A review by crowyhead
The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons by Graham Chapman

4.0

This is sort of like "The Python Anthology." The remaining members of Monty Python, as well as Graham Chapman's brother, sister-in-law, and longtime partner David Sherlock, tell the history of Monty Python in their own words. There are a lot of contradictions; no one can seem to remember who actually picked "The Liberty Bell March" as the theme, for example, and some things have become so legendary that one gets the feeling that everyone is telling the version that makes the best story (case in point: everyone loves to tell the story that Graham Chapman invited his fiancee to the party where he announced he was gay, but according to David Sherlock, she wasn't actually his fiancee anymore at that point. What's true? Who knows.) You get to learn a lot about their personalities and their working relationships, which is always interesting, even if it means finding out that John Cleese is kind of a git. Good stuff for fans of Monty Python, probably utterly boring for anyone else (although there's lots of great pictures of Terry Gilliam's cartoon work).