A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

John Cleese and Graham Chapman in one of the funniest sketches ever made. You'll absolutely crease at their faces! | British Comedy Classics

I figure because we've now all been quarantined for so long and are probably irritating those we're stuck with, I should teach you the art of irritating. With a little skill and tact we can irritate people without bringing them to anger, and there's plenty of that in the world today we don't need any more of it. As demonstrated in my 1968 television special 'How to Irritate People.' | John Cleese

More on the creative process... | John Cleese

Has this ever happened to you? #FawltyTowers | John Cleese

Here are some Fawlty Towers bloopers and outtakes I hope you enjoy! | John Cleese

My favourite Fawlty Towers moment, in honor of the show’s 47th Anniversary this week. At the end of the Duck episode, Basil finally presents the covered dish to the diners, lifts the lid off, realises it’s not the duck, puts the lid on immediately….then takes it off again and searches in the mousse, in case the duck is somewhere inside. I can’t remember whether this was in the original script, or whether we invented it on the night, but I love Basil’s refusal to give up even when things are not