John Cleese

‘Comedy is much more important than I thought’: John Cleese on the press, his new talk show and the power of Fawlty Towers

4 November 2023 9:00 am

John Cleese enjoys tough questions. He’s currently touring America with An Evening with the Late John Cleese, and a substantial…

John Cleese’s cancel culture hypocrisy

17 December 2021 5:40 am

‘Always look on the bright side of life’ sang Monty Python. But it seems that for at least one of the…

Why stop at destroying statues?

20 June 2020 9:00 am

The actor John Cleese has been wondering if we should destroy Greek statues because Greeks believed ‘a cultured society was…

Common sense is the real generation gap – just ask John Cleese

15 June 2019 9:00 am

As I write these words, I regret to inform you, John Cleese is on his way to being cancelled. Now…

The dead iPad Sketch

31 January 2015 9:00 am

My iPad is dead, that’s what’s wrong with it. The plumage don’t enter into it. But since the blasted thing…

In which James Delingpole gets down with the kids, finds they’re sex-obsessed…

26 July 2014 9:00 am

If there’s one thing everyone knows about BBC comedy it’s that it’s going downhill. According to Danny Cohen, now Director…

The harrowing, inspiring life of Andrew Sachs

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Comedians always like to claim that they started making jokes after childhoods made harsh by poverty; that at a formative…