Comedy legend John Cleese’s beloved sitcom gets a bold new incarnation: Fawlty Towers – The Play is set to embark on a major ...

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 ...

Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the ‘greatest British sitcom of all time’ (Radio Times) is now 'the funniest show in town' (Daily Express). Adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and ...

John Cleese has issued an “apology” for rebootingFawlty Towers with his daughter, Camilla Cleese. The actor told fans that the forthcoming series – which follows Basil discovering he has a secret ...

With multiple alimony-inspired money-making projects in need of promotion, Monty Python legend John Cleese recently appeared on ITV’s Lorraine in the U.K. Unfortunately, things got off to a rocky ...

Eleven million people are watching as Basil Fawlty collapses to the floor. We’re on the first-floor landing of the Torquay ...

It is 50 years since Fawlty Towers first appeared on our screens, with the farcical comedy series still enjoying a large and devoted fanbase. Audiences were introduced to John Cleese as rude hotel ...

NPR's David Greene talks to John Cleese, best known for being part of the Monty Python comedy troop, the TV series Fawlty Towers and the movie A Fish Called Wanda, about his virtual one-man show. For ...