John Cleese v. Graham Chapman

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Reg v. Brian. Discuss.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

I miss Graham :(

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Bill Oddie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

You wannu 'ave babies? YOU CAN'T 'AVE BABIES! Where's the foetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it inna box?!

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

"It's symbollic of our struggle against the oppressors!"
"It's symbollic of 'is struggle against reality"

I fucking love Reg.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to the popular front, Reg?

He's over there.

SPLITTER!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 15 April 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

I love Graham Chapman. He and Idle are(were) my favourite Pythons.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 April 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

"Are you the Judean People's Front?"

"Fuck off!"

"What?"

"Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk."

"Wankers!"

"Can I...join your group?"

"No. Piss off."

― Father Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 15 April 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

I suspect Graham was a lot more fun to know, though more demanding as well as his alcoholism took over.

His 'A Liar's Autobiography' is uneven, but mostly great. Some quite entertaining potshots at fellow Pythons, such as his theory that John Cleese was at heart a unconsciously repressed homosexual attracted to Michael Palin.

Sample extract:

"On my way past the reception desk I said, 'Good grief, there's no one to go to bed with...Where are all the young men round here? This is absolutely dreadful.' I went to my room and fell drunkenly onto the bed alone.

I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find the nightporter in bed with me, nude. He wasn't my choice of person, but under the right circumstances he was welcome. He had let himself in with a pass key, and faithful to the hotelier's code, put customer satisfaction first."

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Bless 'em both. But both sounded like they'd have been/are hard to live with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 April 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Cleese gets bonus points for doing the Dead Parrot sketch at Graham's funeral.

But I can't really decide.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Chapman does give a lovely performance in Brian. Very nuanced, very sympathetic. He was on the wagon at the time, as I understand it.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

chapman was probably the one who could have been the best actor (except for may palin). and maybe wouldn't have turned into a commerical whore like cleese. so he wins.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Buy John Cleese's home for http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hotprop/la-hmw-hotpropcleese26-2008aug26,0,2084607.story0.75 million.

Monkey presumably not included:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-08/41850712.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

Ugly linking, but you get the idea.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

That primate is the worst tribute to Graham Chapman I have ever seen. :(

― Abbott, Thursday, 28 August 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

That ain't no monkey...
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/Fy9WlqZ6TtM/John+Cleese+Meets+Colin+Lemur+Bristol+Zoo

― ledge, Thursday, 28 August 2008 08:39 (seventeen years ago)

Colin the Lemur goes quantity surveying...

― Mark G, Thursday, 28 August 2008 08:45 (seventeen years ago)

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