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John Cleese says he still communicates with his Monty Python co-star Graham Chapman 35 years after his death.
Chapman played the lead role in the films Holy Grail and Life of Brian. He died of tonsil cancer in 1989.
And now John has revealed he hired a medium to ‘explore his consciousness’ but instead received a message from Chapman.
He told the Club Random Podcast with Bill Maher: ‘She said: “Who is Graham?” I said, “Is he Graham Chapman?” She said, “He’s talking about a blowjob.” I said, “Yes. He always smoked a pipe.”
Referring to the sketch of their dead parrot, the medium said: “Then she said, ‘He’s rolling up his pant leg.’ And I said, ‘Yes, that’s a sketch we did on the Freemasons”. I know she hasn’t seen it. It’s been broadcast once or twice. She said, ‘He’s waving at you a parrot.’
John Cleese says he still communicates with his Monty Python co-star Graham Chapman – who died 35 years ago
Chapman played the lead role in the films Holy Grail and Life of Brian. He died of tonsil cancer in 1989
John called Graham, his late Monty Python co-star, a lunatic who was convinced his friends were ripping him off.
At Chapman’s memorial, Cleese delivered a eulogy to Chapman with a dark humor that he thought Chapman would have appreciated.
He said Chapman would never forgive him if he missed the “glorious opportunity” to shock the world on his behalf and become the first person at a British televised memorial service to say “fuck”.
Television history was made after Michael Palin, Graham, John, Eric Idle and American presenter Terry Gilliam sat down in a north London tandoori restaurant in 1969 to discuss working together on a new BBC comedy.
They wanted to get away from the punchlines and structure of traditional sketch comedy.
The irreverent television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus was born, debuting late on a Sunday evening on BBC One on October 5, 1969, just before the weather report.
Some 45 episodes of the series, with its surreal, stream-of-consciousness style, were broadcast until 1974, and won Bafta awards and even spawned a German spin-off.
Jones made his directorial debut, alongside Gilliam, with Monty Python And The Holy Grail in 1975.
Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin rose to fame in 1969.
Jones then directed Life Of Brian (1979), about an unfortunate man mistaken for Jesus.
The film was called blasphemous but has since been voted the funniest of all time.
Jones also directed The Meaning Of Life (1983), the Pythons’ last film together.
It featured loosely related sketches and the unforgettable song Every Sperm Is Sacred.