My late Monty Python co-star is speaking to me beyond the grave – there’s a giveaway sign it’s him, reveals John Cleese
JOHN Cleese claims he still communicates with his Monty Python co-star Graham Chapman — who died 35 years ago.
Cleese, 84, told how he hired a psychic to “explore his consciousness” then says his dead pal got in touch.
Chapman, who played the lead in Python movie Life of Brian, referred to stuff which the medium could not have known about, according to Cleese.
He recalled: “She said, ‘Who’s Graham?’. I said, ‘Is he Graham Chapman?’. She says, ‘He’s going on about a pipe’. I said, ‘Yes. He always smoked a pipe’.
“Then she said, ‘He’s rolling up his trouser leg’. And I said, ‘Yes, that’s a sketch we did about the Freemasons’. I know she didn’t see it. It was broadcast once or twice. She said, ‘He’s waving a parrot at you’.”
That was a reference to their dead parrot sketch. But on his next visit she said he was waving a monkey’s striped tail.
Cleese claims it was a ring-tailed lemur named after him.
He went on: “It’s called ‘Cleese’s woolly lemur’. There’s no way she would have known that.”
Graham died of cancer in 1989 aged 48.
Cleese told the Club Random podcast scientists hate and dismiss paranormal mysteries “because they can’t explain it”.