Why it sucks that Graham Chapman is dead
Every now and then one of the old Monty python's flying circus still airs on TV and its an instant rating canon. In every European nation and American state.
The ridiculous antics of the Monty python crew continues to amuse us and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I love it. You love it. We don't even need to decide whether they rule or sucks because its a foregone conclusion.
One of the funniest python men, Graham Chapman, died in 1989 and the group split up to go their own way. It still sucks that Chapman died when he did because his lyrics and his sketches and his characters were the heart and soul of many sketches. He played Arthur in the holy grail for one, a role we're not likely to forget.
He's also the only British comedian who managed to write a lovesong involving sexually transmitted diseases. Don't believe me? I copied the transcript of a Monty Python website:
Medical love song
Inflammation of the foreskin
Reminds me of
your smile
I've had
balanital chancroids
For quite a
little while
I gave my
heart to NSU
[Non-Specific Urethritis]
That lovely
night in June
I ache for
you, my darling,
And I hope
you'll get well soon
My penile
warts, your herpes,
My syphilitic
sore,
Your monilial
infection
How I miss
you more and more
Your *dobies
itch my *scrum-pox
Ah, lovely
gonorrhea
At least we
both were lying
When we said
that we were clear
My
clapped-out genitalia
Is not so bad
for me
As the
complete and utter failure
Every time I
try to pee
I'm dying
from your love, my love,
I'm your
spirochetal clown
I've left my
body to science,
But I'm
afraid they've turned it down
Gonococcal
urethritis
Streptococcal
balanitis
Meningomyelitis
*Diplococcal
*catholitis
Epidydimitis
Interstitial
keratitis
Syphilitic
coronitis
And anterior
*ureitis.
-- Graham Chapman
Now, I don't know many of the terms used in that song (thanks for that) but anyone who can write a song with so many medical terms and get away with it as being funny is a comic genious in my book.
Chapman has been missed and we'l continue to miss him. Lick feet in heaven you funny queer lunatic!
Graham Chapman rules!
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