Spoken Gems » Monty Python http://spoken-gems.com Remarkable speeches, rhetorical masterpieces, impressive monologues Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:26:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Monty Python: Comedy Lecture http://spoken-gems.com/2008/08/29/monty-python-comedy-lecture/ http://spoken-gems.com/2008/08/29/monty-python-comedy-lecture/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:19:41 +0000 Michael http://private.bidrohi.de/project/speeches/?p=20 Who’d you want to give a lecture about comedy?

]]> http://spoken-gems.com/2008/08/29/monty-python-comedy-lecture/feed/ 0 John Cleese: Graham Chapman Memorial Service http://spoken-gems.com/2008/07/23/john-cleese-graham-chapman-memorial-service/ http://spoken-gems.com/2008/07/23/john-cleese-graham-chapman-memorial-service/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:27:41 +0000 Michael http://spoken-gems.com/2008/07/23/john-cleese-graham-chapman-memorial-service/ I can’t imagine how hard it must be to find the right words when a friend dies. But I’m sure, that John Cleese (and the other members of Monty Python) found the right words in the eulogy given in tribute to Graham Chapman.

But what is brave about this speech? Listen for yourself.

Transcript of the memorial service.

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