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Michael Neudecker
When cancer ripped Graham Chapman out of life early in 1989, at 48, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the others stood at the funeral singing a song. Idle rocked his head a little and began to sing, as can be seen in the final scene of the film “The Life of Brian”, and the others joined in, they sang and whistled “Always look on the bright side.” of life “. On the video of the funeral, you can see Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam smiling deeply as they sing, the supposedly cool John Cleese has wet eyes. How else would they, the great comedians of the Monty Python group, who were already legendary back then, have said goodbye to one of their own than with the motto that they had always followed so consistently: Always look at the cheerful side of life, take really everything with a sense of humor. Your own crucifixion too.