Editing Graham Chapman (section)

== Legacy ==
{{quotebox|width=350px|quote="We would only do a reunion if Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent."|source=Eric Idle on speculation of a Monty Python reunion<ref>{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Logan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/19/monty-python-reunion-andy-kaufman |title=Monty Python drop heavy hints about reunion |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=19 November 2013 |access-date=17 May 2015}}</ref>}}

Following Chapman's death, reformations of the Pythons have included an urn said to contain his [[cremation|ashes]]. At the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn, brought onstage by a stiff English butler, was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the "ashes" on-stage. The apparently cremated remains were then removed with a [[Black & Decker DustBuster|DustBuster]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/63795.stm |title=And now for something completely different (and plenty that isn't) |work=BBC News  |date=9 March 1998 |access-date=1 July 2007}}</ref> Idle recalled meeting Sherlock, saying "I wish he [Chapman] was here now" and Sherlock replied "Oh, but he is. He's in my pocket!"{{sfn|Chapman|Yoakum|2006|p=54}}

Asteroid [[9617 Grahamchapman]], named in Chapman's honour, is one of six asteroids named after the Python members.

In 1997, Sherlock allowed Jim Yoakum to start the "Graham Chapman Archives". Later that year, the novel ''Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies'' was released. It is a semi-sequel to ''A Liar's Autobiography'', with Chapman's works compiled by Yoakum.<ref>{{cite book |first=Graham |last=Chapman |editor-first=Jim |editor-last=Yoakum |url=https://archive.org/details/grahamcrackersfu0000chap |url-access=registration |title=Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies |publisher=Career Press |location=Wayne, New Jersey |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-56414-334-1}}</ref> A compendium of writings, ''Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays & Gondolas'', also compiled and edited by Yoakum, was published in 2005 in association with the David Sherlock and John Tomiczek trust.{{sfn|Chapman|Yoakum|2006|p=iv}} In 2000, Chapman's play ''O Happy Day'' was performed by [[Dad's Garage Theatre Company]] in [[Atlanta]], Georgia, with the assistance of Cleese and Palin.{{sfn|McCall|2013|p=207}} In 2006, the album and [[DVD-Video|DVD]] release ''Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job'' came out, featuring a college lecture recorded in April 1988.<ref>{{cite web |first=Alan |last=Campbell |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/looks-like-another-brown-trouser-job-mw0000411429 |title=Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref>

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In June 2011, it was announced that Cleese, Jones, Gilliam and Palin would perform in a [[3D film|3D]]-animated version of Chapman's memoir ''A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI''.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Cieply |title=This May Be Something Completely Different |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/movies/graham-chapman-tribute-from-monty-python.html?ref=arts |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url-access=subscription |date=26 June 2011 |access-date=27 June 2011}}</ref> Co-director Jeff Simpson worked closely with Chapman's estate and the surviving Python members to "get this exactly right".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13939238 |title=Monty Python members reunite for Graham Chapman film |work=BBC News |date=28 June 2011 |access-date=15 May 2015}}</ref> The film, titled ''[[A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman]]'', was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012 and premiered in the UK the following month as part of the [[BFI London Film Festival]]. The voices of Cleese, Gilliam, Jones and Palin were spliced into commentary recorded by Chapman reading from his memoir and taped shortly before his death. The film's official trailer quoted Chapman as saying, "This is the best film I've been in since I died."<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Hartl |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/a-liars-autobiography-8212-the-untrue-story-of-monty-pythons-graham-chapman-the-title-says-it-all/ |title='A Liar's Autobiography — The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman': The title says it all |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=1 November 2012 |access-date=14 July 2018}}</ref>

In September 2012, a British Comedy Society [[blue plaque]] commemorating Chapman was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate by Jones, Palin, [[Barry Cryer]], [[Ray Davies]] and [[Carol Cleveland]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tara |last=Brady |url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/heritage/monty_python_graham_chapman_honoured_with_plaque_on_highgate_pub_1_1508901 |title=Monty Python Graham Chapman honoured with plaque on Highgate pub |newspaper=[[Ham & High|Hampstead & Highgate Express]] |date=7 September 2012 |access-date=14 July 2018 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044626/http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/heritage/monty_python_graham_chapman_honoured_with_plaque_on_highgate_pub_1_1508901 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Palin said, "Highgate was his patch, and he should be celebrated because he was a very good, brilliant, funny, nice, wise, kind man, who occasionally drank too much."<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Brown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/sep/06/monty-python-graham-chapman-plaque?newsfeed=true|title=Monty Python's Graham Chapman honoured with (unofficial) blue plaque |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=6 September 2012 |access-date=14 July 2018}}</ref>

In December 2014, a green plaque funded by [[Leicestershire County Council]] was placed on Chapman's former home in Burton Road, [[Melton Mowbray]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-30413224 |title=Plaque for Monty Python star Graham Chapman's former home |work=BBC News |date=10 December 2014 |access-date=15 May 2015}}</ref> A year later, a blue plaque at the entrance of Chapman's old school, [[King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray|King Edward VII School]], was reported as stolen but was later found inside the building.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.meltontimes.co.uk/whats-on/arts/monty-python-star-s-plaque-is-found-at-former-melton-school-1-7123927 |title=Monty Python star's plaque is found at former Melton school |newspaper=Melton Times |date=18 December 2015 |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000942/https://www.meltontimes.co.uk/whats-on/arts/monty-python-star-s-plaque-is-found-at-former-melton-school-1-7123927 |archive-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> In March 2017, the plaque was moved to Melton Mowbray town centre.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.meltontimes.co.uk/whats-on/arts/monty-python-star-s-plaque-finds-a-new-home-in-melton-1-7864755 |title=Monty Python star's plaque finds a new home in Melton |newspaper=Melton Times |date=14 March 2017 |access-date=4 February 2018}}</ref>
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