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  Graham Chapman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian and writer.
Chapman was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, where he began writing comedy with fellow University student John Cleese.
After Chapman made his homosexuality public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was a homosexual.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Chapman   (1349 words)

  
 Graham Chapman biography
Graham Chapman was born on January 1941 in Leicester, in the middle of an air raid.
Chapman’s father was a policeman and as a result, Graham (and older brother John) moved around the country to where their father’s postings took them.
Chapman and Branch invited the Footlights committee, and impressed them enough to be elected to audition, and from there to be admitted as members.
www.geocities.com /fang_club/Chapman_biog.html   (1112 words)

  
 Graham Chapman Page
Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leicester, Midlands, England to parents Walter and Edith.
Graham Chapman intended to follow in the footsteps of his older brother and become a doctor.
Graham Chapman died of spinal cancer on October 4, 1989, the eve of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Monty Python.
www.lambda.net /~maximum/chapman.html   (904 words)

  
 Spam (Monty Python) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terry Jones, Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman in the Monty Python skit "Spam".
The Python programming language prefers to use spam and eggs as metasyntactic variables, instead of the traditional foo and bar.
Graham Chapman • John Cleese • Terry Gilliam • Eric Idle • Terry Jones • Michael Palin
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)   (791 words)

  
 Graham Chapman
Chapman developed his comedy genius and a love for gin and tonic while studying medicine at Cambridge University.
In 1969 Doctor Chapman and the rest of the Python’s hit TV screens for the first time and a whole menagerie of surreal characters were launched onto an unsuspecting world.
Chapman was the king of surreal comedy and apparently attended a speaking engagement in a giant carrot costume.
www.beertarot.com /drunksark/gchapman.htm   (164 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
By 1963 Chapman was a practicing medicine at St. Bart’s Hospital and silmutaneously a member of The Cambridge Circus where he became aquantinted with other actors and writers who would later form Monty Python.
Chapman, an avid pipe smoker, was diagnosed in June 1988 with throat cancer, and spent most of the following year in and out of hospitals battling the disease.
Graham Chapman is survived by companion David Sherlock and an adopted son.
obits.com /chapmangraham.html   (519 words)

  
 Graham Chapman
Graham's father was a policeman, and the young Graham had to move around the country quite a bit whenever his father had a new posting.
Jones, speaking of Graham, said it was "the worst case of party pooping I had ever seen." At Graham's funeral, a huge number of friends and associates arrived to pay tribute to the eccentric genius of their friend Graham.
Graham had died with brilliant timing on October 4th, 1989, the very eve of the twentieth anniversary of the first recording of Monty Python's Flying Circus, causing a huge celebratory party to be cancelled in what Terry Jones called the greatest act of party pooping in history.
orangecow.org /pythonet/graham-chapman.html   (3233 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Graham Chapman - Comedy Writer and Actor - A687954
Graham's second (and final) experience with the Dangerous Sports Club was being catapulted into the air in Hyde Park, London, by the same sort of elastic that is used to launch fighter planes from aircraft carriers...
In 1988, Graham was diagnosed with cancer of the tonsils.
Graham Chapman has been referred to as the only genuine anarchist within Python, and the most subversive element in a group of subversive elements.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A687954   (1889 words)

  
 Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chapman's starring role in "The Life of Brian" is the triumph of his career in comedy.
Tragically, Chapman was diagnosed with cancer of the tonsils in 1988.
Chapman passed away on 4 October 1989, just a day short of the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
members.aol.com /siamesepython/graham.html   (278 words)

  
 Spotlight: Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leceister, England.
Chapman remembers how he was able to join: "There were only 25 undergraduates in Footlights every year [including a very young Sir David Frost] and to join you had to do a funny piece...were you good enough you did a 'smoking concert' which was really a group of people entertaining their fellow members.
Chapman appeared in it; the sketch parodied the use of reference books; during which Palin and Jones subsituted words as in a theasurus entry; during which the audience joined in as a large sheet with the words of the sketch were written on it.
bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Bio/spot-gc.html   (3538 words)

  
 Pythonland - Graham Chapman.
Graham Chapman (born 8 January 1941 in Leicester, died 4 October 1989) was a British comedian and writer.
There is a self-appointed Graham Chapman archive, but in all the years since Graham's death, only a few things have actually been released.
Chapman was an alcoholic in the 1970s, and he also kept his homosexuality a secret until the middle of that decade (although his fellow Pythons were already aware of his sexual orientation) when he famously came out on a British chat show, one of the first celebrities to do so.
www.pythonland.com /biochapman.php   (1014 words)

  
 Graham Chapman @ Filmbug
Graham Arthur Chapman was a British comedian and writer.
Chapman attended Cambridge University to study medicine, where he began writing comedy with classmate John Cleese.
Chapman joined the Dangerous Sports Club, which introduced bungee-jumping to a wide audience, and he went on lengthy college lecture tours in the 1980s.
www.filmbug.com /db/30215   (420 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman: Books: Eric Idle,Graham Chapman,Jim Yoakum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What we have here is two interesting Chapman scripts padded out to book length with a few bag-of-a-fag-packet unfunny 'sketches' and some poorly reproduced photographs.
Graham Chapman was a comedy legend but his memory is not well-served when the so-called 'Graham Chapman Archives' throw stuff together like this to make a quick buck.
The other sketches are short, unfunny nothings written when Chapman was very ill and don't deserve to see print, but evidently the 'Chapman Archives' from where this stuff originates is rather sparse when it comes to good, publishable stuff.
www.amazon.ca /Ojril-Completely-Incomplete-Graham-Chapman/dp/1574882708   (604 words)

  
 Pythonline > Biographies > Graham Chapman
Yes this is the rags to riches story of GRAHAM CHAPMAN, the boyish ex-medic who forsook forceps for fun and found there was more gold in them thar' Hollywood Hills than there ever was in them thar' pills.
A policeman's son, the wacky Chapman majored in medicine before the lure of the dollar prised him from Britain's penniless and collapsing National Health Service.
Former fysician Graham may well soon be able to hang up his little fl bag and concentrate on his Croesus portrayal, if the word-of-mouth on Python's new blockbuster is anything to go by.
www.pythonline.com /plugs/chapman/index.shtml   (267 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Monty Python's Graham Chapman: Looks Like A Brown Trouser Job: DVD: Richard S. Miller,Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After ascending the ladder to fame as a key member of the legendary Monty Python troupe in the 1970s, Graham Chapman spent the following decade entertaining audiences with a series of "comedy lectures" at college campuses across North America.
Consisting of anecdotes taken from both his eventful private life as well as his outrageous adventures with the so-called Dangerous Sports Club that included such luminaries as Keith Moon and many former Pythons, Graham's lively one-man shows offered a fittingly intimate and hilarious final chapter in a rich and rewarding career.
Now fans of the legendary comic can take a trip back in time to see Chapman at his absolute prime in this release, which captures some of the most memorable moments from his tireless one-man tour.
www.amazon.ca /Monty-Pythons-Graham-Chapman-Trouser/dp/B0007YMUJ8   (296 words)

  
 style.org > Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
By inverting this midpoint Strouhal ratio of 0.3 (fA/U ≈ 0.3), Graham K. Taylor et al.
Responses are posted here, along with a revised estimate from Dr Graham K. Taylor, and some alternate theories.
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
www.style.org /unladenswallow   (1050 words)

  
 Graham Chapman : Comedian Profile
Chapman studied medicine at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, where he began writing comedy with classmate John Cleese.
One of his particularly famous sketches was the character of The Colonel, a stuffy army officer who occasionally appeared out of nowhere to order the end of a sketch for being too silly.
After his death, speculation of a Python revival inevitably faded—as Idle said, "we would only do a reunion if Graham came back from the dead.
www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/c/chapman-graham.htm   (436 words)

  
 Graham Chapman Movies @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle
With Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Michael Palin
Click here for region 2 encoded Graham Chapman DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
www.filmbug.com /db/30215-2   (164 words)

  
 Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chapman put his medical career on hold and joined John Cleese on his tour with "Cambridge Circus", which ran on Broadway in Oct. 1964.
In England, he wrote for the "Doctor"-Series together with Bernard McKenna and John Cleese.
See the Internet Movie Database entry on Graham Chapman [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]
bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Bio/Chapman.html   (249 words)

  
 Graham Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leicester, England while...
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 Daily Llama - NEWS 1998_10_05 - Monty Python's Daily Llama Announces New Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Today, on the 29th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, we take great pleasure in announcing the new website for Monty Python's Daily Llama, the semi-official news source for gossip, news, and retrospectives on the Monty Python troupe.
A complete encyclopedia, bibliography, news reports, and more can be found at the Daily Llama website on Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Monty Python!
Lots of new art work, new animations, new news, lots of surprises!
www.dailyllama.com /news/1998/llama086.html   (146 words)

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