An extraordinarily funny book

Of course you know this, but the late Grahame Chapman was one of the Monty Python team, and is widely regarded as its most eccentric of all. This is his autobiography, more or less, and it's still one of the funniest books I've ever read. It's as anarchic as he clearly was himself, it's often startlingly angry, and just as often (as just as startlingly) extremely touching.

As well as being phenomenally funny and a gifted actor (just remember "Brian"), Chapman was gay and an alcoholic. Both of which led inevitably to various forms of friction. (Some of them quite fun.) He doesn't hold back on any of it, and you get the feeling he wasn't the easiest man to live with. But you also get the overwhelming sense of an incredibly intelligent, caring, hysterically funny, and really very sensible human being. A book that brings on tears for all sorts of reasons.