Re: Graham Chapman- Easily The Python Who'd Be The Most Fun On A Night Out?

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Chapman was the best actor of the group.  I wish I was better at detecting his writing style within the Cleese-Chapman offerings.  Cleese obviously had his gripes within the pairing, felt Chapman wasn't pulling his weight once he had collapsed into alcoholism, but this can't always have been the case.

I'd love to have a stronger sense of what Chapman brought as a writer to the Python collaboration.  Does anyone know what has been specifically credited to him?


It's a shame this thread is in HS Art now, but there you go.

[PlanktonSideburns]

whats that tv special where he's ranting at the camera for ages

thats really great, can someone link to that

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Gangrene ( in noticably different voice).

[DrGreggles]

Chapman was the best actor of the group.  I wish I was better at detecting his writing style within the Cleese-Chapman offerings.  Cleese obviously had his gripes within the pairing, felt Chapman wasn't pulling his weight once he had collapsed into alcoholism, but this can't always have been the case.

I'd love to have a stronger sense of what Chapman brought as a writer to the Python collaboration.  Does anyone know what has been specifically credited to him?

Cleese was writing a sketch about a customer returning a faulty item to a shop.
Chapman said the item should be a dead parrot.

I think that's how the partnership worked: Cleese would have a rough outline and do 80-90% of the writing around that, then Chapman would make it sillier (and, dare I say it, more 'Pythonesque').

[Jake Thingray]

whats that tv special where he's ranting at the camera for ages

thats really great, can someone link to that

Is this what you mean? From the early days of Channel Four. Chapman was well suited to C4's early days ethos, another reason to despise the O2 show is it was televised by Murdoch's Evil Galactic Empire.

[Shaky]

That's great, thanks for sharing. Presumably Chapman wrote it with David Sherlock, going by the credits?