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
failing envious britain
The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
jail who-your-friends-are want
If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.
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.
love-life holy-grail sides
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
friendly television actors
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
wanted
What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.
bananas
How to defend yourself against a banana
fake-people acting very-good
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
despair brian laura
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
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.
fun ideas taste
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
funny sarcastic years
years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
funny husband years
Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.
funny sarcastic should-have
A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.