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
people age world
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
television world bad-in-the-world
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
insane world way
The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
funny sarcastic world
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
hotel run trying
Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,
laughing seen suddenly time
I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than anyone.
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.
wrote
At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
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.
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.
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.
interest relationship supremely
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.
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.