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John Cleese

May 2024

  • Helen Lederer, John Cleese and Alexei Sayle.

    ‘This is a ticking time bomb’: why are so many entertainers forced to work past retirement age?

  • Adam Jackson-Smith as Basil, Anna-Jane Casey as Sybil and Victoria Fox as Polly in Fawlty Towers.

    Fawlty Towers review – comedy history repeats itself as stage farce

  • The sculptor Tony Cragg at his exhibition at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.

    Brief letters
    Goodbye to gallery audio guides at last

  • John Cleese

    John Cleese cut N-word from Fawlty Towers revival because people ‘don’t understand irony’

April 2024

  • John Cleese sits in an armchair

    Secret to eternal youth? John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

    Therapy has remarkable medical potential but experts say private clinics making far-reaching claims operate in regulatory grey zone

February 2024

  • Nicholas Lyndhurst, David Jason and Lennard Pearce in Only Fools and Horses, from 1982.

    ‘It’s almost like karaoke’: classic UK TV sitcoms transfer to stage – and thrill the superfans

    Fawlty Towers, The Fast Show, Only Fools and Horses … the vogue for screen-to-stage shows taps into our need for nostalgia
  • Brian Logan

    Don’t mention the war … and the rest: the trouble with bringing back Fawlty Towers

    Brian Logan
    Stage revivals of the 70s sitcom and The Fast Show have enough nostalgia value to delight fans. Less certain is what will happen to their more problematic material
  • The cast of Fawlty Towers (left to right): Hemi Yeroham, Victoria Fox, Adam Jackson-Fox and Anna-Jane Casey.

    John Cleese brings Fawlty Towers stage show to the West End

    Theatrical adaptation of the sitcom, opening at the Apollo theatre in May, will combine three episodes including The Germans

November 2023

  • Tamara Lawrence, at a desk, and Bella Ramseym on the bottom bunk, looking to camera, in a prison cell in series two of Time.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Time; The Dinosaur Hour; All the Light We Cannot See; Roman Kemp: The Fight for Young Lives – review

    Jimmy McGovern’s prison drama shifts its focus without pulling its punches; Basil Fawlty is alive and well on GB News; and Roman Kemp proves a great campaigner for young people’s mental health

October 2023

  • John Cleese frowning on a TV chat show

    John Cleese surprised at GB News showcase for ‘serial liar’ Boris Johnson

  • An exam taking place at Wormwood Scrubs prison, London.

    Brief letters
    The history men in Frankland prison who got a GCSE pass

  • Marina Hyde

    Ofcom says GB news is not impartial, but how can that be true? It has every kind of wingnut going

    Marina Hyde
  • A man holds an emu killed in the 1932 war

    Australia’s emu war: John Cleese outrun in race to shoot movie of how flightless birds thwarted army’s machine guns

September 2023

  • Rally Road Racers

    Rally Road Racers review – animated-animal wacky races tries hard to be relatable

  • 80674-THE PALACE - Fortunato Cerlino John Cleese and Oliver Masucci Credits photo by M. Abramowska

    The Palace review – Roman Polanski’s tacky hotel farce is the worst party in town

February 2023

  • David Mitchell

    The return of Fawlty Towers can’t rival the Truss comeback farce

    David Mitchell
    The former prime minister’s lack of self-awareness would be comedy gold if her prose weren’t so desperately dull
  • The original Fawlty Towers cast (from left) Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs

    An anti-woke nightmare! Why the Fawlty Towers remake is a truly nauseating idea

    This is 2023 – not the 80s or 90s. Today’s John Cleese is tediously obsessed with cancel culture and most of the sitcom’s original cast aren’t involved. It’s destined to be terrible
  • John Cleese and Andrew Sachs in Fawlty Towers.

    Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to reboot series with daughter

    The much-loved comedy series is set to return with the father-daughter pairing taking on a boutique hotel

November 2022

  • Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry.

    Die Another Day at 20: is the reviled Bond movie worth a second look?

    The 20th film was ripe for ridicule – from Madonna’s awkward theme song to an invisible car – but it’s a smarter film than many think

October 2022

  • Viola Davis in "The Woman King." (Sony Pictures via AP)

    Weekend
    Actor Viola Davis, Marina Hyde on John Cleese, botox, burnout – podcast

    Marina Hyde on the plight of John Cleese, Zoe Williams asks: why has Britain fallen in love with Botox?, Gaby Hinsliff on the big British Burnout, and Ellen E Jones meets Oscar-winning actor, Violas Davis.
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