United Kingdom, July 11 -- Eric Idle has blasted his Monty Python co-stars for being "miserable and horrible and b****y" about royalty payments.

The 82-year-old comic wrote stage show Spamalot, which is based on his 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and he thinks the rest of the comedy troupe - whose survivng members are John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin - should be more "grateful" for the money they receive from the production.

Asked if the other Pythons receive royalty payments, he told The Guardian newspaper: "They got more f****** money than they've ever been grateful for. They got f****** millions and they're miserable and horrible and b****y about it.

"I spent 20 years working for Python and then two years o...