John Cleese

Avoid the therapy, and you'll be laughing

John Cleese is living proof that the pursuit of happiness can have a miserable outcome.

John Cleese show gets lukewarm critical reaction

The opening night of comic actor John Cleese's first UK tour has been met with lukewarm reviews by critics.

John Cleese: Unforgettable comedy moments

The Monty Python comic's career highlights, from Basil Fawlty to Bond.

John Cleese's statuesque girlfriend is turned to bronze

Wiry, long-legged and with a skin tone that was almost tangerine - she could have been a footballer's wife. But in fact it is John Cleese's beau of 18 months Jennifer Wade.

John Cleese interview

The Fawlty Towers actor on grasping ex-wives, self-centred mothers and why he's happy he's 'never grown up'.

John Cleese lavishes gifts on woman tipped to be wife 4

A fool for love? After claiming his £12.5m divorce left him penniless, John Cleese is lavishing expensive gifts on the woman tipped to be wife number four.

This very daft yarn about a British zoo reunites the cast of A Fish Called Wanda - though it is not a sequel - and also stars John Cleese. He plays an eccentric manager who, in the face of being replaced by a US hotshot (Jamie Lee Curtis), decides the zoo should only keep dangerous animals. Kevin Kline co-stars in two roles.

Lord Cleese of Fawlty Towers: Why he declined a peerage

John Cleese, the actor and comedian, has revealed that he turned down the opportunity to take a seat in the House of Lords.

John Cleese: 'Divorce cost me $65m'

John Cleese has revealed that his most recent divorce has cost him a total of $65m (£40m).

Surest way to kill comedy is pretend we're all the same

Jim Davidson, the unacceptable face of British comedy, is on a truth-and-reconciliation tour with a play he has written in which he co-stars with the black comedian Matt Blaize. Publicising it, he has apologised for any offence he may have caused in the past. John Cleese has recently revealed problems in America he had with a routine in which he tells a joke about the English, Germans, Australians and Americans before turning, to the embarrassment of most audiences, to Mexicans. The presenter of Top Gear, on the other hand, can cheerfully make nasty, unfunny Mexican jokes.