Monty Python
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Monty Python har jag älskat sen jag såg deras filmer för några år sedan. Men eftersom att jag påvisar stora tecken på ADHD så blir jag ibland besatt av vissa saker. Och för tillfället är det Monty Python. Och sikka grabbar va? Dom är ju helt underbara. Men det jag tänkte blogga om nu är faktiskt det tal som John Cleese höll på den bortgågna medlemmen Graham Chapmans begravning. Mycket fint äre.
A private memorial service for Chapman was held on the evening of 6 December 1989 in the Great Hall at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Cleese delivered his eulogy, which began as follows:
| “ | Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more.
He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's 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, of such capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be 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 feel I should say this is he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw — threw away this glorious opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him but mindless good taste. ...[5] |
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Cleese continued after a break from laughter in the audience, claiming Chapman had whispered in his ear the night before, when he was writing the speech, saying:
| “ | All right Cleese. I know you are very proud of being the very first person ever to say 'shit' on British television. If this service is really for me: Just for starters, I want you to become the first person ever at a British memorial service to say 'fuck'. | ” |
Palin also spoke and said that he liked to think that Chapman was there with them all that day — "or rather, he will be in about twenty-five minutes," a joke in reference to Chapman's habitual lateness when they were all working together. Afterwards, Idle led other surviving Python members along with Chapman's family and close friends, in a rendition of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from the film Monty Python's Life of Brian. Not to be outdone by Cleese, Idle was heard saying during the song's close: "I'd just like to be the last person at this meeting to say 'fuck'. Thank you very much, God bless you, Graham."
Detta har jag mycket fult snott från min favoritsida Wikipedia !
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