Talk:Gorge of Eternal Peril

...this rocks my sox! (you poor thing)

Graham Chapman "citation needed" tag

This is one of those odd cases where the actor himself publicly announced this upon many occasions, but finding a printed source is evidently not so easy; in the mid-1980's, Graham went on a one-man "speaking tour" in the United States, where he sat on stage and recounted various stories, and the telling of the Bridge of Death scene was one of the highlights of his "lecture" (which I attended at the University of Kansas). He was quite explicit in his description of how terrible the hangover was, and how miserable it was wearing chain mail and being soaked to the skin and freezing cold AND hung over, trying to recite his lines and stand patiently without getting violently ill (as I recall, a wisecrack about the name "Gorge of Eternal Peril" was made at this point, not surprisingly). He emphasized it as the "punch line" was that the filming of this scene was the precise moment when he decided to end what had been several years of increasingly problematic alcohol abuse (though he phrased it a little bit more colorfully), and how his swearing off booze at that moment was probably the only thing that made it possible for him to go through with the film. Given that this same speech was given multiple times at venues throughout the US and elsewhere, surely there must be a transcript somewhere, or an autobiography, in which this appears. Dyanega 20:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)