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GRAHAM CHAPMAN BOOKS
The Odd Job (the novelization of the film that was co-written, co-produced by, and starred Graham Chapman; it is about an English gentleman who becomes depressed when his wife leaves him and hires an odd job man to help him commit suicide and then changes his mind)
This is Their Life: An Insight Into the Unseen
Lives of Your Favourite T.V. Personalities (a collection of background details, facts and figures, family statistics, birthdates, and other biographical data on hundreds of British and American television personalities; includes information about Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Michael Palin; the book mentions Graham's openness about his homosexuality and that if John were an inch taller, the book says, he would be medically classified as a 'giant')
A Liar's Autobiography, Vol. VI (an autobiography by Graham Chapman; Chapman begins with lengthier fantasy passages, and eases into his own real-life story; he frankly discusses his battle with alcohol, his homosexuality, his medical studies, and his involvement with Python; written contributions were also provided by David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop, and Douglas Adams; it is also available on audio cassette)
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (book contains scripts and photos, with program notes throughout by Terry Jones and Michael Palin, book includes "Introduction" by John Cleese and the cast; also starred Graham Chapman)
Footlights!: A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy (1983) (see Eric Idle)
Yellowbeard (based on the screenplay by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, and Bernard McKenna; the story of Yellowbeard, a notorious pirate, who escapes from prison and goes in search of his son and his buried treasure; includes lots of color photos from the film; 64 pages)
The Golden Skits of Wing Commander Muriel Volestrangler FRHS & BAR (1984) (see John Cleese)
Son of "Curried Eggs": A Second
Helping of Classic Comedy Sketches (a follow-up book to Roger Wilmut's "No More Curried Eggs For Me;" this collection of British sketches includes "Sheepdog Trials" written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman written for the "At Last The 1948 Show" and "Wife-Swopping Party Song" written by Eric Idle for "Rutland Weekend Television")
The Courage to Change: Hope and Help for
Alcoholics and Their Families (a collection of interviews with well-known alcoholics and their families, in which they discuss their battles with alcohol; included is a chapter on Graham Chapman)
The Utterly, Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas
Book (contains material by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman; included is the story of "Biggles and the Groupies" by Michael Palin; "A Christmas Fairly Story" by Terry Jones and Dougas Adams; "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" shorty story by Douglas Adams based on an original sketch by Adams and Graham Chapman; also included is a photograph of the comedy lecture with Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)
The Utterly, Utterly Amusing and Pretty Damn
Definitive Comic Relief Revue Book (a collection of humor and sketches from the Comic Relief shows in support of charities in Africa such as Oxfam and Save the Children; includes is material from Grahapm Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones and Michael Palin; there is a page on "The Parrot Sketch Through the Ages" showing how the parrot sketch was performed in different historical periods; Horace - A Poem written by Terry Jones bug never performed; The Last Suppoer sketch written by John Cleese; the "Hendon" sketch by Terry Jones and Michael Palin; the "John and Mary" sketch written by John Cleese and Bill Oddie; "The Good Old Days" sketch by John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor)
The 90's A Look Back: A History of the 1990s
Before They Happen (a large collection of comic writing about what life will be like in the 1990s; contributors include Tony Hendra, George Carlin, Penn & Teller, Bob Saget, and Bill Murray; Graham Chapman is credited on the team of writers but he is not credited for having contributed a specific chapter)
Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Sillybits,
and Outright Lies (this is a semi-sequel to Graham Chapman's "A Liar's Autobiography" written by Graham Chapman and David Sherlock, Graham's long-time companion; compiled and edited by Jim Yoakum, a good friend of Graham's; includes excerpts from Graham's college lecture tour - an entire lecture is available on CD as A Six Pack of Lies - and other interviews and sketch material; includes a foreword by John Cleese, a backward by Eric Idle, and a sideways by Terry Jones)
OJRIL - The Completely Incomplete Graham
Chapman (a collection of unplubished scripts from Graham Chapman's personal archives; the collection was selected and edited by Jim Yoakum; includes the script for an hour-long television special Our Show for Ringo Starr by Chapman and Douglas Adams, the script for the pilot of Graham Chapman's unaired sitcom Jake's Journey for CBS television, a sketch called Concrete Inspector by Chapman and Jim Yoakum, and a sketch called by VD; the book includes a bibliography section contributed by Hans ten Cate of PythOnline's Daily Llama; the book also includes a foreword by Eric Idle)
I Almost Killed Goerge Burns! And Other Gut-Splitting
Tales from the World's Greates Comedy Event Just for Laughs (a history of the Montreal Just for Laughs festival, as told by TV producer Andy Nulman, who was the CEO of Just for Laughs; the book includes an anecdote about Graham Chapman's 18 July 1987 appearance at the festival, doing one of his famous comedy lectures, at the end of which he tossed actual dead fish into the audience causing many audience members to return the next day demanding the theater pay their dry cleaning bill)
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy
One Last Time (a posthumous publication of some of Douglas Adams's writings, including the unfinished manuscript of a new Dirk Gently book, as well as stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters from Adams's archives; the initial edition of this book included the short story "The Private Life of Genghis Khan," based on an original sketch devised by Graham Chapman and written by Chapman and Adams for the Graham Chapman Television Show "Out of the Trees" in 1975; the story also appears in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book from 1986; subsequent editions of Salmon of Doubt do not have this short story due to legal issues)
Yellowbeard: Hijinks on the High Seas! (Yellowbeard contains Chapman's original novel and screenplay, plus interviews with John Daly, the film's producer, and cast members Cheech & Chong, Nigel Planer, Peter Boyle, and others. Its timely release coincides with the Broadway premier of Monty Python's Spamalot)
Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters,
Essays and Gondolas (Most of the material in this book has never before been published and offers unique insights into Chapman's life as well as his lasting impact on British comedy. Jim Yoakum included several serious essays also.)
Life of Graham: The Authorised Biography
of Graham Chapman (this is Graham Chapman's official biography written with the full cooperation of the Pythons and Chapman's partner David Sherlock - with full access to never-before-seen pictures; Bob McCabe has written and edited several other Monty Python books, including The Pythons: Autobiography by the Pythons and Dark Knights and Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam)
A Liar's Appendix (a sequel to Graham Chapman's "A Liar's Autobiography" written by David Sherlock, Graham's long-time companion; edited by Jim Yoakum; this book is still in the works and has not been released)
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