I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
Eric IdleNo day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric IdleYou could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
Eric IdleNobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Eric Idle