Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman FROM THE PUBLISHER
'O.J.R.I.L. (Old Jokes and Ridiculously Irrelevant Links): The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman' holds the distinction of being the only book ever published in the entire history of Western civilization with this title. (Although 'O.J.R.I.L.: The Completely Incomplete Graham Greene' came frighteningly close.) As if this great feat were not enough, this book also comprises a new collection of four unpublished, (and mostly) unproduced scripts by the late Graham Chapman of the legendary Monty Python's Flying Circus troupe.
The scripts include the much-rumored, but never produced, 1974 American TV special, 'Our Show For Ringo Starr', co-written with Douglas Adams. 'Jake's Journey', a TV sitcom filmed but never released, that was commissioned for CBS-TV. (It involves the misadventures of an American teenager in London and is very loosely based on 'A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur'.) 'The Concrete Inspector' was written as a half-hour short-feature, and 'Tonight: VD' is a brief sketch written shortly before Graham Chapman's death in 1989. ("Must we all be so juvenile? It's only two letters, for God's sake.")
These scripts, flagrantly pinched from the bottom sock drawer of The Graham Chapman Archives, have been fragrantly bleached and flatulently edited for publication by Jim Yoakum, Director of the Archives who lives in Atlanta. Also included (at immense cost to us and involving the tragic death of 14 Peruvian coal miners) are rare, never-before-published, photos; background and trivia on the creation of the scripts; a (fairly) complete bibliography and filmography of Graham Chapman's work and some really interesting and extremely well-typed (congratulations Mrs Beasley!) information about the Archives itself.
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