I'm so pleased to be old enough to have seen Mr Cleese on the telly etc when his work was brand new. Himself and his mates have cheered up a rather dismal world by making us forget it for a while. Especially Basil. 😊😎👍
One of the most real down to earth famous person you ever have seen! Everything he did or does puts a smile on your face and makes your day worth while no matter what deficit you took that day! Pure sunshine!!
Gotta love how John takes these awkward outrageous yet hilarious questions and takes. He really has his two feet steady on the ground, no hubris, no overclass, no "im better than this". Just humble and inviting personality. Love it.
The fact that he remembers what he thinks is wrong with his bits is a sign of perfection and we see it as part of the fun. John Cleese is amazing and nothing more fun than 'stodgy' British Humor, simply the best. no swearing, just timing, eye rolls and physical comedy at its finest! thankyou for all you have brought to the planet Mr. Cleese, rv
What a wonderful, wonderful interview. Two masters of their craft. And yes, while the funny bits were hilarious, the more serious parts of this conversation carried real weight. So good!
WHEN was this interview (talk) actually taking place? Seriously wonderful, and I ‚only‘ saw John Cleese as a rather miserable, disillusioned ‚old man‘ with Parkinson. Mind you, I‘m not British and although I own Fawlty Towers DVDs, it was rather because at some time I lived in TQ…. So glad to have seen this. Marvellous chat they had - much depth and at same time hilarious!
It is refreshing to hear about the real person he is and how his life's journey so far has shaped him. I can really relate to his comments about our skills and how it is important it is to enrich our lives by learning something new.
JOHN CLEESE is a great actor i have seen a lot of his movies and i have enjoyed them all so thank you john for your hard work and dedication to your work
The Life of Brian was the most honest respectful review of the Christian message I have ever seen. It was careful to point out Brian was NOT the Messiah, and so did his mum, he was a very, naughty, boy. It simply pointed out how ignorant and gullible people were and how easy it would have been to be a charlatan because of the desperate need people had to make sense of life.
Greetings from not only America but the American Midwest! Please know the Monty Python group has been dear to my heart since the 1970’s and fine tuned the sense of humor my father taught me on his knee as a child. While my father did not appreciate Monty Python in the 1970’s nearly as much as I did, one of my most cherished memories (as he is now deceased) will always be having had the privilege of watching him watching ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ on DVD for the first time around 2001. We had a ball - right down to the closing credits. And this in spite of the fact my mother ran off with an Englishman (no joke, she is currently living in Yorkshire) after 40 years of marriage (a complete surprise to us both). My father ‘got it’ about Monty Python, and a little more about me. What a fabulous bunch of coconuts -
Absolutely priceless and some of Cleese’s real world insights are fascinating, sitting here feeling bloody awful and this was better than any medicine the doc could prescribed, grew up around Python and Fawlty Towers great times awesome comedy and I won’t make any predictable remark couldn’t get away with that today, oops I just did! Lol thanks for sharing this 👍
My husband can recite all Monty Python films, Faulty Towers episodes and Black Adder series verbatim (you cannot mention missing socks in this house, because it will elicit a whole episode of Black Adder 🤣)
When I was a kid, from about 13, me and some brother friends of mine would watch through each episode of Monty Python and just wet ourselves, we knew it line by line. The movies just took it to another level. I adores the zany idiocy, because it fit so well with how my mind worked.
I watched his show while going to school in Great Britain and loved watching him and his co-stars! Lots of laughs at our home! One was from a Cadburys Hazelnut Bar that made us laugh so hard we had to go up to our rooms at the Hotel because we couldn’t stop, much like watching the Monty Python Show!
Just in time thank you for the artists of the world to show a different face, John Cleese and Monty Python, peter Sellers the Goons Great times to be a kid with a radio.
I awaited Monty's first show in the 1970s, courtesy Milwaukee, WI USA PBS. After first sketch, I said , "What t he'll is this?" Mr. Cleese then came on and said, "And now for something completely different." I instantly fell to the floor in spasms of belly laughter. Forever thankful, Tom.
Love this interview so funny I'm a old person and a big fan. My Dad was like him born when his parents were in their 40s an oops baby and his 2 siblings were already in their middle and late teens ( he was born in 1908). So i was raised by fokes from late 1800s mostly. A very different world.
It's hard to believe how utterly out of this world Monty Python comedy was when they first appeared in Canada in the early seventies. My friends either thought it was the most hilarious thing we have ever seen or they didn't understand what was so funny.
I have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy his works to the fullest. With such awesome talent how could anyone not see the obvious genius? How was that Mr. Cleese? That will be fifty P.
without him and the others, the world would be a much darker place...their work and their influence cannot be measured but without it all we would feel another emptiness besides the ones each of us have...I remember the first time I started to get lost in their very smart but so very silly world and how calming it was, how light and bearable all difficulties seemed for those moments...
My two brothers and sisters sat down to watch The Life of Brian one Saturday on Beta max I believe and we were in fits of laughter, Our mother who was widowed young and who raised us as strict Irish Roman Catholics came home from work and sat down to join in the fun, it took longer than it should’ve for the penny to drop.. it was when they dropped the great big rock on John Cleese in the blasphemy sketch, Mother declared this film is blasphemous and turned it off and then set about giving me a good hiding for bringing it into the house.. we were all to weak with laughter to even attempt escape 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@randelford5817 I got into it when it first aired in the UK and all my mates thought I was an idiot for liking it - they all preferred Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in, which I thought was rubbish! I first came across John Cleese in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - a brilliant radio series.
That was a complete joy, from beginning to end. Fascinating, funny, interesting, heart-warming and pure entertainment. I grew up watching Parky, and it's no coincidence that John Cleese has the initials JC. Thank you for posting this.
I don't know about the world but I grew up in England in the 1960s and I know I wouldn't have survived my childhood without a sense of humour. Back then it was Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies. The Pythons came later - wacky and wonderful.
Fun fact. The family name was Cheese. But when John Cleese's father was a young man he decided to have his last name legally changed to Cleese. Good move.
@@Rotebuehl1 Yes, it's true. Wikipedia: "His family's surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and used the name Cleese when he enlisted in the Army during the First World War; he changed it officially by deed poll in 1923."
Which makes me think that is why there was no cheese in the Cheese Shop sketch. Hmmmm.... (Zeph, don't get a swollen head. I made this point several months ago in another video.)
@@ownpetard8379 Yes, I've thought of this. There's also another Monty Python sketch that involves cheese. One can't help but suspect that Cleese's input was involved and that it sprang from him knowing that his family name was Cheese. Or perhaps the other writers knew of it and they were teasing him.
John Cleese is not only a marvelous actor, a terrific writer, a collection of amazing characters, and a first rate comedian, but a great HUMAN BEING. He is absolutely not full of himself, always finds an angle for self deprecation, and it seems, is nothing like the odd, rude, weird, and eccentric characters he plays. What a joy to see and hear him. Thanks, Scottie McClue and the Great John Cleese.
If there really was a hotel like Fawlty Towers it would be full booked until 4035. Obviously some of those who booked wouldn’t make it but at least they tried.
Even playing an old west sheriff in a western in 1985 (Silverado), he was so fun to watch, and funny too of course. I did the argument clinic in an amateur night (from memory) over 30 years ago.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PERHAPS THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE SEEN 😂 😂❤❤
How about including and honor Michael Parkinson's name somewhere in the description?
37:14 The proportion is called the Golden Mean. 1.618 to 1 is everywhere. I have used it in sculpture.
Wonderful!
Just stop shouting. We get your opinion without that. A turnoff, actually.
My favorite comedy shows of all time.
Why is John Cleese here? He has made my life bearable. Thank you John Cleese.
Great interview.
Thank You 😊 🙏
It's bloody marvelous when a great interviewer and a great guest interact
Absolutely 💯
I'm so pleased to be old enough to have seen Mr Cleese on the telly etc when his work was brand new. Himself and his mates have cheered up a rather dismal world by making us forget it for a while. Especially Basil. 😊😎👍
Absolutely 💯
@@ScottieMcClue me too!!!!!!
Me Too
@@Laconic-ws4bz Biggles, fetch the comfy chair!
😂@@5150cappie
One of the most real down to earth famous person you ever have seen!
Everything he did or does puts a smile on your face and makes your day worth while no matter what deficit you took that day!
Pure sunshine!!
Absolutely 💯
Such a great interview- both of them at the top of their form. Their obvious friendship really relaxed John and he was very open. Wonderful to watch!!
Thank You 😊 🙏
I'm a Brit boomer ... Monty Python shaped my humor ... thankfully ...
Thanks John .... you've made me laugh so many times.
Thank You 😊 🙏
Gotta love how John takes these awkward outrageous yet hilarious questions and takes.
He really has his two feet steady on the ground, no hubris, no overclass, no "im better than this". Just humble and inviting personality. Love it.
The fact that he remembers what he thinks is wrong with his bits is a sign of perfection and we see it as part of the fun. John Cleese is amazing and nothing more fun than 'stodgy' British Humor, simply the best. no swearing, just timing, eye rolls and physical comedy at its finest! thankyou for all you have brought to the planet Mr. Cleese, rv
Absolutely 💯
What a wonderful show. John Cleese is my all time favorite actor. Such a wonderful conversation!
This is like an Elixir. Thank you so much. Michael Parkinson just left us last year. 2023.
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I was lucky enough to have been in the audience for this episode. Amazed at two consummate professionals absolutely nailing it!
My whole life just flashed before my eyes.
Loved these guys - what talent they had.
What a wonderful, wonderful interview. Two masters of their craft. And yes, while the funny bits were hilarious, the more serious parts of this conversation carried real weight. So good!
Thank You 😊 🙏
WHEN was this interview (talk) actually taking place? Seriously wonderful, and I ‚only‘ saw John Cleese as a rather miserable, disillusioned ‚old man‘ with Parkinson. Mind you, I‘m not British and although I own Fawlty Towers DVDs, it was rather because at some time I lived in TQ…. So glad to have seen this. Marvellous chat they had - much depth and at same time hilarious!
One of the best parkinsons What a great comedy genius.Hese brilliant in a fish called wanda.
💯
Best male nude performance in a movie . And set the bar .
His self-awareness is impressive, to me. So able to reflect on himself and the perception immediately. Woahh.
It is refreshing to hear about the real person he is and how his life's journey so far has shaped him. I can really relate to his comments about our skills and how it is important it is to enrich our lives by learning something new.
JOHN CLEESE is a great actor i have seen a lot of his movies and i have enjoyed them all so thank you john for your hard work and dedication to your work
The Life of Brian was the most honest respectful review of the Christian message I have ever seen.
It was careful to point out Brian was NOT the Messiah, and so did his mum, he was a very, naughty, boy.
It simply pointed out how ignorant and gullible people were and how easy it would have been to be a charlatan because of the desperate need people had to make sense of life.
He's a comic genius just like black adder and the two Ronnie's.
Not only that he's a very good actor. ❤
I'm not the first person to say this. But when he thrashed the car.......
The interviewer is a class act himself...great host
I love that man. So heartwarming. 🧡 Greetings from Germany
Danke
Greetings from not only America but the American Midwest! Please know the Monty Python group has been dear to my heart since the 1970’s and fine tuned the sense of humor my father taught me on his knee as a child. While my father did not appreciate Monty Python in the 1970’s nearly as much as I did, one of my most cherished memories (as he is now deceased) will always be having had the privilege of watching him watching ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ on DVD for the first time around 2001. We had a ball - right down to the closing credits. And this in spite of the fact my mother ran off with an Englishman (no joke, she is currently living in Yorkshire) after 40 years of marriage (a complete surprise to us both). My father ‘got it’ about Monty Python, and a little more about me. What a fabulous bunch of coconuts -
Two really great fellers from a much better time.
Absolutely 💯
A much better time?
@@stewartmackay You need a translation? 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
John's ability to be so honest and so vulnerable in front of an audience is inspiring. 😊
Absolutely 💯
what a wonderful interview..
thanks for posting🙌🙌
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It's bringing huge joy 😊
Life of Brian, hilarious.
Absolutely priceless and some of Cleese’s real world insights are fascinating, sitting here feeling bloody awful and this was better than any medicine the doc could prescribed, grew up around Python and Fawlty Towers great times awesome comedy and I won’t make any predictable remark couldn’t get away with that today, oops I just did! Lol thanks for sharing this 👍
Dinky-Doo
If Humor has a human form, it looks like John Cleese. I love this man, even if he looks serious he is still funny. 💙💜❤️👍👍🏽🇳🇱🙏
The German Episode was my favourite comedy sketch ever.
May I suggest the Prawns Goebbels?
@@kingkrimson8771 Don't mention the war!
My husband can recite all Monty Python films, Faulty Towers episodes and Black Adder series verbatim (you cannot mention missing socks in this house, because it will elicit a whole episode of Black Adder 🤣)
@@kingkrimson8771 I will check it out 👍
@@kingkrimson8771 I missed that in the sketch
Every word he says is either funny or (and) interesting. Amazing.
When I was a kid, from about 13, me and some brother friends of mine would watch through each episode of Monty Python and just wet ourselves, we knew it line by line. The movies just took it to another level. I adores the zany idiocy, because it fit so well with how my mind worked.
Such a brilliant fellow.
I watched his show while going to school in Great Britain and loved watching him and his co-stars! Lots of laughs at our home! One was from a Cadburys Hazelnut Bar that made us laugh so hard we had to go up to our rooms at the Hotel because we couldn’t stop, much like watching the Monty Python Show!
Great trip down memory lane. Thank you.
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This is so, so, so funny. John Cleese simply has to talk apparently normally and it is quite hilarious.
I can't believe I got to meet John and Graham at different times in the 70's when I was a teenager...
Precious memories.
ABSOLUTELY 💯
Lucky you.
Never seen that one before, fan bloody tastic. Laugh out loud several times, cheers Scottie
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I adore John Cleese and Fawlty Towers.
Loved Parker and John Cleese. Absolute classic.
Just in time thank you for the artists of the world to show a different face, John Cleese and Monty Python, peter Sellers the Goons Great times to be a kid with a radio.
@@manfromsnowy
Loved the Goons.
How sad that copyright prevents us seeing the clips they are discussing. Sort of copyright within copyright even after all these years.
@@davidcochran848
The BBC restricts its sale, I’d guess because they hate it because it’s not Woke.
I awaited Monty's first show in the 1970s, courtesy Milwaukee, WI USA PBS. After first sketch, I said , "What t he'll is this?" Mr. Cleese then came on and said, "And now for something completely different." I instantly fell to the floor in spasms of belly laughter.
Forever thankful, Tom.
One of the Best Parkinson’s shows ever.
I saw the infamous Cleese once in Londons West End.
John is a comic genius. Wish I had a dime for every belly laugh he caused!
As a New Zealander I am deeply honoured!
@@susanpockett4314 to have captured John's virginity?
Susan, are you that Female ? lol
I love how John keeps talking through the applause. He just doesn't care, wonderful. Yes, one of the funniest interviews ever.
Loved the Fish called Wanda. A young Kevin Kline & Jamie Curtis.
if anyone ever asks for the definitive definition of the word 'charming'. ....there he is.
Love this interview so funny I'm a old person and a big fan. My Dad was like him born when his parents were in their 40s an oops baby and his 2 siblings were already in their middle and late teens ( he was born in 1908). So i was raised by fokes from late 1800s mostly. A very different world.
So was I and still feel closer to that simpler world of my grand parents generation pre WWI. But that war sent us to the world we live in today.
I remember as a child galloping around town with my friends saying "runaway runaway!"😂
I’m not gay. But I just fell in love with another man. Superb .
It's hard to believe how utterly out of this world Monty Python comedy was when they first appeared in Canada in the early seventies. My friends either thought it was the most hilarious thing we have ever seen or they didn't understand what was so funny.
Me and my friends here in Oklahoma would say "it's just a flesh wound" no matter the horrible injury we sustained.
‘tis but a scratch
@@johnmalcolm9980 exactly!! That was Gary's favorite
Best interview I've seen in ages. Bravo!
THANK YOU 😊 🙏
His reflection on the hug-story is exceptional!
Why am I smiling so hard.
So thankful to have found a retrospective on one of my heroes who is not yet dead!!
That does it, I'm outahere.
He's on TH-cam NDE's. He believes in life after death (so do I)!
Archie Leach......Fish called wanda
Was
Cary Grant' who's real name was Archibald Leach, so a nice touch of respect to the man himself
What a great hour of entertainment!
What a loss to the world had John Cleese succumbed to the allure of accountancy. Unimaginable .
I needed a laugh...that was just great! Made my day now.😂
I truly love both those marvellous men
john cleese is brilliant
I have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy his works to the fullest. With such awesome talent how could anyone not see the obvious genius?
How was that Mr. Cleese?
That will be fifty P.
without him and the others, the world would be a much darker place...their work and their influence cannot be measured but without it all we would feel another emptiness besides the ones each of us have...I remember the first time I started to get lost in their very smart but so very silly world and how calming it was, how light and bearable all difficulties seemed for those moments...
I remember john cleese in fawlty towers my favourite being when he hit his car when it broke down
My two brothers and sisters sat down to watch The Life of Brian one Saturday on Beta max I believe and we were in fits of laughter, Our mother who was widowed young and who raised us as strict Irish Roman Catholics came home from work and sat down to join in the fun, it took longer than it should’ve for the penny to drop.. it was when they dropped the great big rock on John Cleese in the blasphemy sketch, Mother declared this film is blasphemous and turned it off and then set about giving me a good hiding for bringing it into the house.. we were all to weak with laughter to even attempt escape 😂😂😂😂😂😂
How can one man be this outrageously talented? An awesome legend in his own time.
His Callard and Bowser radio spots are classic Cleese-utterly hilarious.
Jolly good stuff. British humour is fantastically good!
Never really got into Monty Python but John Cleese is unique. Fawlty Towers was a masterpiece.
@lindaduffell4386 I wonder, was it too popular and that made it not as desirable?
@@randelford5817 I got into it when it first aired in the UK and all my mates thought I was an idiot for liking it - they all preferred Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in, which I thought was rubbish! I first came across John Cleese in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - a brilliant radio series.
The best celebrity interview I've ever seen -- authentic, intelligent, interesting and funny. Well done!
Thank You 😊 🙏
Great show, thank you so much 😁
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Never known so much humour and wisdom come from one person. Brilliant.
Best interview ever, what a guy! Being funny is a sign of high intelligence, and Cleese is living proof of that.
That was a complete joy, from beginning to end. Fascinating, funny, interesting, heart-warming and pure entertainment. I grew up watching Parky, and it's no coincidence that John Cleese has the initials JC. Thank you for posting this.
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Hillarious xxx 😅❤😅 unlike you Sir , The Station Hotel is no longer standing ❤❤❤ great story 😂❤😂 The good old days xxx
John Cleese is welcome in New Zealand any time.
As he said he has already been there. Can't see why he would but it would be great to hear him take the locals apart.
@@kaylenebruce7691 Absolutely!
Still brilliant😂
This was quite a while back. Parkinson died 2023.
That was delightful! What a treat!
And now for something completely different..
Legend!
I laughed all the way through, and enjoyed the seriousness when it was there. Great show.
Lovely interview, thanks for that
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Delightful! Thank you for so many laughs!
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I now understand why the guy (girl) taking the photograph always says:
"Say CLEESE"!!
Would the World have survived this long without British Humor?
I don't know about the world but I grew up in England in the 1960s and I know I wouldn't have survived my childhood without a sense of humour. Back then it was Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies. The Pythons came later - wacky and wonderful.
One of the best interviews I've seen...
so called comedians could learn a lot from this!!!!!!!
Everyone could learn a lot
I Love John Cleese! ! ,I'm American! ! For 40 years! ❤
Fun fact. The family name was Cheese. But when John Cleese's father was a young man he decided to have his last name legally changed to Cleese. Good move.
@@yowzephyr
Is that true???
@@Rotebuehl1 Yes, it's true. Wikipedia: "His family's surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and used the name Cleese when he enlisted in the Army during the First World War; he changed it officially by deed poll in 1923."
Which makes me think that is why there was no cheese in the Cheese Shop sketch. Hmmmm.... (Zeph, don't get a swollen head. I made this point several months ago in another video.)
@@ownpetard8379 Yes, I've thought of this. There's also another Monty Python sketch that involves cheese. One can't help but suspect that Cleese's input was involved and that it sprang from him knowing that his family name was Cheese. Or perhaps the other writers knew of it and they were teasing him.
@@yowzephyr Look up “Dr Kate Lister” and “cu*t surname”.
He soooo funny....
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS 😂
John Cleese is not only a marvelous actor, a terrific writer, a collection of amazing characters, and a first rate comedian, but a great HUMAN BEING. He is absolutely not full of himself, always finds an angle for self deprecation, and it seems, is nothing like the odd, rude, weird, and eccentric characters he plays. What a joy to see and hear him. Thanks, Scottie McClue and the Great John Cleese.
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If there really was a hotel like Fawlty Towers it would be full booked until 4035. Obviously some of those who booked wouldn’t make it but at least they tried.
Of course, Archie Leach was Cary Grant's real name. 33:23
Brilliant.
Thank You 😊 🙏
One and only JOHN CLEESE 🤣
Even playing an old west sheriff in a western in 1985 (Silverado), he was so fun to watch, and funny too of course.
I did the argument clinic in an amateur night (from memory) over 30 years ago.
I've told you once.
Bureau of Funny Walks and Dead Parrot sketch are solid in my head.