John Cleese

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born

October 27, 1939

gender

male

place of birth

Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

website

http://www.thejohncleese.com/

genre

Humor

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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.

books by John Cleese

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avg rating: 4.29 | 45 ratings | 25 distinct works

	The Complete Fawlty Towers (Paperback) by John Cleese avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 1989 4 editions	my rating:
	Superman: True Brit (Graphic Novels) by Kim Howard Johnson, John Cleese avg rating 2.81 — 21 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Families and How to Survive Them (Paperback) by Robin Skynner, John Cleese avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published 1984	my rating:
	A Fish Called Wanda: The Screenplay (Applause Screenplay Series) by John Cleese avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	The Pythons (Hardcover) by Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2003 2 editions	my rating:
	The Human Face (Hardcover) by Brian Bates, John Cleese avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	Superman: True Brit (Superman, DC Comics) by Kim Howard Johnson, John Cleese, John Byrne avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book (Hardcover) by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1994	my rating:
	ethel the aardvark goes quantity surveying by John Cleese avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1971	my rating:
	Families and How to Survive Them (Cedar Books) by Robin Skynner, John Cleese avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1993	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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"He who laughs most, learns best"
— John Cleese

tags: learning

3 people liked it

"And now for something completely different . . . "
— John Cleese

tags: british, humour

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