Biography: Graham Chapman |

While attending Cambridge University, Leicester-born Graham Chapman met and befriended fellow student John Cleese. Sharing a keen sense of the ridiculous, Chapman and Cleese formed a writing/performing team, contributing scripts to a variety of BBC... more
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Cast: Terry Gilliam John Cleese   
Tags: Farce Parody/Spoof Satire Gross-Out Comedy Comedy Absurd Comedy 
Length: 107min
The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a...

Cast: James Mason Tommy Chong Peter Boyle Susannah York Gerry Fisher Madeline Kahn Mel Damski  
Tags: Comedy Farce Parody/Spoof Adventure Comedy 
Length: 97min
This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely...

Tags: Absurd Comedy Religious Comedy Comedy Parody/Spoof 
Length: 93min
On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds...

Cast: Peter Medak   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 100min
In this dark British comedy, a despondent businessman (Graham Chapman) decides to end it all after his wife leaves him. Unfortunately, he lacks the courage to do it to himself and so hires a professional assassin, telling him to do the deed no matter...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Tags: Comedy Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy 
Length: 89min
From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail helped to define "irreverence" and became an instant cult classic. This...

And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
Cast: Terry Jones Monty Python   
Tags: Satire Farce Sketch Comedy Absurd Comedy Comedy 
Length: 88min
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture until after the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series began making the PBS rounds. Graham Chapman,...




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