A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

Don’t miss Not Dead Yet! – John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50! Celebrate 50 years of Monty Python and the Holy Grail with comedy legend John Cleese, live in Daytona Beach at the Peabody Auditorium on Sep 28! 🎟 Get tickets now online at www.PeabodyAuditorium.org, www.AXS.com or in person at the Peabody Box Office. | Peabody Auditorium

Has this ever happened to you? #FawltyTowers | John Cleese

Here are some Fawlty Towers bloopers and outtakes I hope you enjoy! | John Cleese

My favourite Fawlty Towers moment, in honor of the show’s 47th Anniversary this week. At the end of the Duck episode, Basil finally presents the covered dish to the diners, lifts the lid off, realises it’s not the duck, puts the lid on immediately….then takes it off again and searches in the mousse, in case the duck is somewhere inside. I can’t remember whether this was in the original script, or whether we invented it on the night, but I love Basil’s refusal to give up even when things are not