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John Cleese

Also known as John Marwood Cleese

English comedian and actor (born 1939)

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John Cleese is an English comedian and actor born in 1939 who became famous for his work in comedy and entertainment. He is notable for his contributions to the comedy and acting fields throughout his career.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1939
Works: 60

Top works

Pythons' Autobiography by the Pythons
Fierce Creatures
Life, and how to survive it
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1939-10-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3,363
Total plays: 19,632

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
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Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
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Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,190x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x

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Quotes

“Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance.”
“If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.”
“Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.”
“If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.”
“He who laughs most, learns best.”
“I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.”

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Official website

Blog | John Cleese

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Official website: www.johncleese.com
Image: John Cleese Photo Op GalaxyCon San Jose 2024.jpg

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Commons category: John Cleese
date of birth: 1939-10-27
Commons gallery: John Cleese
start of work period: 1961-00-00
name in native language: John Cleese
social media followers: 5700197

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Article

John Marwood Cleese (/ˈkliːz/ KLEEZ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983).

Cleese and his first wife Connie Booth cowrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975—79), in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, which earned him the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2000, the show topped the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, and in a 2001 Channel 4 poll, Basil was ranked second on its list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.