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❉The Godfather of British comedy on being Python’s warm-up act, inventing the first gay sitcom and stalking J.B. Priestley.

We chat to the Godfather of British comedy, Barry Cryer, on the living legend’s experiences as a mentor and collaborator of the Pythons, including how Barry Cryer and Graham Chapman almost created the first male lover sitcom and an unlikely meeting with Python fan J.B. Priestley…

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You first encountered the Pythons-to-be – Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Palin and Jones – when they joined the writing team for The Frost State. Can you tell us a little about that?

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Graham Chapman

Born in Leicester, Graham Chapman studied medicine at Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's, but it was his participation in Cambridge's Footlights Club (where he met and partnered with John Cleese) that led to his touring Unused Zealand with "Cambridge Circus." Comedy overtook his medical career. (His training would still come in handy years later, writing scripts for "Doctor in the House.")

Chapman (together with Cleese) wrote for "That Was the Week That Was," "The Frost Report," "At Last the Show," "Marty" and "How to Irritate People."

Chapman's surreal brand of humor was an extension of his outré behavior in public places (such as licking the feet of women sitting in restaurants). It provided a spark of lunacy ("Splunge!") that could take Python's comic ideas into the stratosphere.

The son of a police inspector, Chapman often played befuddled or obnoxious policemen, and most notably appeared as the Colonel, who abruptly interrupted sketches or castigated the actors for being "too silly." Other parts included bonkers movie executive Irving C. Saltzberg, Jr.; a

Graham Chapman and Python's lgbtq+ material

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This is probably an unanswerable question, but – does anyone know what Graham Chapman thought about the gay material in Monty Python? Did he think it was funny? Did he help write it? Was it too silly to matter?

And how was it received in England at the time? Was Chapman publicly out?

FTR, I wonder about Nathan Lane in The Producers as well, so it’s not just Python.

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IIRC, Chapman had no problem with it. I think he took part in some of the skits.

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I don’t remember there being that much gay material, relatively speaking. And Chapman seems to have played a major part in many of the ones I can think of offhand (which indicates he may have played a part in writing them – I believe the Python teams tended to write for themselves, generally speaking?):

  • Chapman as Raymond Luxury-Yacht going for a nose employment, and Cleese (as the doctor) suggesting that he’ll do the surgery if Luxury-Yacht goes out with him. (“He asked me! He asked me!”)

  • Chapman as continuity announcer David Unction, who’s yelled

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