Not A Documentary, Not A Monty Python Film: Watch Two New Clips From ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’!

Just a month after the first trailer was released, we’ve got some new clips for the upcoming A Liar’s Autobiography!

The film is an adaptation of the 1980 book of the same name, which was a fictional recount of the life of Graham Chapman. Chapman recorded himself reading the memoir shortly before he died of cancer in 1989. This means that 23 years after the man died, he is being credited with a new film. All of the surviving Python members (with the exception of Eric Idle) are also attached to the project.

The movie looks hilarious, and I haven’t had the pleasure to read to book at this point, so I’m really looking forward to it.

Check out the clips below, and let us know what you think!

A Liar’s Autobiography will hit theatres and EPIX on November 2nd. Here’s a plot refresher if you need it:

Graham Chapman, probably best remembered as ‘the dead one from Monty Python’, writes and stars in the animated movie of his own life story, A Liar’s Autobiography. He was born, he went to Cambridge and met John Cleese, he smoked a pipe, he became a doctor, he became a Python, he decided he was gay (well, 70/30, according to a survey he did on himself), he got drunk a lot, he stopped being drunk, he made some films, he had some sex (actually, a lot), and moved to Los Angeles. Finally, he was whisked up into space by aliens (although that might have been in a film).

Although Chapman selfishly dropped dead in 1989, he had taken the trouble to record himself reading his book, A Liar’s Autobiography – and those recordings have now ingeniously been used to provide Chapman’s voice for the 3D animated feature of the same name. Fellow Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam also turn up, playing themselves and other characters, along with a few surprise guests.

Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, A Liar’s Autobiography is Chapman’s own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True, who knows? At  his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman “a freeloading bastard”. Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Palin, and Gilliam for the first time in 23 years, he is set to earn a new  title – the most prolific corpse since Elvis.