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
mistake two safety
Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.
team speak-english two
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.
editing years two
Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.
buy good people producing wine
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.
wrote
At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
absolutely anyone appeal experts exquisite ought wines
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.
hotel run trying
Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,
complete exactly
It's exactly the same territory, and it's a complete coincidence.
catchy football hearing hopefully near
It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.
age bond fantasy nice
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.
almost behaves course man obama sane saying time
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.
people trying
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.
contact four room stay together vaguely
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.