” he lamented.Donald TrumpElsewhere in the interview, in which Eric answered questions submitted by readers and fellow celebrities, he zinged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (a noted vaccine skeptic) when a reader asked if his school nurse, called “Nurse Idle,” had indeed, as rumoured, been Eric’s mother.“Oh yes, that’s true,” he confirmed. “She did give school vaccinations, and she would have hated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because she knew how important they were.”The comedian’s contempt for Trump is well-documented via his frequent slams of the president on social media.In 2020, he mocked first lady Melania Trump’s leaked “Who gives a fuck about Christmas?” audio by suggesting she duet with him on his song Fuck Christmas.A year earlier, he poked fun at Trump’s struggle to fund his southern border wall, suggesting this Python-esque proposal:Maybe a Border fence with a shrubbery?— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) February 12, 2019READ MORE:Michael Douglas Shares 'Worries' For America Due To Trump Administration'We Always Loathed Each Other': John Cleese Speaks Out After Eric Idle JibesSir Rod Stewart Tears Into Former Friend Donald Trump Over His Support Of Israel

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