Graham Chapman

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1. 1941 age 0

   Born

2. 1971 age 30

   CreditAnd Now for Something Completely Different

   CreditAnd Now for Something Completely Differentscreenwriter

3. 1975 age 34

   CreditMonty Python and the Holy Grail

   CreditMonty Python and the Holy Grailscreenwriter

4. 1979 age 38

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brian

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brianproducer

   CreditMonty Python’s Life of Brianscreenwriter

5. 1983 age 42

   CreditMonty Python's The Meaning of Life

   CreditMonty Python's The Meaning of Lifescreenwriter

6. 1989 age 48

   Died

• JCJohn Cleese5 titles
• TGTerry Gilliam5 titles
• TJTerry Jones5 titles
• MPMichael Palin5 titles
• EIEric Idle5 titles
• CCCarol Cleveland5 titles
• JDJulian Doyle3 titles
• IMIan MacNaughton2 titles
• NINeil Innes2 titles
• JYJohn Young2 titles

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• It's fear. … There's no point in it. We should just love each other, and do it in our own way. That's the only thing that's important.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think … [what attracted me to show business] was the early radio shows. I was an avid listener to radio shows like Take It from Here; before that, Jewel and Warriss, Hancock, all sorts of radio shows. And then, later—when I was around thirteen, fourteen—The Goon Show, of course. Here came a show which was not like any of the other shows. It didn't have the same kind of rules. It didn't have any rules. It didn't even like the medium that was putting it out, particularly; it didn't like the BBC. Wonderful! There was something I could relate to, and did.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The very first day of filming of The Holy Grail, in fact, we were halfway up a mountainside in Glen Coe, and I hadn't gotten my daily dose, and it was seven o'clock in the morning that we left the hotel. The bar wasn't open; I hadn't realised this, and hadn't gotten anything prepared the night before that I should have if I'd researched my drinking properly. And so I had DTs on the mountainside while having to try and remember lines and (uh) stand up. … It was then that I decided next time that I do a job like this I'm going to be clean for it. It's not fair to the other chaps in the group, it's not fair to me, it's not fair to what I've written, and it's very stupid.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Once the decision had been made, once I decided to stop [drinking], it was easy—except for the … three days of unpleasantness, of—well, of having things crawl all over me and hallucinating. … One of the worst things was not being able to remember if I'd slept or not, whether I was dreaming, or whether I was awake. I didn't know.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [My parents] came to grips with the drinking … much more easily, I think, than [with my sexuality]. Yes. But, things are rather better now than in those days, of course. It was some time ago. And now, even the Church of England, I think, regards a homosexual as merely being handicapped.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was one occasion when John Cleese and myself actually felt guilty about laughing at something we were writing, because it was in incredibly bad taste. So bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it. It concerned a gentleman walking into … an undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack. And from there it got worse.

  Graham Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0