Requesting news about Monty Python.

[icymist]

Our PBS stations have been playing a lot of retrospect of Monty Python lately. My friend tells me that this is because John Cleese recently died. This is news to me. Is this true? I hope it's a joke. I remember a short film saying 'John Cleese, 1903 - 2005! This would make the man in his seventies in the seventies!

[Richard D]

1. here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese

[thebigidea]

2. Spamalot, new DVD collections, new record reissues coming out

John Cleese isn't dead yet, and I can't bring myself to make the obvious joke.

[MnFats]

3. "I'm not dead." "Well, you soon will be."

"I feel happy! I think I'll go for a walk!"
"You're not fooling anyone, you know..."


Cleese is NOT dead.

[LiberalVoice]

5. haha!

that part is so funny! :P

[icymist]

4. Everyone....I was listening to others around me. I didn't think Cleese

was dead, but was unsure. thank you all for your input in setting me straight.

[KellyW]

6. Check IMDB

www.imdb.com is always the first stop when a question like this comes up.
These are his up comming films....

Shrek 3 (2007) (filming) (voice) .... King Harold
Charlotte's Web (2006) (post-production) (voice) .... Samuel
Complete Guide to Guys (2006) .... British Expert
... aka Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys (USA: complete title)
Man About Town (2006)

[OneBlueSky]

7. h'e not dead . . . he's just pining . . . n/t

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[bullimiami]

8. for the fjords?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. He is not yet an ex-Cleese.

n/t

[Junkdrawer]

10. Still waiting to join The Choir Invisible.. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Graham Chapman is dead (really)

He died of AIDS during the 1980s :-(

The rest of the Pythons are still alive and being silly in various places.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Not AIDS, Throat Cancer (tobacco)...

http://www.nndb.com/people/801/000028717/

On Edit:
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The rumors of him contracting AIDS are completely false. It must come from that infamous (and yet utterly stupid) notion that dead + homosexual = AIDS.

In about 1992, when the Python newsgroup (alt.fan.monty-python) first started up there was a long and tedious debate based on the theory Homosexual + Dead = AIDS (apparently nothing much has changed on that front). There were one or two people insistent that he did indeed die of AIDS, so someone in London went to the public records office, checked in the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, pulled out a copy of Graham Chapman's death certificate and posted it. (The point is, this comes from a valid source.)

The primary cause of death was cancer of the larynx (throat) with secondary cancers elsewhere, including the liver. Cancer of the liver is quite common (and fatal) but it is usually a sign of cancer elsewhere; the liver gets affected only in the final stages. Liver failure will eventually kill you if pneumonia doesn't get you first.

Death certificates in the UK are required by law to state both the primary and secondary causes of death - in the case of Graham, he died of pneumonia as a result of cancer of the larynx which had spread to many other sites, including the liver.
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http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pyth-faq.html