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"Terry Jones has said he was fascinated by his late fellow Monty Python member Graham Chapman. Jones has lent his voice to the animated A Liar&amp;#039;s Autobiography, which traces the late Chapman&amp;#039;s career and his journey to come out as gay to his friends and family.   In an interview with The AP, Jones opened up about his long friendship and legendary comedy partnership with Chapman. &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t take my eyes off Graham, because he looked like he&amp;#039;d just walked on off the street, and what was he doing on stage,&amp;quot; Jones recalled of seeing Chapman perform for the very first time. He continued: &amp;quot;[Chapman&amp;#039;s co-stars] John Cleese and Bill Oddie were being funny on stage. Graham was not being funny. He was being serious, and that&amp;#039;s why I think he worked so well as King Arthur [in Monty Python and the Holy Grail] and Brian [in Monty Python&amp;#039;s Life of Brian].  &amp;quot;Because John wanted to do Brian, wanted to play Brian, and we persuaded him out of it. Because Graham was, he&amp;#039;s just the rock around which everybody else is doing funny performances.&amp;quot;  Jones joked that all these years later, he still can&amp;#039;t get over what &amp;quot;an odd person [Chapman] was&amp;quot;. Chapman died in October 1989 after a long battle with cancer. Last week, Jones suggested that a divide always existed within Monty Python when the troupe wrote sketches and films. The animated film A Liar&amp;#039;s Autobiography is now playing in US cinemas. Watch a trailer below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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