A Liar's Autobiography Volume VI
by Graham Chapman
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Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing an unblushing account of a gay lifestyle linked to entertainment. Full of outrageous fictions and touching truths, in telling surreal and outrageous lies Graham Chapman often uncovers a show more truth about himself and colleagues. The stories Chapman relates--whether as mountaineer or medical student (he was a doctor); actor or alcoholic (he was both); heterosexual groupie-guzzler or homosexual coming to terms with himself (bit of both)--form a surreal and crowded mosaic that is funny, disturbing, and moving by turns. A minor cult classic by a major comic talent. show lessTags
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I was drawn to this as a Python fan, and because I heard it was so funny. while there is much humor here, I find it more moving than hilarious. I feel confronted with his own alcoholism and promiscuity, Chapman used the jokes as a shield and the effect is more sadness than mirth.
Lots of interesting tales from the great Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame. Chapman is very open with his private life and his sexuality and has some hilarious bon mots about Monty Python and his life. He mentions the famous medical student who was receiving a generous stipend from a relative to study so works it so he fails enough classes to stay at university and on the stipend almost indefinitely.
One can only imagine the laughs we have missed out on by his untimely death so long ago now.
One can only imagine the laughs we have missed out on by his untimely death so long ago now.
I have absolutely no idea if any of this book is true (it is called a "Liar's Autobiography after all). I find that I didn't care in the least while reading it and enjoyed it immensely.
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- Original publication date
- 1980
- People/Characters
- Graham Chapman; Michael Palin; Eric Idle; John Cleese; Terry Jones
- Epigraph
- "Heads which are empty and weak are always liable to get little black things inside which rattle about."
E. W. Shepherd-Walwyn
Look Straight Ahead: Twenty Talks with Boys and Boy Scouts - First words
- It is a curiosity of post-Boer War European literature (and I firmly include Great Britain in the term "European") that prefaces beginning "It is a curiosity" hardly ever have anything to say.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)GRAHAM (and still more faintly): THE END.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 791.45028092
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 791.45028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Television Acting Biography
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- PN2598 .C27 .A35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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- English, French, German, Hungarian
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