John Cleese is retiring

Comedy legend John Cleese has said he is retiring from writing and performing sitcoms because he will never manage to top the success of Fawlty Towers. The Monty Python star will concentrate instead on publishing a book on the history of comedy and will hold classes explaining how to make people laugh.

John Cleese has been both a literal and figurative giant of British comedy for four decades. Together with Graam Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin they created Monty Python's Flying Circus, the hugely influential sketch show that ran from 1969 to 1974.

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