Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Graham Chapman on his birthday 🎂
📷 Chris Steele-Perkins, 1987
The parrot sketch was originally about a car.
"While John Cleese was typing it up, & dotting the Is & crossing the Ts, Graham took his pipe out of his mouth & said ‘what about a parrot’?"
- Bob McCabe

A more formal shot of Graham Chapman by Chris Steele-Perkins, 1987

Boxing Tonight: Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Sir Kenneth (Graham Chapman): "This then is the height of the English Renaissance, the triumph of Classical over Gothic..."
(Bodell knocks Sir Kenneth down)
Voice Over: "He's down! Sir Kenneth Clark is down in eight seconds."
#MPFC

Graham Chapman by John Downing, 1987
Splunge?

The Pythons by Ben Martin
Los Angeles, 1975
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman

The Pythons by Alan Howard, 1971
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones.
Apparently they're imitating broadcaster Alan Whicker. Americans - & Canadians like me - missed out on a lot of British references like this watching Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Ronnie Corbett talks with critic Jack Tinker, for the BBC's TV series The Prince of Denmark. Behind them, Graham Chapman, who wrote the series with Barry Cryer.
📷 Jeremy Grayson, 1974