Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman
Graham Arthur Chapmanwas an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail and Life of Brian...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth8 January 1941
newts
She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better...
holy-grail ugly tails
When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
silly camelot
Camelot is a silly place.
perfectly-normal medical phenomenon
Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.
philosophy black-and-white color
My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.
color names quests
WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?
sorry worry once-upon-a-time
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...
special warfare lasts
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.
clothes dryer paint
Yes, clothes dryers are monsters, and more of them should be painted... we did paint the clothes dryer on the set.
almost bbc essential extra fee good looked obviously pay realized stage wrote
We'd obviously realized at this stage that if we wrote something in a show that got repeated, then we would get another fee for it without having to do any extra work. Now that looked like a good idea, and as the BBC didn't pay us very much in the first place- the ingrates-it was almost essential to have the thing repeated.