Graham Chapman
Also Known As: Graham Arthur Chapman
Biography: Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, physician, writer, and actor 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 Brian in Monty Python's Life of Brian. He co-authored and starred in the film Yellowbeard. Chapman was born in Leicester but was raised in nearby Melton Mowbray. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Medical College, he turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Birthday: January 08, 1941
Deathday: October 04, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 10722
IMDb-Id: nm0001037
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Known For
Life of Brian
Overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Overview: King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-14
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Overview: Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
Overview: An documentarian from the BBC visits the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). This documentary shouldn't be viewed as a making of the film, but rather a goof-off session that is simply there to conjure up laughter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-19
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Yellowbeard
Overview: For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Overview: Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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And Now for Something Completely Different
Overview: A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Life Of Brian Screenplay
Overview: An original illustrated 110 minute recording by The Pythons of their early screenplay in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-29
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best
Overview: The LORDS of LAUGHTER--The SAINTS of SATIRE--The HIGH PRIESTS of LOW COMEDY--have sold out once again. Some say you can't take it with you. Others just refuse to go. Graham Chapman--doctor, tall actor, self-wrestler and really famous dead guy--is the latter. Chapman has a least 8 movie and TV appearances to his credit since he passed away in 1989 making him the most prolific corpse since Elvis. This DVD GRAHAM CHAPMAN'S PERSONAL BEST makes 9. In a comprehensive tribute written by the remaining members of the incomparable Monty Python's Flying Circus this program includes the sketches they believe Chapman would have called his very favorites. Of course they could be wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-22
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Overview: The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Looks Like a Brown Trouser Job
Overview: In the early 1980s, Graham Chapman embarked upon a second career as a public speaker. Throughout the decade he toured hundreds of North American colleges delivering "comedy lectures" which consisted of tales from his life, adventures with an ad hoc group of adrenaline junkies called the Dangerous Sports Club, equally dangerous friends like the Who's Keith Moon and, of course, his fellow Pythons. In the spring of 1988 he launched his final college tour before his death in 1989, the best of which is presented here, videotaped under Graham's supervision and taken from his personal archives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
Overview: A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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How to Irritate People
Overview: A pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-21
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The Secret Life of Brian
Overview: A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Overview: The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas...
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-29
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
Overview: Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and wrote the first episode of a new series called Owl Stretching Time. They were called Graham Chapman , John Cleese, Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin and later both they and the series became known as Monty Python 's Flying Circus . Today they are the best known British comedy group in the world, famous from Cathay to Kathmandu, from Sydney to Sidcup (except in Japan where the programme is called The Gay Boys' Dragon Show ... say no more). To commemorate their tenth anniversary a BBC team tracked them down in the deserts of Tunisia where they were filming their Life of Brian and almost persuaded them to examine the genesis, the genius and the gender of Monty Python.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-20
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Life of Python
Overview: This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Sets etc.) and various interviews with the group's members and other associated artists.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Overview: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-08
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The Odd Job
Overview: Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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Anatomy of a Liar
Overview: A documentary about A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Out of the Trees
Overview: Sketch comedy pilot from Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Overview: Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well known sketches, though the parrot sketch is not included. Steve Martin has some funny comments on the Pythons.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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Still Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Overview: A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Euroshow '71: May Day Special
Overview: German made-for-TV musical extravaganza starring Monty Python.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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Monty Python: Who's There?
Overview: An instructional film about canvassing, for the Labour Party and starring the Python team, showing Labour Party workers how to canvass for votes. Filmed April 1970. Narrated by Michael Parkinson.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'
Overview: The behind-the-scenes production documentary of Monty Python's 'Meaning Of Life.' This documentary is featured on the 2-disc Special Edition DVD for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, released in September 2003.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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Jake's Journey
Overview: A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Magic Christian
Overview: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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The Movie Life of George
Overview: When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story of him and Handmade Films.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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The Roots of Monty Python
Overview: A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-26
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Monty Python In The Netherlands
Overview: Monty Python sketch created for Dutch television in 1973.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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What the Pythons Did Next...
Overview: A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Doctor in Trouble
Overview: Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-16
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Iron Maiden: Visions of the Beast
Overview: Visions of the Beast was released by Iron Maiden on June 2, 2003 and contains every promotional video through 2001's Rock in Rio. It is basically an updated version of The First Ten Years: The Videos and From There to Eternity. It also includes never-before-seen Camp Chaos animated versions of six definitive Iron Maiden songs, interactive menus and discographies, and some special hidden extras.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-02
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Overview: Compilation of the best Sketches of the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which ran from 5 October 1969 to 11 January 1970. Memorable moments include: 'The 127th Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition from Hurlingham Park'; 'Bicycle Repair Man'; 'Vicious Gangs of Old Ladies - the Layabouts in Lace'; 'The Man with Three Buttocks'; 'The Lumberjack Song'; 'Vocational Guidance Councillor'; and 'The Joke That Kills People'. Oh, and a sketch about a dead parrot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Overview: All the best sketches from the second series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'It's in the Mind'; 'The New Cooker Sketch'; 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'; and 'The Ministry for Silly Walks'. Originally Broadcast from 15 September to 22 December 1970
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Overview: All the best sketches from the third and fourth series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'The Finals of the All-England Summarise Proust Competition'; 'Stand and Deliver! It's That Highwayman Dennis Moore'; 'Thrust: A Quite Controversial Look at the World Around Us'; 'Whicker's Island'; and 'The Fifteenth Ideal Loon Competition'. Originally broadcast from 19 October 1972 to 18 January 1973, and 31 October to 5 December 1974.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Monty Python Story
Overview: The story behind how the comedy sketch group Monty Python formed in 1969, and lead to four very series, and four very funny films that are still has funny today as when they were released.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Overview: Meatloaf introduces a look back at Python's use of music. Included interviews with the team, André Jacquemin and other conspirators.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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The Statue
Overview: Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Overview: Discover how six seemingly ordinary but supremely talented men became Monty Python, sketch comedy's inspired group of lunatics who turned such unlikely sources of inspiration as Spam, dead parrots and the Inquisition into enduring punch lines. This entertaining documentary includes interviews with members of the troupe, as well as home movies, photos and rare recordings from Monty Python's early years.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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Monty Python Conquers America
Overview: This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics, focusing especially on their conquest of the American comedy scene,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Group Madness
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-11
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The Life of Python
Overview: Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Monty Python presents exclusive new material and so-called classic bits. Disc : 1 Contains 1:It's The Monty Python Story 2:Pythonland 3:The Last Python Mayday Special 4:From Spam to Sperm:Monty Pythons Greatest Hits An Animated South Park Tribute Disc:2 1 The Last German Episode Fliegender Zirkus #2: Schnapps with Everything
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Overview: From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC archives, following the group’s encounters with ‘Auntie’ over the past 50 years.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Overview: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971
Overview: One of the least-known Monty Python rarities is “The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch of 1971,” a short advertising film that was made for the Birds Eye company’s internal use.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Overview: In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin – shared a stage together for the first time in 18 years. Even more remarkably, Graham Chapman was there too....in an urn! The occasion for this reunion was the US Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python, hosted by Robert Klein in front of a live audience.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Overview: Monty Python’s influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles’ influence on music, a pivotal moment in the evolution of television humor. Celebrating the cultural legacy and influence of the troupe, this special pairs their original material with new and entertaining commentary from celebrities who consider Monty Python hugely significant, both personally and to the history of screen satire. Celebrity humorists discuss, laugh, and reminisce about various Python segments and bring a fresh perspective to the material, connecting Monty Python’s work to today’s most successful television humor. In a time when a few moments of escape and laughter couldn’t be more sought after, this special reminds viewers of Python’s cultural impact, and that PBS introduced them to American viewers.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-05
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