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Text 254, 128 rader
Skriven 2005-04-25 03:24:16 av RW (1:379/45)
    Kommentar till text 253 av George Kincaid (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Graham Chapman's funeral speech
===========================================
From: AchterQuack@gmail.com (RW)

And they poured some tea in. But that 1998 reunion is not the thing I mean.


"George Kincaid" <george.kincaid@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:<JQZae.118806$cg1.29512@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> Graham made an "appearance" in a cremation urn on an HBO special on Python
> Robert Klein hosted a few years ago. He was "telegraphing" a response when
> Terry Gilliam kicked his urn across the stage. A janitor came out with a
> Dust Devil and swept him away! Classic stuff.
> "RW" <AchterQuack@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a2a7601b.0504231215.63dfaa13@posting.google.com...
> > Cool, and I know a video fragment for the first half of his speech,
> > but has anyone got the entire memorial service on tape??? Please?????
> >
> >
> > "Heidi" <kill_ugly_radio@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:<zrednTthPP6V2vffRVnyhQ@brightview.com>...
> >> Just thought some people might like to see it, i thought it was VERY john
> >> cleese!
> >>
> >> Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch,' is no more.
> >>
> >> He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the
> >> bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and
> >> gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky, and I
> >> guess
> >> that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, such
> >> capability and kindness, of such intelligence should now be so suddenly
> >> spirited away at the age of only forty-eight, before he'd achieved many
> >> of
> >> the things of which he was capable, and before he'd had enough fun.
> >>
> >> Well, I feel that I should say, "Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the
> >> freeloading bastard! I hope he fries. "
> >>
> >> And the reason I think I should say this is, he would never forgive me if
> >> I
> >> didn't, if I threw away this opportunity to shock you all on his behalf.
> >> Anything for him but mindless good taste. I could hear him whispering in
> >> my
> >> ear last night as I was writing this:
> >>
> >> "Alright, Cleese, you're very proud of being the first person to ever say
> >> 'shit' on television. If this service is really for me, just for
> >> starters, I
> >> want you to be the first person ever at a British memorial service to say
> >> 'fuck'!"
> >>
> >> You see, the trouble is, I can't. If he were here with me now I would
> >> probably have the courage, because he always emboldened me. But the truth
> >> is, I lack his balls, his splendid defiance. And so I'll have to content
> >> myself instead with saying 'Betty Mardsen...'
> >>
> >> But bolder and less inhibited spirits than me follow today. Jones and
> >> Idle,
> >> Gilliam and Palin. Heaven knows what the next hour will bring in Graham's
> >> name. Trousers dropping, blasphemers on pogo sticks, spectacular displays
> >> of
> >> high-speed farting, synchronised incest. One of the four is planning to
> >> stuff a dead ocelot and a 1922 Remington typewriter up his own arse to
> >> the
> >> sound of the second movement of Elgar's cello concerto. And that's in the
> >> first half.
> >>
> >> Because you see, Gray would have wanted it this way. Really. Anything for
> >> him but mindless good taste. And that's what I'll always remember about
> >> him---apart, of course, from his Olympian extravagance. He was the prince
> >> of
> >> bad taste. He loved to shock. In fact, Gray, more than anyone I knew,
> >> embodied and symbolised all that was most offensive and juvenile in Monty
> >> Python. And his delight in shocking people led him on to greater and
> >> greater
> >> feats. I like to think of him as the pioneering beacon that beat the path
> >> along which fainter spirits could follow.
> >>
> >> Some memories. I remember writing the undertaker speech with him, and him
> >> suggesting the punch line, 'All right, we'll eat her, but if you feel bad
> >> about it afterwards, we'll dig a grave and you can throw up into it.' I
> >> remember discovering in 1969, when we wrote every day at the flat where
> >> Connie Booth and I lived, that he'd recently discovered the game of
> >> printing
> >> four-letter words on neat little squares of paper, and then quietly
> >> placing
> >> them at strategic points around our flat, forcing Connie and me into
> >> frantic
> >> last minute paper chases whenever we were expecting important guests.
> >>
> >> I remember him at BBC parties crawling around on all fours, rubbing
> >> himself
> >> affectionately against the legs of gray-suited executives, and delicately
> >> nibbling the more appetizing female calves. Mrs. Eric Morecambe remembers
> >> that too.
> >>
> >> I remember his being invited to speak at the Oxford union, and entering
> >> the
> >> chamber dressed as a carrot---a full length orange tapering costume with
> >> a
> >> large, bright green sprig as a hat----and then, when his turn came to
> >> speak,
> >> refusing to do so. He just stood there, literally speechless, for twenty
> >> minutes, smiling beatifically. The only time in world history that a
> >> totally
> >> silent man has succeeded in inciting a riot.
> >>
> >> I remember Graham receiving a Sun newspaper TV award from Reggie
> >> Maudling.
> >> Who else! And taking the trophy falling to the ground and crawling all
> >> the
> >> way back to his table, screaming loudly, as loudly as he could. And if
> >> you
> >> remember Gray, that was very loud indeed.
> >>
> >> It is magnificent, isn't it? You see, the thing about shock... is not
> >> that
> >> it upsets some people, I think; I think that it gives others a momentary
> >> joy
> >> of liberation, as we realised in that instant that the social rules that
> >> constrict our lives so terribly are not actually very important.
> >>
> >> Well, Gray can't do that for us anymore. He's gone. He is an ex-Chapman.
> >> All
> >> we have of him now is our memories. But it will be some time before they
> >> fade.

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