The definitive, official, completely-different-to-anything-done-before Autobiography of The Pythons

Ronnie Barker is one of the best-loved and most celebrated entertainers in British television history. This book contains original contributions from people who have worked with and know him best. This biography contains interviews and personal illustrations from his own collection.

Over 30 years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy with an unheralded half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations. Here the surviving Pythons provide the story of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the genius who created it.

The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema's funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today.

Offers a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the creation of the Terry Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm", charting the highs and lows in the film's journey from script to screen. Told by Gilliam, and the author, who provides an on-set diary, this account shows how a film is made - or ruined - in Hollywood system.

This is his official biography written with the full cooperation of the Pythons and Chapman's partner David Sherlock - with full access to unseen pictures.