He was the first transgender person during the time of Jesus, a show star who sang an astrophysical hymn to our galaxy, a knight of the coconut, the quirky servant of Phileas Fogg, and much more. But above all, he was the half-naked guy with the best gallows humor of all time, who, while hanging on the cross, urged a choir of fellow sufferers to always see the good in life: "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life." Eric Idle, one-sixth of the legendary comedy troupe Monty Python, became immortal with a song about death. It is a fitting life motto for the Brit born during wartime, whose father tragically died in a car accident while returning home from the field, leading Idle to end up in a boarding school at the tender age of seven. Sarcastic and with exactly the kind of wit one would expect from a Python.