Actor John Cleese - who played the sarcastic, ill-tempered hotel owner in the Fawlty Towers sitcom - has said nobody noticed the "terrible, terrible joke" he wrote in reference to Wales in one of the ...
JOHN Cleese is talking about the runaway success of Fawlty Towers - The Play, having had two sold out West End seasons and a 10 month UK tour which began in September 2025.
John Cleese has said his stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”. The ...