John Cleese
- 85 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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John Cleese backs Fawlty social distancing campaign
John Cleese is backing a new Basil Fawlty social-distancing campaign with the slogan "2 metres = 1 Basil Fawlty"
The List, 7th August 2020The Pythons skewered cancel culture 40 years ago
Forget Cleese's recent decline - the Pythons' great crusades against groupthink and frothing mobs seem more timely than ever.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 5th August 2020John Cleese, livestream from Cadogan Hall review
More of an erudite lecture than a show.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 3rd August 2020John Cleese: Why There Is No Hope review
In a global livestream, the former Python delivers alimony gags, a bit of PC-baiting - and an amusingly grumpy lecture on how nobody knows anything.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 3rd August 2020Review - John Cleese: Why There Is No Hope
Fascinating ideas, but they need teasing out.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 3rd August 2020John Cleese says children hardly recognise him
He may be a legend of comedy, famous for hits including Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda, yet John Cleese says that today's young people barely recognise him.
And the reason? The actor blames the BBC for failing to broadcast repeats of Monty Python in the past two decades.
Lucy Jones, Mail on Sunday, 1st August 2020John Cleese attacks 'ignorant' critics
"Instead of having 'critics' who can't themselves direct, write, act, sing, dance or claim any other kind of expertise, would we not get superior commentary from people who can? Why should artistic criticism from untalented people be preferred to that of outstandingly talented ones," he questioned, suggesting that performers were "less envious than critics", who are "astonishingly ignorant about process".
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 29th July 2020John Cleese: cancel culture takes the fun out of life
John Cleese does not have much time for political correctness or cancel culture, and as for the state of the world? It's completely hopeless, the former Monty Python star says.
Rollo Ross, Reuters, 24th July 2020Favourite film aged 12: Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Monty Python's chivalric sketch show served up epic amounts of daftness - and any adult reservations about it prove mere flesh wounds.
Alfie Packham, The Guardian, 23rd June 2020Why Fawlty Towers is still the best comedy of all time
We are supposed to laugh at, not with, the Basil Fawlty character in Fawlty Towers.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 16th June 2020