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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Laughter is a force for democracy.
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I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.
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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
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Laughter is the best creative medicine.
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
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There's so many good people producing wine now, ... It's just amazing. There's so much on the shelves. You don't have to go buy those overpriced wines.
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At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like, ... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
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Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,
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It's exactly the same territory, and it's a complete coincidence.
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It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.
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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.
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.