All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
I hope I will have achieved something lasting.
If this one takes off, it could make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. And believe me, my dreams are pretty wild!
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
Monty Python was well-known for pushing and breaking comedy taboos and raising a stir... we were also the first show to do cannibalism as a schtick.
Other people build sketches after taking too many sleeping pills, but I never preferred that method, since I would keep dropping my pencil.
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
We had many concerns while planning Monty Python's Flying Circus... we wanted to avoid being bracketed as being another offshoot.
We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
Yes, clothes dryers are monsters, and more of them should be painted... we did paint the clothes dryer on the set.
You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Graham was best friends with "fellow loonies" Keith Moon (of The Who), singer Harry Nilsson, and Ringo Starr (of The Beatles).
Graham wrote & released his life story in 1978 entitled A Liar's Autobiography, Volume VI.
Graham died on October 4, 1989, just one day before the 20th anniversary of
Graham made his feature film debut (as writer and actor) with Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different.
Graham worked as the producer on the film The Odd Job (1978).
Graham was the co-author (with Barry Cryer) of the play O Happy Day, which was discovered among his manuscripts and produced nearly eleven years after Graham's death. O Happy Day had its world premiere on September 22, 2000, at Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. A portion of Chapman's ashes were in attendance for the premiere.
Graham co-wrote several episodes of Doctor in the House (1969) and it's sequels with John Cleese.
A book on Graham: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman was released in 1999. It was edited by Jim Yoakum.
Graham studied medicine at Cambridge University.
Though he co-wrote "Rentadick" with John Cleese, they insisted their credits be removed from the film when it was released in 1972. John Cleese details the reasons in an interview for Kim "Howard" Johnson's book Life (Before and) After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus.
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