[ SECRET POST #6514 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6514 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I actually disagree with this, although I agree that Chapman was the most talented member of the group. Chapman was an absolute thunderous comedic genius, especially as a performer and also as a writer. But he was also pure chaos and I think that Cleese and Terry Jones, in particular, provided the necessary structure and scaffolding in which Chapman could operate at his best potential. Cleese being, from what I can tell, an insanely determined, organized and driven Type A egomaniac, and Terry Jones being intensely passionate and good at keeping everyone moving in the same direction together. And then Eric Idle and Michael Palin are just additional very funny guys, and Gilliam had a fun aesthetic.

I think this is often the way that a lot of really successful groups work - it's the melange that ultimately makes it successful, where you have different group members who are able to complement each others' strengths and remedy their weaknesses.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, it was a group effort. Chapman probably was the most charismatic, but removing any of them would have made a difference.

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[(Anonymous)]

the amount that Chapman was drunk or dugged out of his gourd is something MP fandom wishes to downplay. Cleese may be an asshole but he was an asshole who knew how to slap the bottle out of Chapman's hands long enough for him to be brilliant on cue.

I give Idle and Palin a huge amount of props for dealing with the chaos and coming out of it relatively stable. Cleese said at DragonCon that most of the best writing was genuinely a group effort among the four, but he and Chapman needed the other two to literally tell them if something was funny or not. They needed Eric doubled over in a chair to know that they could go ahead with an otherwise potentially unfunny sketch, and Eric was apparently never wrong.

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I agree.

[greghousesgf]

I think it was very largely a matter of chemistry and you couldn't really have Python without all of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Each member brought something valuable to the table. Replace one, and it wouldn't have been the same.