Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays & Gondolas

Graham Chapman was more than a professional jokester. Like those other outstanding comics Spike Milligan and Peter Cook he had an innate belief in absurdity as a way of life-his humour and sheer joy in madness for its own sake was as likely to find its outlet on the street as on the stage. The other Pythons often said that just listening to Graham tell them about one of his wild evenings out was fodder for a dozen sketches. He was inventive, fearless, and willing to take chances. Openly gay, capable of outrageous alcohol-fueled behaviour, Graham Chapman lived an untidy life, and in some respects this book mirrors that. Inside is everything from television scripts and sketches to humorous essays on serious topics, comic flights of fancy that serve no purpose except to elicit a laugh, letters to friends and fellow hellraisers like Keith Moon and Ringo Starr, his behind-the-scenes account of the filming of Life of Brian, his views on fellow Pythons, letters to God, and much more. Most of the material has never before been published and offers unique insights into Chapman+s life as well as his lasting impact on British comedy. With an introduction by Jim Yoakum, archivist of the Chapman estate, Calcium Made Interesting is a celebration of the best of Chapman+s work, and is as funny, innovative and surreal as any Python sketch.

Biographies & Memoirs

CHAPMAN, Graham

Yoakum, Jim

Arts & Literature

Macmillan, UK

The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman

Humor & Entertainment

IDLE, ERIC

Humor

Chrysalis Books

The behind-the-scenes story of how the Monty Python television series was written, and created, authored by the US Curator of the Graham Chapman Archives. This book, unlike any other about the team or series, explodes some age-old myths; clear-up some age-old debates, and give a rare insight into the making of a team and a series. This book gives the reader knowledge about much previously unknown information, and trivia - much that didn't appear in even the Python's own book of the troupe. Monty Python Vs The World is the definitive written history of how the Pythons came together, created a TV series that changed comedy forever, and then (accidentally) changed the world.

Monty Python VS The World: How Monty Python Accidentally Changed The World

Television

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

1923: Faced with impending personal and political scandals (corrupt cabinet members, drinking, gambling, failing health made worse by a quack physician, blackmailers attempting to exploit his numerous affairs and bastard children, murders and suicides), President Warren G. Harding embarks on a cross-country train trip, from Washington D.C. to Alaska, in an effort to rehabilitate his chances for re-election--something he is unsure he even wants. But the GOP have lost faith in Warren. However, they have taken a liking to the idea of running the first-ever female president: Florence, his smart, and ambitious wife. After all, it had been Florence who had spearheaded the innovations that not only got Warren elected in 1920, but which are still used today: the creation of solicitation-telephone calls, celebrity endorsements, photo-ops, news reels, radio ads, direct marketing... And it was Florence who is both the brains of the outfit, and the star of this show. Harding is simply the handsome, good natured, overly-trusting, face.Based on the true, last (and unbelievably bizarre) six months in the life of America's 29th President, THE BLOVIATOR tells the story of sex, drugs, scandals, blackmail, murder, suicides--and the presidency. THE BLOVIATOR is a "fiction fueled by fact" in that while some elements are constructions, they are well with-in the plausible, and probable, range of the facts. THE BLOVIATOR is an epic; a massive and sprawling work; history as absurdity, as if it were being filtered through a cracked prism--but the prism is not cracked. Most of the story told here is unbelievably, incredibly, based on true events.

The Bloviator: Sex, Drugs, Fraud, Suicide, Murder, Scandal, Adultery, Quackery, Corruption, Superstition and President Warren G. Harding.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Greatest Living Englishman

Humor & Satire

A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the middle of political intrigue and revolution on the island of Costa San Rica while trying to save the agency's banana account.

The Banana Massacre

The Chinese Gunman

Recounts the author's life and experiences as a member of the Monty Python troupe, and offers a selection of comedy scripts and humorous articles

Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies

Career Pr Inc

Book by Chapman, Graham, Yoakum, Jim

Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman

Movies

University Of Nebraska Press

A federal agent goes rogue in 1970s-era Detroit and becomes its number one heroin distributor. But also among his crimes are extortion, illegal gun sales and explosives to gangs and the Detroit Mafia, fraud, blackmail, the attempt to rob an armored car, the threat to bomb the airport--and more. He was a dirty fed who operated under the noses of both his agency, and the police for years, but a simple mistake brought his attention to his superiors, and it took two cunning and relentless internal affairs agents to hunt him down, and bring him and his gang to justice. A gripping true story of a very bad man who got down and dirty in Detroit.

Down and Dirty in Detroit: How Two ATF Agents Took Down the Dirtiest Fed in 1970s Detroit

True Crime

Independently published

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