John Cleese





John Cleese

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October 27, 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, The United Kingdom

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John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and singer.

Cleese is probably best known for his various roles in the British comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus, his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and his various roles in the British comedy The Frost Report. He also played the role of Archie Leach in the American / British comedy film A Fish Called Wanda.


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You may have read in the news that the Norwegians recently attempted to trap me by paying the Icelanders to burn parts of their country in order to spread a cloud of airborne debris across Europe, thus closing all the airports. It took me a while to get to the bottom of it, but eventually I worked out that the main aim was to keep me in Norway and prevent me from travelling back to Britain. The...

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The Complete Fawlty Towers
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions
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Families and How to Survive...
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A Fish Called Wanda: The Sc...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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The Golden Skits of Wing-Co...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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Ethel the Aardvark Goes Qua...
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1967
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A Pocketful of Python: Vol. 2
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2 [2 ...
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4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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The Strange Case of the End...
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1977
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Fawlty Towers 3
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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John Cleese at the Beeb
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”
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“And now for something completely different . . . ”
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“He who laughs most, learns best”
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