John Cleese
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleeseis an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth27 October 1939
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I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than anyone.
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That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.
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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
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At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
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I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
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I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
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When you get to the age of 64 and you can't do one or two of the things that Bond does, it will be a nice little fantasy for me.
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We stay in contact vaguely because there are often little things to discuss, but I don't think we've been in a room together for four years.
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I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
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Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,