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Monty Python Members Reunite For Chapman Film

Posted by samzenpus on from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

gregg writes "Monty Python members have reunited to voice a 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman. A Liar's Autobiography will feature recordings that Chapman made of his book before his death in 1989. From the article: '[Terry] Jones joked he had "no idea" until recently that Chapman was dead and "thought he was just being lazy". "However, I am now delighted to find myself working with him again on this exciting project," he added.'"

55 comments

  1. Like Mrs. Premise's cat by dtmos · · Score: 2

    Not quite dead yet ...

    1. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!

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    2. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or Mary, Queen of Scots. Which is now playing on Radio 4, just behind Radio 2.

    3. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by blair1q · · Score: 1

      he's just playing in the hide and seek olympic final

      and winning

    4. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1

      "If I had not burred him 6 feet underground, he would still be telling jokes to this day! Look, how about an exchange? I'll take back the dead Graham Chapman, and give you a living breathing Steve Martin. He fucked up the Pink Panther and shat all over Peter Sellers but I'm sure he wont do that again. Well, not so soon at least.

    5. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by dkleinsc · · Score: 2

      I don't want to go on the cart. I feel happy! I feel happy!

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    6. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by peragrin · · Score: 0

      what's more impressive is that is above Waldo who is in second and Carmen who is in third.

      Of course Dick chenney is in Fourth but we don't talk about him anymore.

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    7. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's dead... STONE FUCKING DEAD! Move along... nothing to see here...

    8. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, I'd better replace it, then.
      .
      .
      Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh... we're right out of Pythons.
      But I've got a couple of Germans.
      Listen, tell you what. I'll stick them in women's clothing, teach zem zee properr prronunciation of zee inglisch, and give them a barrel of booze... There you are, a lovely peasant theatre.

    9. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      Peter Sellers hated the pink panther movies.

      If Steve Martin was cast as the new Chancy Gardner then he would be shitting all over Sellers.

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    10. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Ihmhi · · Score: 1

      For those interested, check out a brief clip from Graham Chapman's funeral. John Cleese delivers the eulogy, and there's a song at the end (bonus points if you guess what it is without looking).

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    11. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by ackthpt · · Score: 1

      No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!

      Nonsense, it's just a flesh wound.

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    12. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Baron_Yam · · Score: 1

      Peter Sellers had more than a couple of mental issues. I think his opinion of the Pink Panther movies is irrelevant - they were brilliant within their genre, and that fact is only accentuated by how poor the non-Sellers sequel was back in the day, and how abysmally awful the Steve Martin remake turned out to be.

    13. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by treeves · · Score: 1

      My guess is: The Lumberjack Song.
      [goes off and watches video]http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/1845223/Monty-Python-Members-Reunite-For-Chapman-Film#
      Oh, bugger.
      Well, Always Look On The Bright Side of Life was actually my first guess, but then I thought The Lumberjack Song would be more fun.

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    14. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      The GGPs comment to which I was responding: 'He fucked up the Pink Panther and shat all over Peter Sellers'

      Peter Sellers thought the pink panther movies were shit. It's not a question of if the movies were shit or not but if you can shit all over someone by messing with work they 'phoned in'.

      Would you feel shit on if someone did an even worse job on some project you phoned in, but hated.

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    15. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Radical+Moderate · · Score: 1

      Bright Side of Life?

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    16. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't know, it could be close. It might even be a draw like last time.

    17. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 1

      I feel happy! I want to go for a walk!

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    18. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 1

      If he phoned it in, then on his worst day, his most half-assed effort was still 300% better than the remakes and sequels without him.

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    19. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by moenoel · · Score: 1

      That's because he knows how not to be seen.

    20. Re:Like Mrs. Premise's cat by Ihmhi · · Score: 1

      Ding ding ding ding ding, you win!

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  2. Eric Idle by Verdatum · · Score: 2

    Eric Idle is not involved?? He exploits his Python past more than any of them!

    1. Re:Eric Idle by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 1

      He exploits his Python past more than any of them!

      How precisely?

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    2. Re:Eric Idle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's the guy that put together the "Spamalot" musical stage show.

    3. Re:Eric Idle by Verdatum · · Score: 3, Informative

      He made a show, called "Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python". Need I say more?

    4. Re:Eric Idle by cayenne8 · · Score: 1
      Yeah..article said he wasn't involved..wonder why?

      Has he had some kind of spat or parting with the others?

      Does he not walk sufficiently silly these days?

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    5. Re:Eric Idle by wjousts · · Score: 1

      And he had the "greedy bastard" tour.

    6. Re:Eric Idle by osu-neko · · Score: 1

      Don't forget "The Greedy Bastard Tour", and, of course, Spamalot.

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    7. Re:Eric Idle by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 3, Funny

      Say no more, say no more.

    8. Re:Eric Idle by demonbug · · Score: 1

      Yeah..article said he wasn't involved..wonder why?

      Has he had some kind of spat or parting with the others?

        Does he not walk sufficiently silly these days?

      I was wondering about that too. Based on comments from some of the other Pythons (especially Jones, and to a lesser extent Gilliam) regarding Spamalot it sounds like they are not very impressed with what he did with the Python material. I also got the feeling from the documentary on Monty Python that came out a couple of years ago that he had pretty firmly gone his own way (though they all have to a great extent); he sounded a little pissed off and even on the edge of being unhinged during some of the interviews. I generally liked his work in the past, but his manner in those interviews really left a bad taste in my mouth. Makes me think that there must have been something of a split, though I haven't seen any kind of confirmation of it (well, aside from the fact that he isn't appearing in this film).

    9. Re:Eric Idle by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 1

      Eric: You see that house? That is where I was born. My mother said to me, "Eric, the world is a beautiful place, and you must spread joy and contentment everywhere you go". And so I became a comedian... Well, I know it is not a great philosophy but...

    10. Re:Eric Idle by Verdatum · · Score: 1

      (well, aside from the fact that he isn't appearing in this film).

      The aptly titled, Sir Not Appearing in this Film???

    11. Re:Eric Idle by malsbert · · Score: 1

      They say news travels slow here on /. in this case they may be right! At least this news is part of the MP entry on Wikipedia :)

      In said entry, The editor(s) claims; The filmmakers are "working on" him.

      It would be nice if this thing featured the "full Monty".

       

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    12. Re:Eric Idle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He exploits his Python past more than any of them!

      How precisely?

      Very, very precisely.

    13. Re:Eric Idle by Hatta · · Score: 1

      There's a dick in every group.

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    14. Re:Eric Idle by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      and a pussy and an asshole.

      Sorry, wrong movie.

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    15. Re:Eric Idle by BobNET · · Score: 2

      Yes, this story should be tagged "!idle" despite being in the idle section.

  3. No Eric? by MechanicJay · · Score: 1

    I wonder why Eric Idle decided not to join in?

    1. Re:No Eric? by osu-neko · · Score: 2

      Hmm. He doesn't seem to have been up to much since 2007, and I know they're all getting up there in years. Mind you, this is pure speculation, but I have to wonder if he's well these days. Maybe he just doesn't feel up to it anymore. It does not, otherwise, seem in character for him to pass up an opportunity to further "exploit Monty Python" (his own words).

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    2. Re:No Eric? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's a lot of words to say he's Idle.

    3. Re:No Eric? by wwphx · · Score: 1

      2008 he was doing Not The Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy. I picked up the DVD and was sadly disappointed. It was amusing, quite amusing in parts, but overall I'd rather watch the movie. IMDB lists it as a 2010 release, so he might have been quite busy with the DVD production. He was always a bit of an outsider even during MPFS production, he was a year behind Cleese and Chapman at Cambridge and didn't really write with them when they were developing sketches for The Circus.

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  4. He's pining for the fjords by elrous0 · · Score: 1

    Here's your money back and a couple of holiday vouchers.

    Graham Chapman
    Completed.

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    1. Re:He's pining for the fjords by boristdog · · Score: 1

      I'm afraid I don't understand your banter.

      Could you say it slower?

    2. Re:He's pining for the fjords by wwphx · · Score: 1

      What, slow banter?!

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  5. One of Only two... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...books that have made me physically fall off my chair with laughing. (when they go on the trip to Champagne country.)

    Interestingly they already made a film of the other book, never been brave enough to watch it...

  6. Milking this one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    just a bit, eh?

  7. Stop that, stop that... by dorianh49 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... much too silly. Right! Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do, expect perhaps my wife... and some of her friends. Oh, yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point. Now! Let's have clean, healthy commenting.

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    1. Re:Stop that, stop that... by CaptainPatent · · Score: 2

      In other words:

      "And now, for something completely different"

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    2. Re:Stop that, stop that... by Joce640k · · Score: 1

      John Cleese did it best/a>

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    3. Re:Stop that, stop that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Confess! Confess!

    4. Re:Stop that, stop that... by EdIII · · Score: 2

      You mention something completely different.

      I was introduced to Monty Python by a friend and did not initially understand how passionate he was about them. I came to understand it fairly quickly. It was different, quite different in fact, than American humor at the time. At least to me.

      I loved the parts of the shows that I did get to watch, and then of course... the Movie. "It's just a flesh wound", "Holy Hand Grenade", and the difference between an African and European Swallow.

      That being said, I think that Chapman was one of the best parts of Yellow Beard and how I remember him the most. Yellow Beard was pretty unusual considering it's cast for such a goofball movie. Madeline Kahn was already well established as an actress with Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder for such silliness, as well as Cleese and Idle, but it also had Peter Boyle (Everybody loves Raymond, Crazy Joe and Young Frankestein), and of course Marty Feldman came along for the ride.

      Stranger still it had James Mason and Peter Cook.

      Last, but certainly not least..... it had Cheech and Chong in it.

      You could not come up with a better movie with an all star cast in it if you tried and with a wonderful topping of Cheech and Chong added to it.

      THAT is my best memory of Chapman. I watch that movie at least once a year and still laugh my ass off.

    5. Re:Stop that, stop that... by Paul1969 · · Score: 1

      "Yellowbeard" is definitely a neglected masterpiece!

      "Is that strictly true, sir?"
      "That, my boy, is what we in the Royal Navy call... a Lie."

  8. Snakes Galore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How precisely?

    Very, very precisely.

    Is that a bit of Black Adder in your Python?

  9. Olga by dimethylxanthine · · Score: 0

    Not Olga Chapman? Aww...

  10. Joy by emblemparade · · Score: 1

    There are going to be many sarcastic, witty and plain silly responses to this post. As there should be! I am sure to laugh at many of them. (The Slashdot community can be unimaginative and get-off-my-lawn obtuse at times, but it's always witty and enjoyable.)

    But I'd like to be the one that says that this upcoming get-together of the Pythons, in honor of one of them, warms my heart to no end. They were and will be the ideal geeks: smart, non-conformist, funny, and thus happy.

    Chapman holds a dear place for being so very gay, so very out, and having such an insightful perspective on British (and global) culture. I salute him with all my hands, and look forward to this salute from his fellow Pythons!