"He's a very naughty boy!"

[Gob]

Monty Python stars descended on a pub in north London to raise a glass to the life of a "very naughty boy".



Michael Palin and Terry Jones were celebrating fellow Python star Graham Chapman's life at the unveiling of a plaque to the comedian.

The memorial to the comic, who died from cancer in 1989, was held at his "manor" - the Angel Pub in Highgate.

The plaque references Mr Chapman's role in the Life of Brian and says that he "drank here often and copiously".

It was organised by the comic's family and friends after budget cuts forced English Heritage to abandon its official plaque.

Comedians and former colleagues Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland were also there to celebrate Mr Chapman.

Mr Palin said: "This was Graham's manor and Graham was a lovely guy.

"I spent many happy times with him, most of which I forget. This was where he was and we used to come up here to see him.

"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."

He said he believed Mr Chapman would have been pleased that so many of his friends had turned out to celebrate his life.

"I think he'd be suitably impressed that we all came along. He would have stroked his sideburns a bit as he was known to do. I think he would have approved."

Mr Cryer described Chapman as "one of my best mates".

"We did an awful lot of writing together, but also an awful lot of drinking together.

"I think the pub is the perfect place to put the plaque. Very Graham, very silly."

Mr Chapman's life and times will be the basis of the forthcoming film A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story Of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.

Based on his book, it stars the man himself through audio recordings.

The animated film brings the comic together with fellow Pythons Palin, Jones, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam for the first time in 23 years.

[Lord Jim]

The animated film brings the comic together with fellow Pythons Palin, Jones, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam for the first time in 23 years.

I imagine that Messrs Palin, Jones, Cleese and Gilliam are hoping not to be "brought together" with Mr. Chapman any time soon....

[The Hen]

Dear ol' Gra.

I shed a tear on his passing. It would be nice to have a pint at his haunt on one of our visits.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Chapman and Jones were the least talented of them all - probably wonderful in that old public school toasting a crumpet up the bum in front of the fire way (courtesy S. Fry).

The pair of them showed up on-stage at one of the first Wheeley Knebworth Festivals (1975) and were roundly booed off the stage by the same thousands of drugged-out freaks who'd five minutes before welcomed them with great rapture. I know because I was one of the latter. And they deserved it for the most awfully unfunny incoherent blatherings heard outside my immediate circle of friends

Meade

edited to add date and correct concert location which I spelled incorrectly anyway (Weeley) and I'm no longer convinced that Jones was there. Chapman definitely was.

[The Hen]

We're they very drunk, orvery, very, VERY drunk?

[Miles]

R.I.P. Mr. Chapman you provided me with many hours of wonderful humor. To have known you personaly would have been an honor.