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Started by Glebe, February 13, 2009, 11:34:17 PM

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John Cleese

Johan Archibald Cheeseshop was born in 1908 in the town of West-Of-Superted, Wales. His father was a humble cheesemonger, and his mother was a humble female barrister. The young Cleese showed a keen interest in comedy as a child, putting on his own sketch revues in the local barn. It was here that he first caught the eye of a young Sir David Frost, who told him to come and see him when he grew up and he'd give him a career. At the age of 18, Cleese's parents scraped a pittance together to put him through Camford College, Exeter, where he excelled in Barrister Studies. A bout of fever nearly cost him his college education, but fortunately he was nursed back to help with the aid of a trainee doctor-Dr. Graham Chapman. It was to be a faithful meeting. Joining Chapman as a stage footlight, the two created such wacky comedy classics as A Clump Of Flumps and The Broken Toaster Sketch. Cleese next went to New York and worked as a barrister off Broadway, where he met and married a young Jamie Lee Curtis. Here, he ran into Chapman again, who suggested he join him in a musical comedy in was involved in. Cleese ditched everything and won a role alongside Chapman in 'Look At This Lot-They're Wacky As You Like!' It was during this time that Cleese had a fateful meeting with Terry Gilliam, who was animating and directing films for Disney but had got bored with his millionaire lifestyle and was planning to move to England to join in the comedy revolution. Returning to England, Cleese got in contact with Frost, who introduced him to a working class lad named Ronnie Corbett and an upper class fellow named Ronnie Barker. The trio were all set to become The Two Ronnies And One John, until a fateful meeting with Northern lad Michael Palin, Shropshire lad Terry Jones and the other lad Eric Idle. With Chapman and Gilliam along for the ride, TV classic Monty Python And The Flying Circus was born. And the rest is history.

The show was a big hit, but by series three, Cleese was feeling the pressure. On two bottles of gin a day and addicted to morphine, he had become a maniacal monster who used his height to bully and intimidate smaller comics. But a ray of hope came-he had gone off the rails and married a Phone Booth, but the union was to prove fruitful, for together they wrote and starred in the jewel in Cleese's comedy tiara-Faulty Tower. Cleese channelled his disturbing madness into the character of Basil, a neo-Nazi hotel owner who abused all those around him. Indeed, he went too far at times, causing serious injury to co-star Andrew Sachs and leaving rude massages on his Telex. Though Python movies followed, the success of 'FT' was such that the other Pythons bore a grudge against Cleese for many years. This ill feeling was too much for Cleese, and this coupled with the controversy over blasphemous comedy Monty Python And Life Of Brian saw him hitting the bottle again, at one point on a vat of raw whisky a day. It was during this low-point he made comedy classic Clockwise, but bounced back with the film A Fish Called Wanda, in which Kevin Kline played a kind of American version of Cleese.


However, in the late 80s, Cleese's mentalness took over again, and he was accused of murdering Chapman. Defending himself in court, he got off on a plea of temporary insanity, and when the judge ruled in favour of him, he treated the court to an impromptu rendition of the classic Parrot Sketch, much to the amusement of all assembled!

Latter years have seen Cleese make lacklustre appearances in every second rate TV and movie project going, but it was a fateful meeting with a shady theatrical agent that led him to create Spamalot, a musical version of the Grail myth. He selflessly gave this idea to Idle, perhaps, some say, in exchange for letting him appear in Splitting Hairs. These days, Cleese is still going strong, divorcing yet another wife, and cheerfully degrading his fellow Pythons-in fun, of course! And the rest is history.


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