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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Graham Chapman Monty Python's Life of Brian DVD (2001) John Cleese / Graham Chapman. Religious satire from the Monty Python comedy team. Set during Biblical times, the film tells the story of Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), an accidental messiah whose life runs in eerie parallel to that of Jesus Christ. His misadventures bring him to the attention of Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin) who makes it his mission to capture and crucify him. The cast also includes John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones. REGION 2 (Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland.) INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS WELCOME BUT PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR EQUIPMENT WILL PLAY REGION 2 DVDs BEFORE BIDDING. Perfect, scratch free condition. GRADING INFORMATION. MINT Not a word to be used lightly. All DVDs will be damaged to some extent when they are used, even when great care is taken putting the disc in or taking the disc out of the player. I will only use this word to describe a disc I have reason to believe has never been used, this will usually mean it will be described as new, but the word mint is there just in case I need it. EXCELLENT A disc that looks like it has never been used even though I know it has. Perfect, scratch free condition. VERY GOOD As previously stated, all DVDs will be damaged to some extent when they are used, this usually means that the DVD has rubbed against the tray in the player causing light surface scratches or rub marks. These rarely have any effect on play, in fact any DVD that does have these marks will have been fully tested before it is allowed into the VERY GOOD grade. The best way to describe it is, if you found the DVD in a second hand shop or on a market stall and you checked the disc before buying, you would see the marks but you wouldn't have any doubts about the discs ability to play. 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I'll probably throw it in the bin, but if there is a reason I think this might still be of interest to someone I'll explain the problems and the reasons for bothering with it in the listing. Graham Chapman. Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian . Contents. Education and early performances [ edit | edit source ] Chapman was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, at the University of Cambridge, where he began writing comedy with fellow University student John Cleese. He qualified as a medical doctor at the Barts Hospital Medical College, but never practised medicine professionally. While at Cambridge, Chapman joined Footlights. His fellow members included Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Jonathan Lynn, Humphrey Barclay, and Jo Kendall. Their revue A Clump of Plinths was so successful at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that they renamed it Cambridge Circus (which likely inspired the naming of Monty Python's Flying Circus ), and took the revue to the West End in London and later New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964. The revue appeared in October 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show . Writing for the BBC [ edit | edit source ] Chapman and Cleese wrote professionally for the BBC during the 1960s, primarily for David Frost, but also for Marty Feldman. Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd (starring Roy Hudd), Cilla Black , This is Petula Clark , and This is Tom Jones . Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor then joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show . Chapman, and on occasion Cleese, also wrote for the long-running television comedy series Doctor in the House . Chapman also co-wrote several episodes with Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock. Monty Python's Flying Circus [ edit | edit source ] In 1969 Chapman and Cleese joined Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and American artist Terry Gilliam for Monty Python's Flying Circus . Chapman and Cleese usually wrote together, although both Chapman and Cleese maintain that Cleese contributed most of the actual writing. Cleese and the other Pythons maintain that, while Chapman occasionally came up with an excellent off-the-wall sketch idea (as with the "Dead Parrot" sketch), his most effective contribution to the sketch was an instinctive knowledge of what was funny and what wasn't. Cleese and Chapman's classic Python sketches include the "Cheese-shop sketch”, "Raymond Luxury Yacht", the "Undertakers sketch", the "Argument Clinic" and “Dead Parrot” (Chapman and Cleese also came up with the concept for the "Ministry of Silly Walks" together, though they let Jones and Palin write the sketch). Their humor- noticeably darker, more verbal and sketch-based than that of Jones and Palin- often involved characters in ordinary society behaving absurdly or getting into conflicts for no apparent reason. Chapman most often played characters with personalities close to his own- outwardly prim authority figures (such as doctors, policemen or military officers) barely concealing a manic unpredictability. Like many of the other Pythons, he also often played various "Pepperpots" (screechy-voiced middle-aged women) One of Chapman's most famous characters was “The Colonel”, a stuffy army officer who occasionally appeared from nowhere ordering an end to the sketch for being "too silly". After Cleese left the series in 1973, Chapman wrote alone, although he did work with Neil Innes and Douglas Adams for the fourth and final series. Chapman later played the lead roles in both the narrative Monty Python films, Holy Grail and Life of Brian . Cleese later complimented Chapman by saying, "He was very possibly the best actor of all of us". He then developed a number of television and movie projects, most notably Out of the Trees , The Odd Job and Yellowbeard , in which he starred alongside Cleese, Peter Cook, Cheech and Chong and Marty Feldman, who died during the final days of production. After Python [ edit | edit source ] In the late 1970s, Chapman moved to Los Angeles, where he guest-starred on many US television shows, including The Hollywood Squares , Still Crazy Like a Fox , and the NBC sketch series The Big Show . Upon returning to England he became involved with the Dangerous Sports Club (an extreme sports club which introduced bungee jumping to a wide audience), and he began the first of a lengthy series of US college comedy lecture tours in the 1980s. His memoir, A Liar's Autobiography , was published in 1980 and, unusually for an autobiography, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams, who in 1977 was virtually unknown as a recent graduate fresh from Cambridge. Together they wrote a pilot for a TV series Out of the Trees , and Adams was mentored by Chapman, but they later had a falling out and did not speak for several years. Chapman's last project was to have been a TV series called Jake's Journey . Although the pilot episode was made, there were difficulties selling the project. Following Chapman's death, there was no interest. Chapman was also to have played a guest role as a television presenter in the Red Dwarf episode “Timeslides”, but died before filming was to have started. In the years since Chapman's death, only a few of his projects have actually been released. One such that has, is a play entitled O Happy Day , brought to life in 2000 by Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael Palin and John Cleese assisted the theatre company in adapting the play. He also appeared in the Iron Maiden video, Can I Play with Madness . Personal life [ edit | edit source ] Chapman was an alcoholic from his time in medical school through the 1970s. His drinking affected his performance on the television recording set as well as on the set of Holy Grail . He stopped drinking in December 1977. Chapman kept his homosexuality a secret until the mid 1970s when he famously came out on a chat show hosted by British jazz musician George Melly, thus becoming one of the first celebrities to do so. Several days later, he came out to a group of friends at a party held at his home in Belsize Park where he officially introduced them to his partner, David Sherlock, whom he had met in Ibiza in 1966, and subsequently raised their adopted son, John Tomiczek, together.

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