John Cleese has sworn off working with the BBC in the future. The 85-year-old comedy legend, who created the iconic sitcom Fawlty Towers for the broadcaster alongside his first wife and co-star Connie ...

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has branded BBC comedy executives “stupid” and “clowns” after he was left frustrated by an ideas meeting with the broadcaster. The 85-year-old actor who starred as Basil ...

Cleese told GB News, the right-leaning British news channel, that Shin Fawlty Towers will take Basil Fawlty from his hotel in Torquay to the Caribbean to run a small bijou hotel with his long-lost ...

Monty Python alum John Cleese blasted the BBC in an interview this week, declaring he would not allow his new Faulty Towers followup to air on the network because they’ve become too politically ...

John Cleese has revealed he “cannot figure out Theresa May”. The Fawlty Towers comedian and actor said he “doesn’t dislike” the Conservative Prime Minister, but considered her to be closely aligned to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite his prodigious movie career, Cleese has at least one regret — and it has nothing to do with that bitter public feud with ...

Actor, comedian and writer John Cleese, now 84 and long famed for his seminal comedic work on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “Fawlty Towers,” “Life of Brian,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and many other ...