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| Monty Pythons Meaning of Life is an album released by Monty Python in 1983, in conjunction with the movie The Meaning of Life. The album mainly consists of sketches from the film, with a few links performed by Michael Palin. A compact disc version was later released. |
Having said that, some of their finest & funniest stuff is in this film - Crimson Permanent Assurance, Every Sperm Is Sacred, & Mr Creosote leave me helpless every time. Other sketches have a fair number of laughs , though other sketches make you wonder whether Chapman was back on the booze when it was written.
The piece de resistance, though, comes immediately after Every Sperm.... Graham Chapman & Eric Idle play the Protestants who live across from Palin & Jones' Catholic Family; the writing & acting come together so perfectly that I'd have to rate that short sketch as the culmination, the zenith, of all things Python. Almost worth buying for that short sketch alone.
Graham Arthur Chapman was a British comedian & writer. He was one of the six Monty Python members & lead actor in their two narrative films. Chapman studied medicine at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, where he began writing comedy with classmate John Cleese. He qualified as a doctor at the Barts Hospital Medical College. The duo wrote professionally on the BBC during the 1960s, primarily for the ubiquitous David Frost but also for Marty Feldman. They joined Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle & American artist Terry Gilliam for Monty Pythons Flying Circus in 1969. Cleese & Chapmans classic Python sketches included The Ministry of Silly Walks & Dead Parrot. 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 Cleese left the show in 1973, Chapman wrote alone for the final season. He then developed a number of movie scripts, most notably Yellowbeard, where he starred with Cleese, Peter Cook & Cheech & Chong.
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John Marwood Cleese is a British comedian & actor most well known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python & for playing Basil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers. Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol. His talent for comedy emerged as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Revue during the time that he was a law student at Downing College, Cambridge. His familys surname was previously Cheese, but his father Reginald Francis Cheese, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to Cleese upon joining the army in 1915 . He married Connie Booth on February 20, 1968 & they divorced in 1978. He became famous as one of the members of the Monty Python team which created the 1969-74 television series Monty Pythons Flying Circus ; Cleese is particularly remembered for the Cheese Shop, The Ministry of Silly Walks & Dead Parrot sketches. He achieved later success as the awful hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he also cowrote with then wife Connie Booth. Cleese is noted for his talent for expressing indignation & peevish outrage.
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