Minx

I am a huge fan of John Cleese. He was/is a genius/madman and I love him for it. I remember being really little and watching Monty Python's all the time with my big brother. To this day the term "tennis anyone?" conjures up images of that one dismembering skit! And the Pet Shop skit..."I wish to register a complaint" ....oh baby it kills me just thinking about it!

So let's hear some of your favorites!

Some of mine, other than the above....

The Cheese Shop
Funny Walk Institute
Lumberjack Song (classic)
...almost anything with him and Michael Palin and of course, he was very good in Fawlty Towers! Love that Manuel

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Halx

John Cleese is one of my 'Comedy Gods' - one of his more recent acts that I thought was great, though small, was in Rat Race. "Of course I can, I'm eccentric!"

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RubberSouls

John Cleese in my opinion, is one of the funniest people that ever lived

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mazak

loved him in faulty towers,a really funny guy!

Eiresol

Not so great in James Bond though.

spectre

Agreed, some of the best comedies of all time, he's had a part in.

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Jadey

Another John Cleese fan here. I'm a huge fan of the whole Monty Python Crew, but Cleese is my fav.

A Couple of my favorite skits;

The Art of Not Being Seen.
The Arguement Clinic (with Micheal Palin)


and I think everyone would probably agree that The Norwegian Blue skit and The Ministry of Silly Walks are just classics.

Gortexfogg

John Cleese has been halairious in a couple of non-Python movies. "A Fish Called Wanda" is one of my favorites.

maximusveritas

Yep, I've seen him in person and he's just as funny in real life as on the screen. One of the smartest guys I've met as well.

Tophat665

Gotta love "word Association Football"

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Tophat665

His recent screed on the Axis of Evil was riotous as well.

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fuelmyfire

When i was yonger (around the age i could recite the entire Monty Python and the Holy Grail script) i made a bet with one of my mothers friends that i could get John Cleeses autograph before her. i wrote him a letter, and he actually wrote me back a few months later with an autograph (it's framed on my wall).

by the way, i ended up winning the bet (although it took 2 years to collect my prize- $20)

i was/am a very happy "lad"

dankitti

The Norwegian Blue prefers keepin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!

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guthmund

John Cleese is the by far the funniest Python.

His credentials are too numerous to mention, but I especially enjoy A Fish called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, and the Life of Brian..

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education,
wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Reg is a genius.

From the series, I like the Old Lady Gangs.

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brandon11983

Cheese Shop and the Parrot skit are my faves.

Cleese: "its not much of a cheese shop, is it?"
Palin: "finest in England, sir."
Cleese: "how do you figure that?"
Palin: "well, it's so clean."

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Spinach_Indeed

John Cleese was the best straight forward actor of the Python's I believed. You can listen to him talk and part of you wants to take everything he says seriously, because he's so damn Sincere about it.

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richeee

I agree with Jadey! (and all of the above!)


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dankitti

TFP is actually paying homage to monty python, maybe without realizing it. the full MONTY! combine that with Python for The Full Monty Python, which would be naked snakes.

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Craven Morehead

Don't forget the Twit of the Year contest skit.

He's pining for the fjords.
My nipples erupt with pleasure.


BTW - the Pythons announced a reunion tour a few years ago. I never heard anymore about it, I assume it did not come off. Anyone know anything about it?

maximusveritas

Yeah, they couldn't all agree on doing the tour. I think Palin in particular didn't want to do it, so they just did a few BBC sketches in the end.

platypus

If you want a weekend in stitches, sit down to the entire Monty Python set on DVD. Follow that with the Fawlty Towers set. You will never look at the world in the same way.

And now for something more completely different...

I can't tell the difference between Whizzo butter and this dead crab.

Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Oh dear, it's a long job. You see parrot conversion ... Tell you what though, for free, terriers make lovely fish. I mean I could do that for you straight away. Legs off, fins on, stick a little pipe through the back of its neck so it can breathe, bit of gold paint, make good ...

Ladies and gentlemen, the World of History is proud to present the premiere of the Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of 'The Battle of Pearl Harbour'.

Course you don't get bloody wafers with it. Albatross!

Good morning. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but I'm afraid my walk has become rather sillier recently, and so it takes me rather longer to get to work.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - oh damn!

The BBC would like to apologize for the poor quality of the writing in that sketch. It is not BBC policy to get easy laughs with words like bum, knickers, botty or wee-wees.

Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. Say no more.

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krazykemist

Cleese is my hero.
Unfortunately it wasnt until junior high that I discovered the joys of Python. And all British wit for that matter.
Other than the main 3 Python movies my favorite is Live from the Hollywood Bowl.
This past week I actually watched both Harry Potter movies and was treated with the gift of Cleese.

Long live the Cleese!

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Daval

I so much prefer british comedy to north american, and john cleese is one of the reasons why.

Fawlty Towers is one of my all time favourites!

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Charlatan

John Cleese is a genius... but we all seem to know that already...

That said, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the other pythons... all very clever and funny in their own rights...

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3leggedfrog

Fierce Creatures is my all time faviorte with him in it.

great man

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Pheatius

Here here...John Cleese is indeed a true gem of England and the world. He should be "Sir John Cleese"...do I here a second?

platypus

I'm sure it will happen. Hell, they knighted Michael Caine.

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wondash

I recently listened to (not watched) the Holy Grail. My son was watching it in the back of our SUV while I drove. I've seen the movie umpteen times, and just hearing the dialog still cracked me up! Pure genius!

wondash

Here's a great Monty Python web site with most of the dialog to everything they ever did!

Monty Python's Flying Circus In Australia

~springrain

*laughing*... you have to be insane not to love John Cleese

"this parrot wouldn't plum if you put 4,000 volts through it...
it's bleeding demised
it's passed on
this parrot is no more
it has ceased to be
he has expired and gone to see his maker
its a stiff, bereft of life
it rests in peace
its run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible...
he is extinct in his entireity...
this... is an EX parrot!

Pyrate

John Cleese, after Jim Carrey, rules in comedy (acting comedy, not standup-in that field Dane Cook is king)

Fawlty Towers is all I really remember from him, but that alone was enogh to solidify my belief that he is among the best.

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jujueye

I played Monty Python's "Complete Waste of Time." Hilarious. And hearing the whole crew, with Cleese included, doing voiceovers was a hoot.

I remember hearing some of their albums from the seventies, too.

"Dennis Moore! Dennis Moore!
A yum dum dum dadee dum
Dennis Moore! Dennis Moore!
A yum dum dum dadee dum
He yum duddy dum
And dum dadee yum!
Mister Moore! Mister Moore! Mister Moore!"

And, just for fun, notice my sig...its from the same album that Dennis Moore is from! Yay!

mystmarimatt

John Cleese just rules, the sketch in monty python when he, as the teacher, teaches his students how to correctly make love to a woman. that just bowled me over

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cdwonderful

fawlty towers rules!

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