... a good seat – doors open at 5pm. John Cleese is in town! He’s here for a performance tonight at the ... For some background about the show, I recommend this New York Magazine interview with John Cleese from a few weeks ago : Exclusive: John ... stay tuned to this blog later this week for weekend events, and a John Cleese related giveaway! Related posts:November 1-6: Horse Brass Pub turns 33 ...

... went off to fight in WWI. A good thing, to be sure. Who would believe a comic actor by the name of John Cheese? And if he did have that name, would he have dared emphasize it in his work? The world might have lost the Cheese ... , a member of the pantheon of comedy. So it's ironic on several levels that John Cleese is himself lactose intolerant, as revealed in this interview with Kerry Lengel of ...

... a very personal and important aspect to any good product or process, and other peoples' ideas on how you're supposed to be creative bore the shit out of me. Except John Cleese. Because he's a goddamn genius, and no one can argue about it. But it's not because I respect the man as a writer and performer that I feel this particular talk, sent ...

What truly inspired me was to become aware (again) of the fact that we have no clue where ideas come from. The only thing we can do to increase creativity is to create situations where creativity can ‘flow’. John Cleese says that in order to reach this ‘flow’ you need to create boundaries of space and boundaries of time. LINK

Just came across this fascinating party broadcast on behalf of the SDP / Liberal Alliance from, I believe, 1985. John Cleese explains the need for proportional representation. I think it's rather good. The quality of recording is not top notch but it's rather well made for it's time.

... a couple of bits that I found particularly interesting. First, before working with the rest of the Pythons, John Cleese and Graham Chapman did a show with Marty Feldman; it was Feldman’ ... ; she was born (IIRC) 1899, and died in 2002. She suffered from depression, and John would call and hear about it the things that were getting her down (she was an omniphobe, he told us) and finally one time ...