Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has branded BBC comedy executives “stupid” and “clowns” after he was left frustrated by an ideas meeting with the broadcaster. The 85-year-old actor who starred as Basil ...

John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers The Play arrived in Southampton’s Mayflower this week. Bringing nostalgia, and the inevitable farce-driven chaos that always follows the legendary Basil as he deals with ...

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Fawlty Towers stage show books into Cornwall Playhouse for April run.

John Cleese has said his stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Cleese rages that British people ‘deserve better than the BBC’ as he slams comedy bosses John Cleese has launched another ...

Actor John Cleese - who played the sarcastic, ill-tempered hotel owner in the Fawlty Towers sitcom - has said nobody noticed the "terrible, terrible joke" he wrote in reference to Wales in one of the ...

A titan of British television has passed away, and the remaining greats are paying their respects. While Sybil and Basil hardly had what anyone would describe as an affectionate marriage over the two ...