Wonderful.

Awesome. Classy while also poking fun at being classy

This is my favourite clip of any media of all time.

"Anything for him, but mindless good taste." I can't even imagine a better epitaph.

There is a fucking great inspiration to taken o4 sucked from here don’t yo think brainless, hairless mammels. Thank you both, for this I know the very first words for mine could sound( or mill sound like this: Gaël wished told you. He will ev3etually quit smoking, and wanted to be ther but he was kept by his urn. ,now that we…

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Bloody Wonderful , R.I.P. Mr Chapman

Just about perfect. We know how he feels, he had no need to elaborate. One look at his face tells you everything you want to know.

That's Classic John Cleese right there. Love it. Graham definetly approved.

Comedy Legends! 😂❤

Gods all....

Best eulogy 😂 ever! Cleese irreverently saying au revoir to ole GC😊

The British character is thus truly expressed in the loss of one of our finest. God give you rest, Graham Chapman.

Each time someone gets scandalised by black humour, I answer them with this. They almost never disappoint me, almost always keeping on not getting it. 😁

Genuinely how id like mine to be

Please God, let someone have enough respect for me when I die, to give me at the very least, this kind of loving send off. Cheers!

Curious. Later they would all say Graham was not easy to like. They all thought Graham was an awkward fellow, never personable, always at a distance and ironically, rather serious.

Sometimes you have to be funny, or you will lose your fucking mind.

No need to be complacent. He (Graham) would have laughed the hardest.

If my funeral is serious and boring then i failed at life and was not worth the air.

He's not dead, he's pining.

Love this video!!

This is how you know your mates actually loved you.

I approve of this performance 🤟

if i'm ever diagnosed with a terminal illness, i'm going to write something to be read at my funeral. and it will be filled with some of the most atrocious, controversial things so i can have someone be cancelled as my parting gift. i hope chapman is in a happier place.

What an outstanding bit of comedy John Cleese's eulogy was. The composure, the timing, playing off of the audience. At the funeral of his childhood friend. In front of the departed's friends and family. And it was so simple but so profound. We pass through life seeing our loved ones in different lights, having them wear different faces. They're fathers and mothers, friends and confidants, inspirations and great influences on the next of kin's lives. And Clesse summed it up, all of it. All the words I've heard in person in funerals real or in media by that beautiful sentiment and the brilliant drop of "Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard". From romantic reminiscence to deadpan dunking on. From darkness to light. Smiles and laughter from hearts overflowing with grief. To me, this is what it's all about, comedy. Making life just a little bit lighter.

May Graham Chapman be at peace. I didn't knew him prior to this video. Maybe I saw him in somewhere on Mont Python clips but I never knew the name. May he be at peace.

This should be preserved as one of the greatest short comedy speeches in the history of the world. Cleese took them from a state of complete despair, to a subtle laugh about British television, to a full raucous with the morbid punchline, “Good riddance to him…and the reason I feel I should say this…”. I am sure it wasn’t the first recorded funeral comedy roast, but can you cite an earlier one?

Only the British! Wonderful.

this is the funniest funeral ever 😂

Supposedly, except up until the last moments when Cleese couldn't handle it anymore and had to leave the room, the Pythons were all ripping at each other still while Chapman lay on his deathbed in the hospital. It takes a special sense of bravery to do that.

I know this is years old, but I could feel the love in that eulogy. So, so much love. Oh, my heart.

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John Cleese is pure genius!

This video was posted 17 years ago, which was 17 years after the eulogy

I got my love of british humor from my grandmother (born in UK) and especially Monty Python at a young age (4-5) I didn't get it at first but when i did i REALLY laughed and saw the brillance of it all. They are all so funny. RIP to the members who are not with us in 2023.

This is a literally hilarious yet touching at the same time, since the funny bit is that they literally said swear words in a church and the heartwarming bit is that at least they get to crack one more laugh with Graham Chapman even if he's dead.

I want my funeral to be a roast.

This was such a touching tribute.

The most witty, poignant, briliant and appropriate "Fuck" I have ever heard. Pure comic genius.

Oh my. I want my eulogy to be like that one day. It won't be, because my family (what there is of it) are solemn, christian, broomstick-up-the-bum people, but fortunately when the time comes I will be dead and won't have to listen to their drivel about what a nice and lovely person I was (I'm not) and how sad they are I'm gone (Maybe one or two of them will actually be).

From what I understand, Chapman would have wanted it this way...

if anybody would'nt want a stuffy eulogy it would be graham chapman. the man was made of laughter

WASN'T HE TRANSGENDER? JUST ASKING, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.

I am nearly 70. At some time, in the not so distant future, someone ( not sure who...largely influenced, I suppose, by selecting a friend who is not, as yet, already dead...) will be speaking at some sort of service re: me. I am adding, therefore, to my living will that I will require them to speak of me as Mr. Cleese has of his great friend and creative collaborator. ( I have already required a huge party to spend any money that I had carelessly failed to squander....) Safe journey to Mr.Chapman, Mr.Cleese, and to all and sundry,

Terry Jones lost it in laughter there!

The love Cleese and the rest of the Python gang feel and felt for Chapman is so very evident in this short video. Chapman and the rest were such a tremendous gift to us all.

i'm not crying you're crying

I remember when my dad introduced me to Monty Python on PBS when I was pre-teen. My dad's name was ironically Monte. My life has been made better for eternity because of these guys. I will shed a tear for each and everyone when they pass on to Heaven. When I stop crying I will remember that when my time comes, Heaven will be awesome!

I recently had a friend pass away due to cancer. He was a pastor and a Python devotee (he played the Swamp King in local productions of Spamalot). With this eulogy in mind, I figured there would be shenanigans at the funeral. No one was the first person ever to say fuck in a United Methodist funeral, but the closing song was a full round of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life with *all* the original lyrics.