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Idle revealed earlier this week that he was struggling financially despite the enormous success of the Monty Python franchise.

John Cleese weighs in on Monty Python row - ...defending Terry Gilliams daughter against Eric Idles claims

John Cleese and Eric Idle have come to blows over their manager - fellow Monty Python co-star Terry...

Comic geniuses, the lot of them. Few people could disagree that the six stars of Monty Python, the troupe behind TVs most surreal sketch show, were all individually brilliant.

One of the surviving members of Monty Python, Eric Idle, had some choice words for Terry Gilliam and John Cleese.

John Cleese is making it clear that he - and a few other Pythons - are in complete disagreement with long-ago co-star Eric Idle, who last weekend slammed manager (and daughter of Python co-founder Terry Gilliam) Holly Gilliam for what Idle suggested were the troupe's dwindling finances.

John Cleese responds to fellow Monty Python, Eric Idle, who recently had some choice words for his old "friends"

Three classic episodes from the hit sit-com have been adapted by its co-creator John Cleese and will premiere in The West Ends Apollo Theatre in May

Three classic episodes from the hit sit-com have been adapted by its co-creator John Cleese and will premiere in The West Ends Apollo Theatre in May

Eric Idle, the comedian, has revealed he still has to “work for a living” at the age of 80, claiming income from the Monty Python back catalogue has tailed off “disastrously”.