Monty Python’s Eric Idle Is 80 But Can’t Afford to Retire

Poor Eric Idle. And by “poor Eric Idle,” I mean literally poor — the former Monty Python star is once again lamenting his lack of riches, telling The Times U.K. that “these days everything in showbiz is on YouTube or Spotify so I do have to earn a living. I’d love to retire, but, alas, I can’t.”He blames his old Python pals, specifically the fiscal mismanagement of the group’s earnings, but doesn’t want to get into it. “I’m not getting involved in a to and fro, for me it’s not very important,” he explained. “Sad to say I don’t really care because I’ve got a lot of other things to do in my life.”None of that stopped Idle from getting involved in a to and from earlier this year on social media, complaining on Twitter that, “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamt that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously. I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager you should not be so surprised. One Gilliam…