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John Cleese, the comedy veteran star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, has made a surprising admission – that he once killed a man.

your holy grail.John Cleese recently unveiled dates for his ‘Not Dead Yet! John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50 tour.’ As of now, the 85-year-old sketch comedian has 17 shows lined up at theaters, halls and performing arts centers all over North America this fall.That includes a stop at New York City’s Town Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 15.At all shows, Cleese will screen the seminal 1975 film, take part in a moderated conversation and participate in an audience Q&A “where he’ll share behind the scenes stories, wit, and wisdom- assuming he remembers any of it” a press release reads.The very existence of this tour may come as a bit of a surprise to fans of the “Fawlty Towers” funnyman.

Shrek and his family are returning to the big screen after 16 years, with none other than Zendaya lending her vocal talents to the animated franchise. A glimpse at the upcoming movie comes with a teaser trailer, where Donkey humorously questions the magic mirror about who is the fairest, leading to a comical reveal that Shrek holds the title — thanks to some cheeky image editing by Pinocchio.The trailer also gives us a peek at Shrek's wife Fiona and their teenage daughter, voiced by Zendaya.The Challengers star, 28, couldn't resist sharing a nostalgic tweet from 2017 saying, "I watch Shrek too often in my adulthood," before adding the comment: "This aged well." Zendaya joins the star-studded cast of Shrek veterans, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and Mike Myers, who are reprising their iconic roles.

John Cleese, the 85-year-old British comedy icon, has suggested that he is kicking his Twitter/X habit after 18 years.

On 25 October 1979, the final episode of Fawlty Towers was broadcast, signalling the end of a much-loved sitcom.

The Chase's Paul Sinha has criticised Monty Python star John Cleese for what he considers the "worst speech I've ever seen". The Chase's 'The Sinnerman' recently spoke out about an address given by the Fawlty Towers legend at an awards ceremony.

Fawlty Towers is marking its 49th anniversary as one of Britain's most cherished sitcoms.

Monty Python brand.The pair had first had a war of words earlier this year after Idle said he’s still working aged 80 for financial reasons. “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster,” he wrote on social media.

John Cleese and Eric Idle are continuing to duke it out on social media.

Elon Musk. “Good bye, Twitter,” he wrote. “And thanks for dinner, Elon.”However, Cleese’s daughter Camilla appeared to poke fun at the suggestion, writing in response: “This won’t age well.

John Cleese is no fan of Donald Trump, but the Monty Python legend is now starting to question the former U.S. president’s mental acuity.

Halle Berry says her James Bond is Pierce Brosnan, her Die Another Day co-star.

Time Bandits series charts its own clever course through history.The original movie, written by Gilliam and Monty Python mate Michael Palin, and featuring Palin and John Cleese in supporting roles, served up an eccentric, ruefully sardonic take on myth and modern times.The titular bandits, having stolen God’s map of the universe, had decided to use the all-powerful tool to hopscotch through time, ransacking wealth from the likes of Napoleon, Robin Hood, and King Agamemnon.Along the way, the Bandits, portrayed by six talented men of short stature, crashed through a time portal into the present-day bedroom of 11-year-old history buff Kevin, who was whisked off on the adventure of his life.Not only a spirited, escapist fantasy aimed at kids, Gilliam’s movie was a visual marvel that took fearless turns into dark corners of greed, consumerism, loss, and abandonment. The film’s notoriously bleak ending boldly subverted the common fairy tale that as long as the kid hero makes it home safe from Oz, then all will be rainbows and sunshine.The ten-episode series dabbles in such darkness, but series creators Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi don’t let the show live there.This Time Bandits — following the same premise of hurtling through history searching for loot and treasure — leans much harder on the humor, and that’s where it shines.

Chaos ensued on This Morning when the cast from the Fawlty Towers stage show unexpectedly stormed the set, causing quite the stir on the ITV show. Presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary were caught off guard at the start of the episode on Friday 26 July as they were about to tease the day's lineup, only to be interrupted by an unplanned cameo.The live broadcast quickly turned into a farce as the Fawlty Towers actors burst in, throwing Alison and Dermot's introduction into turmoil.

Alex Ritman To a generation of Brits, Iain Morris may forever be known as half of the duo that created “The Inbetweeners,” the wildly rude sitcom about a group of mostly unpopular teenage boys that ran from 2008-2010 and was followed by two hugely successful films. But the multi-talented creative has been prolifically busy since then, reuniting some of the “The Inbetweeners” lead cast for BBC comedy series “White Gold,” creating another BBC comedy “First Team,” working on FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” helping write Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy “Next Goal Wins” and recently being tapped to direct Netflix rom-com feature “My Oxford Year.” For the last few years, he’s also been hard at work on “Time Bandits,” Apple TV+‘s small-screen reimagining of Terry Gilliam’s cult 1981 fantasy comedy about a young boy taken on an adventure through time with a band of thieves (mostly played by actors with dwarfism).

Fawlty Towers, the brainchild of comedy legend John Cleese and his former wife Connie Booth, first graced our TV screens back in 1975. Despite running for just 12 episodes, the sitcom, set in a chaotic hotel, propelled its cast to international fame, becoming a firm favourite among viewers. John's portrayal of the irritable hotelier Basil Fawlty, famed for his outbursts directed at the hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, solidified his place as a giant of British comedy, adding to his already stellar reputation from his Monty Python days and The Frost Report.

Eric Idle just announced that he’s embarking on a West Coast ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!’ tour this September.The musical one-man show — written and performed entirely by Idle — will feature never before seen sketches, original songs, jokes, stand-up comedy, humorous wisdom that comes with being a living legend and “exactly one fart joke.”He also promised “special guests, a Virtual Band and some of my favorite hitherto unseen clips,” on X, formerly known as Twitter.If seeing the beloved 81-year-old Tony and Grammy Award-winner (for “Spamalot”) live sounds like the show for you, tickets are available to be scooped up as soon as today.Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale is Friday, June 14.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.Idle isn’t the only Python member on the road this year.Fellow Flying Circus man John Cleese has a few shows lined up these next few months as well.You can find all of his tour dates here.After a revival on Broadway last year, “Spamalot” is still going strong at Appomattox, VA’s Wolfbane Performing Arts Center up until June 29.If you want to see the beloved show — complete with all the gags you know and love — tickets can be snagged here.In 2018, Idle dropped his best-selling autobiography “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography.”Over 292 pages, The Rutles member reflects on the meaning of his own life

Monty Python colleague “couldn’t have done without him”.Cleese had made the comment during Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show earlier this month, when he spoke about joining Palin for his 81st birthday.When Ball asked him how Palin is, Cleese joked: “Michael is just the same, sweet, kind, slightly boring man.”And now Palin has sent back his own barb during an appearance on ITV’s This Morning. “John is scintillating, we all know that.

Three members of Monty Python have reunited to celebrate Michael Palin‘s birthday.

Former EastEnders star Paul Nicholas looked unrecognisable as he prepares to play a very different role as the bumbling old Major in John Cleese’s stage adaptation of his BBC hit show Fawlty Towers. 79-year-old Paul shot to fame in the 1980s playing Vincent in the hit sitcom Just Good Friends, and was beloved by viewers for his curly blonde hair and cheeky sense of humour.

Fawlty Towers.Confirmation of the new incarnation of the beloved comedy came in February, when Cleese revealed he had written a two-hour play based on three episodes from the series – ‘The Hotel Inspector’, ‘The Germans’ and ‘Communication Problems’.The production will debut at London’s Apollo Theatre on May 15, nearly five decades after the first episode was filmed at the BBC Television Centre in December 1974. Tickets can be found here.And now, Cleese has said that the slurs from the original version of ‘The Germans’, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth, will be taken out of the new adaptation.In one scene of the original, the army veteran Major Gowen uses the N-word when referring to a Caribbean cricketer, and another racial slur to describe an Asian cricketer.At the press conference launching the stage show, Cleese said: “Those scenes where the Major used a couple of words you can’t use now, racial slurs they would come under, we took them out.”“There’s always a problem with comedy that you deal with the literal-minded,” he continued.

Monty Python film Life Of Brian as well as Fawlty Towers in the works. He is also working on a musical version of A Fish Called Wanda, and recently hosted a programme on GB News called The Dinosaur Hour.In a forthcoming interview with SagaMagazine, Cleese puts the costly end to his third marriage to Alyce Faye Eichelberger, an American psychotherapist, as one of the main reasons he is working so hard late in his life.The couple split in 2008 after 16 years of marriage.