Monty Python legend Eric Idle says he’d be “proud to be thrown out” of the U.S. if officials take issue with his blistering view of Donald Trump. “I think he’s a treasonous monster who works for Putin,” raged Idle in an interview with The Guardian to plug his first U.K. tour since 1973. Living in Los Angeles on a decades-old green card, the 83-year-old comic likened possible deportation to Charlie Chaplin’s 1952 exile: “I’d be in very select company.” Idle—who survived pancreatic cancer in 2021 and was described by the paper as “thriving”—will hit nine British cities this fall with his “Look on the Bright Side of Life” roadshow. The Life of Brian star retreats to France each summer “because I can’t stand the news,” and claims U.S. border guards eye comedians’ phones for anti-Trump photos. Expect classic Python bits, new songs, and, he promises, at least “one fart joke."
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