Haha! "He's coming in a minute", how could that obvious joke escape me for years!

😄 I didn’t catch that first time.

He said it so dryly I didn't ever catch that I have to admit. Even though the sexual context of the situation was quite obvious I'm so biased against a proper sounding English gentleman saying something like that my brain refused to catch it.

You Brits! That old comedy "No Sex Please, We're British" still applies. An American, i got the pun instantly. Didn't you get Palin saying that the Asian in the window was Graham's pick up from the night before?

For the Pythons to deliver great staid, conservative, prudish and safe (relatively speaking) humor, they would have had to know first the naughty bits of, say, a taboo subject of tv/film in their day: sex / transgressive sex. (Taking on female roles indeed was for comic effect, and was not making fun of men dressing up as women). And one can tell they knew very well of the limitless comedic possibilities that the many dimensions the topic takes on. Their boarding school & academic backgrounds no doubt more than adequately provided a rich fund for the Brits in MP to draw on. Still, they avoided dealing with any form of sexual desire (yes, but only on a few rare occasions), pornography, or even with self-abuse even. They skirted and touched upon the topic every now and then but they never really engaged with it full-on with any innuendo-filled off-color sketches or scenes, but as you can see with Palin’s casually-delivered line here , they were masters at it. They were open-minded and accepting enough of GC’s sexual preferences, but can still make light of it in a classy way that respects GC and the audience. Palin’s line here generates a healthy round of chuckles each time I revisit it. Funny thing is, the more i visit it, the naughtier it becomes. Visuals pop up. And I feel dirtier and dirtier each time responding to Palin’s line (and manner of delivery). Uncanny.

Nice one...wish I'D thought of it

He’s not the messiah

NOW GO AWAY

how shall we fuck off, o Lord?

There's no pleasing some people.

You're saying the ability to be funny was not relevant?

Lemon curry?!

@@OnePost909 Over fortitude? Please

The greatest comedy troupe in history.

VERY WELL SAID MY UKposts FRIEND.

Yeah. More like Graham coulda- if we'd bothered to be there.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ta for that, mate.

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John Cleese is brutally honest about many subjects. Whether Graham would have wanted it that way doesn't enter into it.

@@JarrodFrates you really aren't in a position to say something so definite, no need to de value this persons nice comment

yes, but as they said earlier - none of them really knew each other that much outside of work. And Cleese undoubtedly spent the most time with him, and is therefore, most qualified to offer those honest opinions. They were writing partners even before Python and that's a pretty intimate kind of relationship.

@@JarrodFrates They were very good friends. Of course it "enters into it".

idk impossible to ever say but yeah, I admired Cleese`s brutal honesty also, his eulogy at Grahams funeral says it all

Haha good one. I'm sure he'd laugh at that.

... when he stopped being drunk and started being dead.

exactly the kind of joke he would enjoy. RIP

If you were talking about anybody else (even other comedians), this wouldn't be funny. But with Chapman, it works.

Can anyone tell me which documentary this is?

Me too and it slightly pisses me off the slight attitude they have with him. He was probably the genius one and they owe him.

Yes he was my favourite also. Crunchy Frog!

mightisright absolutely. All the pythons said as much. He was easily the best actor and the funniest deadpan of the group. He was also the messiest and had the most problems unfortunately.

@@pigknickers2975 he wasnt really. He rarely initiated any writing, he was more of the kind of person who would add great stuff on to others' ideas. And he was a raging alcoholic up until after Holy Grail.

@@dildoniusmaybe you're right...... he just seems highly entertaining to me

I was abit stunned when I heard it.

I feel he had a justified reaction to someone laughing at him talking about his problems. Anyone who does should be dealt with accordingly, cause these issues ain't fun.

I think maybe because it was a slightly obvious answer? Could be reading it wrong though

In other words, he had a great deal of patients.

booooo lol

@GohModley I'm right here.

St. Pooves?

By doing shitty cartoons. Pfft. He was the tea boy. An afterthought.

@@kelman727 And you sir, are a talentless, jealous, hack!

@@r.lewisblake7793 yes

​@@kelman727 You shouldn't believe everything the other Pythons say lol

other pythons complaining about Gilliam crack me the hell up. I remember Cleese saying about Gilliam, "I don't think I've ever once agreed with anything that man has said."

He did get himself sober between Holy Grail and Life of Brian and in latter he was sober and his superior acting ability of all Pythons shines through.

@MidnightSundowns..,.. 💀..had I been there, there sure as Hell wouldn't have been "half the bottle" left..!!

indeed

john lennon was a hypocritical pile of horseshit, please don't compare a Monty Python to this trash bag

reminds me of Robin Williams, in a way.

it does seem to be that way im afraid. I'm an alcoholic and have no self-esteem. even though i have qualified as a carpenter, travelled the world, re-skilled as a university graduate in Computer Science work with a multi-national company and now looking to upskill again.............

Plot Twist: Terry Gilliam is actually American Oh wait.

Somebody boil a bunch of water!

How tall was he?

John's eulogy at Graham Chapman 's memorial service was so funny. If you haven't seen it it's on UKposts.

To answer Tony, Chapman was 6'4" and Cleese 6'5".

188cm is 6'2", for you intellectually inferior whatever. (I'm not American, nor from a country using the superior Imperial system) And there's no way there was a four inch difference between the two.

Wrong. The imperial system is shite.

I really liked him as police officers and military figures, you wonder if he based it off his dad who was a constable

tellymad649 I like their tiny, little trees.

+BronyDan Donald Trump is quite popular in those sides I see.

+Steven Kavanagh ....Their zen, their ping-pong, their ying and yang'es.

***** like I'm gonna remember a context of my comments from a year.

Today, saying he's Chinese would get Michael accused of "cultural appropriation." Having said that, can you imagine the fun that the pythons would have today with ridiculous ideas like cultural appropriation?

rebecca sabet agreed

Can anyone tell me which documentary this is?

@Karim Rached Doesn't matter what you believe. It's just the harsh reality of success. Deal with it.

@@elnoruego6854Monty Python: (Almost) The Truth

@Karim Rached Agreed. The world is full of geniuses in whatever craft they excel: physical or mental, fighting a war as a soldier, fighting a courtroom as a lawyer, a mathematician proving theorems, a farmer growing food, but these geniuses do NOT get fame. The ones who DO get fame TEND to get the mental problems BECAUSE of the fame: the loss of privacy. Not because of the genius. I hate idiots pushing the MYTH that you need "mental issues" or "issues" to "push you to be a genius".

A *brilliant* comment! Yes! Wish I had written that!

It's not the genius that's screwed up - it's everyone else.

I think that went over your head

He was just going through some things. Like he said, he stopped being dishonest with himself. And I don’t know if he ever considered himself a genius. Every python brought something to the table. The whole group was just fun dynamite.

@@Picnicl Well said

It's possible to be perfectly mediocre, intellectually, and still be totally screwed up. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that in my opinion it's entirely possible to be a total moron *AND* be completely screwed up! And now, with an opposing view, Graham Chapman. ... Well, so much for the opposing view. Next up - winning arguments with dead people - hard or easy?

He was chosen as the main actor for HG and LoB, because the other pythons considered him to be the best actor of the 6 of them

He had spent most of his life "acting" so it makes sense

@@D.A.D.D.Y. I noticed that. I think sadly he was always deflecting from who he really was, and without any disrespect to the other Pythons, I believe he felt he had to always be in "clown mode" to get through the day - hence the drinking

+Red Floyd.

It always makes me feel terrible when I realize that the concept of being gay or lesbian makes me uncomfortable. I do not hate anybody because they're that way. In fact, my cousin, whom I love dearly, just came out, and I have other gay/lesbian friends. I feel terrible for how he must've been treated.

Thank you. Your comment laid my mind at rest.

after the bunny and swallows.

He was the lead by default. All members have mentioned that none of them wanted the lead as they wanted to do writing and have all the fun side characters. Graham would volunteer because no one else wanted it.

What Barnaby said. A lead is almost always a straight character (pun intended), because every narrative needs a stable center of gravity. Leads might be big roles with a lot of stage time, but character parts tend to be much more memorable, not to mention fun to play.

Agreed - the true zaniness of the Pythons was in Graham madness if you ask me. Her simply didn't give a fuck and sometimes you need that. Like Keith Moon or John Lennon really. A kind of mad death wish - that's where real genius lies.

My impression has always been that Graham was by far the most out-there of all the Pythons in real life. He had to play straight characters, which played by him were of course chock-full of wonderful weirdness. If he'd played the lunatics, then the Earth probably would have gone into an erratic orbit or something similarly tremendous.

He played a fair number of women.

Can anyone tell me which documentary this is?

You had a few pints of pint of gin sweetheart?

Marek Gerard you must have with that fucking sentence

Yes, like Van Gogh.

@@elnoruego6854 It's called "Monty Python The Truth" it's on Netflix currently, along with almost all of MP's greatest hits

+Pork Woofles He actually quite enjoyed being gay especially getting laid.

Not convinced about that. I think he drank to try and kill his shyness. It's common for alcoholics to come through that route. Keith Moon was the same.

Not sure where you get the idea that self harm is more prevalent in gays and trans? Suicide is definitely more common in trans people but for a different reason. Also he did say in the video it wasn't till he was about 25 when he realised his focus on marrying his steady girlfriend wasn't what he wanted out of life. So he definitely struggled with it before he accepted it.

Let me think... I am an alcoholic and in AA I realised that most of us are just running from ourselves. We self medicate ourselves of whatever reason.

True, although who knows what was eating him from inside, maybe it wasn't even his homosexuality. And often we don't even understand what it is that is eating us from inside (for example, I recently learned, that an ischemic brain damage, aka stroke, can be one of the possible causes, say if it affects, well basically anything, but say learning abilities, or say the part responsible for controlling management of basic motivation, etc. and so forth). BTW, strokes in kids are also a thing, from different things, but also (or maybe especially, nowadays, because it's so common) from vaccines (if we paid attention to evaluate children before and after a vaccination, we would realise this long ago, but we don't, most damages go unnoticed, ah, it's a long story...)

Such a fun character indeed!

He died of AIDS?

@@davidtx8777 No, it was lung cancer I think

​@@jam-the-hologramtonsil cancer

🙏 Amen.

Well said. Terry Jones is not only a fantastic performer and writer but a superb historian and its a crime what has happened to him.

I read a few weeks back that Michael Palin was reading to him an old comedy annual they had written together and Terry was laughing only at the jokes he himself had written. It's heartbreaking but I smiled at the thought that Terry is still here and annoying Michael Palin EVEN with dementia

jesus. that's so fucking sad. people growing old and getting horrible diseases makes me not believe in god. it's all that suffering for no reason.

Welp, as Cleese said, four to go.

Need I also mention that London gin is among the strongest alcoholic drinks in the world?

StonyRC....I've known a couple of hardcore professional drinkers. When you found how much they really drink it's pretty eye opening! One guy drank from the moment he got up...till he went to bed....All day, all night.... everyday.... but he never seemed drunk. Of course, the booze finally got him. RIP....

StonyRC it sounds like a lot but alcoholics can astonish with their alcohol intake. Especially when it’s bad bad.

@@greatbyrondo ... he died last year at the age of 102...

Slacker!

I've 'thumbs upped' your comment but, actually, he didn't have any coconuts - he was the bloody King!

No he was just burned with coconuts.

As all mighty steed.

You are showing a distinct tendency to become silly...

Would you like to be buried with a joke?

I don't know which show or documentary this clip is from but it seems to me that it's just that: a clip. I for one love the fact that we can actually learn how a person truly was during his life, warts and all. If we want more positivity there are tons of other videos (including the absolutely beautiful eulogies at his funeral) and of course there's the show and the movies. I'd actually like to know the name of this show or documentary to watch it in full and get to know a great man a little better. And I keep thinking it would be great if they asked each member to talk like this about all the other Pythons so that we can watch them later when they, you know, unfortunately but inevitably move on as well.

+Zach Brookes I've met people who knew Graham, and apparently he was a flaming rainbow-friendly boozer. You make it sound like it's a bad thing.

+Joseph Scott Not at all - my point was (and maybe I should've been clearer) that in the other montages when they're discussing the other members, they're not as brutally honest. Sure, his sexuality and drinking were part of who he was, but when a comedian's private life is brought to the forefront over their comedy, it gives the illusion that all they worked for is tossed aside, even in a personal documentary like this one. Maybe it's because Graham's not here anymore and therefore, the brutal honesty comes all-guns-blazing.

Well maybe they did and it was edited out

Because Google Chrome is gay.

@@lemonslice2233 Best answer.