Comedy legend John Cleese is bringing Monty Python to Jacksonville! Celebrate 50 years of the Holy Grail with a Q&A featuring John Cleese himself. | The Florida Theatre

FULL INTERVIEW: Monty Python's John Cleese to FIRE: Cancel culture is "totalitarian!" That's what the comedy legend told FIRE's Greg Lukianoff in a recent conversation where the two friends discussed everything from comedy and cancel culture to the religious controversy surrounding 1979's Life of Brian. The Fawlty Towers creator also said, "It's not just protest. It’s trying to get people fired. I don’t mind people protesting; that’s fine. But if you set out to get someone fired … that’s very to

Fawlty Towers premiered 50 years ago today on the BBC. Half a century later, it still makes me laugh. This is my favorite scene, how many of you have seen it before? 🛎️😤💥🚗 #fawltytowers #ukcomedy #bbc | John Cleese

Back in 1977, John Cleese spoke to Read All About It on the writing of the classic sitcom, Fawlty Towers. | BBC Archive

British comedian John Cleese on how he created the character of Basil Fawlty from the classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979). Cleese reveals that Fawlty - an eccentric, chronically uptight, hotelier - was inspired by a real-life hotel manager he encountered in Torquay, England called Mr Sinclair. See the funniest, most splendiferous and bizarre moments on a show that had five million Aussies a week turning on their TV sets in the 1970s and 80s. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curat