John Cleese previously turned down a CBE in the New Year's Honours. The actor achieved global fame as a co-founder of the ...

John Cleese has slammed the BBC's approach to comedy credit:Bang Showbiz John Cleese has vowed not to work with the BBC again. The 85-year-old comedian created the iconic sitcom Fawlty Towers for the ...

COMEDIAN John Cleese says the BBC has lost the art of developing comedy. The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers legend, 86, claims it is because the corporation is now run by bureaucrats. He told Nick ...

Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese has said he thinks the BBC doesn’t know how to “nurture comedy”, and that “there’s not much great comedy these days”, while reflecting on his time working with the ...

John Cleese has said comedy at the BBC is in a “parlous state” because the corporation is “run like a bureaucracy” and is made up of “committees”. The Fawlty Towers creator, 83, said TV executives now ...

According to industry website TV Blackbox, 1,489,000 tuned into MAFS while the John Cleese special only attracted 458,000 viewers. It comes after Seven heavily promoted the roast and brought in ...

'Literal minded' people have ruined comedy by failing to understand 'metaphor, irony and exaggeration' and missing the punchline, John Cleese has claimed. Speaking ahead of the launch of his stage ...

John Cleese says he has a problem with ‘the literal-minded’ responding to his comedy, as they don’t get the jokes. Speaking at he launch of the stage version of Fawlty Towers in London, the comic said ...

John Cleese is in talks to return to the BBC A new sitcom has been written specifically for the comedy star He had previously ruled out a return to television John Cleese could return to the BBC to ...

John Cleese says he worries about writing comedy now because he cannot get to grips with the modern world. The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star, 77, says a lot of contemporary life is lost on him.