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Is John Cleese right that the ‘literal minded’ have killed comedy?

3 May 2024

6:16 PM

3 May 2024

6:16 PM

John Cleese appeared in the West End this week. ‘I’ve got vertigo,’ he said as he walked on stage at the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue. ‘I cannot get rid of it. So I’m behaving as if I’m 184 not 84.’ He was hosting a press conference for Fawlty Towers: The Play which opens this Saturday night.

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