A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

John Cleese and Graham Chapman in one of the funniest sketches ever made. You'll absolutely crease at their faces! | British Comedy Classics

I figure because we've now all been quarantined for so long and are probably irritating those we're stuck with, I should teach you the art of irritating. With a little skill and tact we can irritate people without bringing them to anger, and there's plenty of that in the world today we don't need any more of it. As demonstrated in my 1968 television special 'How to Irritate People.' | John Cleese

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Fawlty Towers premiered 50 years ago today on the BBC. Half a century later, it still makes me laugh. This is my favorite scene, how many of you have seen it before? 🛎️😤💥🚗 #fawltytowers #ukcomedy #bbc | John Cleese

😂🇬🇧🏨💡 Timeless British Comedy Gold This isn’t just any sitcom scene — it’s Fawlty Towers at its outrageous best. Basil is showing an Australian guest to her room after a long trip 🧳. The bathroom light isn’t working 💡, and while she stretches her neck against the wall 🙆‍♀️, Basil reaches around the corner… and mistakes her breast for the light switch. 😳 At that very moment, Sybil walks in 🚪—and the chaos is pure comic perfection. 🎬 Written by John Cleese & Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers