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Title: Spot the Loony
Author: Graham Chapman
Narrator: Graham Chapman
Format: Original Recording
Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-27-17
Publisher: Right Recordings
Genres: Comedy, Classic British
Publisher's Summary:
Recorded during Graham's final tour of the US in 1988, Loony keeps us engaged, amused, stimulated and informed.
Whether or not you have heard these stories before, you will want to listen to them again...and again.
Members Reviews:
Graham Chapman In Top Form
Released in 2016, SPOT THE LOONY is a real surprise.
If you're reading this review and wondering who Graham Chapman was, he was one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Usually he played brittle authority figures. Although the characters he played were usually fundamentally crazy, in the Python world, Chapman tended to be the straight man. What SPOT THE LOONY does is provide you with an uninterrupted hour of Graham Chapman's verbal dexterity. He was as good a raconteur as any of the other members of the troupe has proven to be.
This is a recording of Graham Chapman speaking in front of an audience at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown's an Ivy league school. A British equivalent would be Cambridge or Oxford. This is exactly the audience he should have been speaking to, and they love him. The laughter is a constant roar. For about twenty minutes, he discusses the Dangerous Sports Club, a real organization he was part of, and this is as sustained a moment of comedy as you'll ever hear. It is P.G. Wodehouse with a violent streak.
Graham Chapman also comes across as an extremely affable fellow. Obviously, we're eavesdropping on a beloved comedian talking to an audience of fans, but, nonetheless, he is disarmingly personable, and, after years of reading about the behind-the-scenes life of Python, I have to say I never expected to be delighted with a recording of this man. I expected to laugh, but I was not prepared to wish I had been able to be in an audience at his one-man show.
I believe even casual fans of Monty Python will enjoy this as much as I did.
and teaching John Cleese to ride a bicycle) and his participation in the Dangerous Sports Club (an adventure club for those who
Graham Chapman will long be remembered for his role in the legendary British surrealistic comedy troupe Monty Python. He has been immortalized in the lead roles of Python movies Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even decades after his passing in 1989 he is remembered by legions of fans, and his work is quoted as part of daily life. Right Recordings offers us a live recording of a performance that occurred on April 15, 1988 at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA. More storytelling than stand-up comedy, the result is over an hour of laughs.
Chapman opens his set by asking the audience to give him 30 seconds of abuse. As he encourages them to cast vitriol at the stage, counting the seconds, the roar of the crowd nearly drowns out his words of motivation. Finally, after thanking the attendees, he remarks that this will save time later. Graham then settles in to telling stories about his famous friends (how Keith Moon stole him a bottle of gin, and teaching John Cleese to ride a bicycle) and his participation in the Dangerous Sports Club (an adventure club for those who enjoy activities that could end in their injury). The second half of this performance is a question and answer session, where the audience poses questions, primarily related to Monty Python, such as why were coconuts used instead of horses in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (budgetary reasons) and how Chapman dealt with his full frontal nudity scene in Life of Brian.
