David Sherlock is a British writer who met Graham Chapman in Ibiza in 1966; the two became life partners and remained together until Chapman's death in 1989. In 1971, they took in John Tomiczek, a fourteen-year-old runaway from Liverpool, whom they raised together as their son; Tomiczek later became Chapman's business manager before his own death in 1992. Sherlock has said he was the direct inspiration for several Monty Python sketches, including "Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses," and he co-wrote Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography (1980), later sharing a writing credit on its 2012 animated film adaptation. He also contributed to the screenplay for the pirate comedy Yellowbeard (1983), which Chapman co-wrote and starred in. Sherlock has spoken and written about his decades-long partnership with Chapman, offering a rare firsthand account of one of British comedy's earliest openly gay relationships.
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