How can you not instantly smile whenever you see John Cleese come on screen? This man is ninja in the martial art of comedy. I still think my personal favorite performance of his was in the hilarious “A Fish Called Wanda” (which by the way… if you haven’t seen it, you REALLY should).
Well, according to Life Style Extra, the master is getting ready to hang em’ up and call it a career. How sad for us all. And what does he want to do with his time now? Apparently teach:
He told Britain’s The Times newspaper: “I can never do better than ‘Fawlty Towers’ whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.”
The comedy genius – who played hotel owner Basil Fawlty in his cult series set in a run-down Torquay inn – also revealed he is becoming a “comedy professor” and his book will feature as a set text for his “master classes”. The actor – who lives in Santa Barbara, California – decided to pen the educational textbook in reaction to the poor quality of today’s TV comedy.
If this is indeed the end of the road for the brilliant career of John Cleese, then we should all stand up and salute him, and hope that his influence in teaching has a positive effect on the future generation of comedy performers… we need it. We at The Movie Blog salute you John Cleese.
