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John Cleese is annoyed by "woke" people who "think they have invented kindness". The 84-year-old Monty Python star has reflected on his time working on GB News show 'The Dinosaur Hour', which ran for 10 episodes last year and featured interviews with Stephen Fry, Caitlyn Jenner and more. He told The Oldie magazine: "I was allowed to say what I wanted and enjoyed that. On one programme, we had three academics and discussed this whole woke business. "What annoys me is how some people think they have invented kindness, but kindness has always been there. "Kindness is everywhere, and much of my co...
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John Cleese watches "very little comedy". The 84-year-old star has revived his iconic sitcom 'Fawlty Towers' for a new stage play in London but has lamented the lack of rib-tickling shows that are available for modern audiences. Speaking to BANG Showbiz and other media at the press launch for 'Fawlty Towers The Play' on Thursday (02.05.24), John said: "I'm watching very little comedy now. "I was reading something that was written about a month ago when somebody was working out the number of really funny comedies that were on our screens in 1991. "There was an extraordinary number, there was so...
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John Cleese had “suicidal thoughts” after the end of his third marriage. The 84-year-old comedy legend admitted to having a “breakdown” some time after he split from Alyce Faye Eichelberger, who he was ordered to pay almost £16 million when they divorced in 2008, and spent some time in “clinics” to help tackle his mental state. He told Saga magazine: “[The breakdown came] kind of after the full impact of the divorce came through. “I had to go into clinics for a bit. In a funny kind of way, when you have an experience like that I think you learn a lot from it. “It wasn’t pleasant. I was never a...
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John Cleese has claimed he was contacted by Graham Chapman from beyond the grave. The 84-year-old comedian has revealed he hired a psychic to help him "explore his consciousness" only to receive a message from his late Monty Python co-star, who died aged 48 from tonsil cancer in 1989. Appearing on Bill Maher's 'Club Random' podcast, he said: "She said, 'Who's Graham?' I said, 'Is he Graham Chapman?' She says, 'He's going on about a pipe.' I said, 'Yes. He always smoked a pipe.' " The psychic then started making references to iconic Python sketches, one of which Cleese is certain she had never ...
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Miriam Margolyes has her eyes set on Italy for retirement. The 82-year-old actress, who is best known for her role in the ‘Harry Potter’ series as Professor Sport, has houses in London, Kent, Australia and Italy, and lives away from her partner Heather Sutherland. During an episode of the ‘Loose Ends’ podcast for BBC Radio 4, Miriam told hosts Clive Anderson and George Egg: “I love travelling and meeting people and Italy is one of the countries of my heart, I want to retire there with Heather. “I’ve got a home in Clapham and I’ve had that since ’73. I feel at home wherever I am and I always bo...
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John Cleese is "not bothered about getting cancelled". The Monty Python star has warned the trend to boycott people with controversial opinions makes people "more literal-minded" and so it has got harder to be funny and while he is too "old" and established to worry about it, he admitted if he was just starting his career he'd be more hesitant about his writing. Asked if he could have written his famous lines today, he told the Sunday Times Culture magazine: “It’s a good question. "The trick with creativity is to understand that it is not a talent, it’s a frame of mind. "You have to get away f...
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Michael Palin received "very touching" and sincere reactions from his former Monty Python co-stars after his wife's death. The 80-year-old actor - who was part of the iconic comedy troupe alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones - has revealed while he and his surviving co-stars aren't in touch a lot, they did reach out after his beloved wife Helen died in May. Asked if he still talks to John, Eric and Terry, he told the Radio Times magazine: "No, we don't speak to each other very often. "There's no ex-Pythons WhatsApp group or anything. "But we are in to...
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John Cleese has "no intention" of cutting his famous Loretta scene from his 'Life of Brian' stage show. The 83-year-old actor is set to open a stage version of his 1979 comedy movie in London in 2024 and has dismissed reports that he had been forced to cut the scene which sees a man named Stan claim he "wants to be a woman" called Loretta and wishes to get pregnant, insisting that despite being "strongly advised" to do so in order to avoid causing offence to those who hold different views on gender, the scene will remain intact. He tweeted: "A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London...
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ABBA star Benny Andersson says John Cleese turned down the chance to write a book and musical with the pop group. The 76-year-old singer and his songwriting partner Bjorn Ulvaeus met Cleese whilst on a trip to Barbados in the late 1970s and approached him about collaborating on a stage show based around New Year's Eve celebrations. However, the Monty Python legend turned them down flat, but the trip to the Caribbean did produce the ABBA song 'Happy New Year', which featured on their 1980 album 'Super Trouper'. Speaking to Record Collector magazine, Benny recalled: “'Happy New Year' was written...
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John Cleese has joined GB News. The former Monty Python star is teaming up with comedian Andrew Doyle to present a show on the news channel and warned viewers to be prepared to be "shocked" when the programme starts next year as he's keen to shine a light on issues he claimed are widely "censored" by most outlets. While appearing on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, the 82-year-old comedian told journalist Amol Rajan of the show: “There’s a massive amount of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press. In my new show, I’ll be talking about a lot of it. You should be pr...
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