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British comedian, actor, writer and film producer, born october 27, 1939 in westonsupermare, somerset, england. John cleese stars in new specsavers ad as basil fawlty. John cleese and eric idle, founding members of monty python. John cleese, legendary comedian and writer, will visit the king center in melbourne november 5. John cleese has brought back his iconic basil fawlty character for the first time on screen since fawlty towers ended in 1979in a british commercial for optical retail chain specsavers. Find your local store and request an appointment online. A funny ad although one does wonder why john cleese and gabrielle drake. In the late 1960s, he cofounded monty python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show monty pythons flying circus. Basil fawlty returns to our screens news specsavers ie. John marwood cleese attended clifton college, bristol and ma, cambridge university 1963. For the first time in almost 40 years, comedy legend john cleese reprises his basil fawlty character in a new television commercial for specsavers. If it hadnt been for the commercials i wouldnt have been able to afford to spend so much. John cleese written by john cleese not enterprise media john cleese is not just the most spiritually advanced, intellectually gifted and professionally distinguished of the monty python group. This was a fundraiser for the zoos conservation and education projects.
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John cleese, legendary comedian and professor at large, shares his views on political correctness, the secret of creativity and the real meaning of life. View the list for me, the great problem growing up in england was that i had a very narrow concept of what god can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. John starred in most of the productions and brought humor into the dry world of corporate training. Since then it has run hundreds of adverts under the catchphrase, and earlier this year recruited john cleese. John cleese tv adverts piers morgan slams fawlty towers. View john perkins bsc hons aca mbas profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Iconic series the hilarious ad sees the hapless hotelier recreate one of the most memorable scenes from the iconic series with a shouldve gone to specsavers twist. On the set of the new specsavers advert, fawlty car, john cleese talks about his memories of fawlty towers and why he brought back basil.
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