John Cleese

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

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http://www.thejohncleese.com/

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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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John Cleese's Blog

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Rescued from Norway

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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Books by John Cleese

Average rating: 4.11 · 2,220 ratings · 206 reviews · 61 distinct works

	The Complete Fawlty Towers by John Cleese, Connie Booth 4.41 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Families and How to Survive Them 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Fish Called Wanda: The Screenplay by John Cleese, Charles Crichton 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Skits of Wing-Commander Muriel Volestrangler, FRHS And Bar 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying by John Cleese, Graham Chapman 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1967	My rating:
	A Pocketful of Python: Vol. 2 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Fawlty Towers, Volume 2 [2 cassettes, BBC AUDIO COLLECTION] by John Cleese, Connie Booth 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It by John Cleese, Jack Hobbs, Joe McGrath 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	Fawlty Towers 3 by John Cleese, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs (Read by) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	John Cleese at the Beeb 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by John Cleese

“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.”
― John Cleese

tags: absurd

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“And now for something completely different . . . ”
― John Cleese

tags: british-humour

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“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

tags: learning

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