Fawlty Towers News

Who inspires London's concierge of the year? It's not who you'd imagine. In fact, it's probably the last person you'd imagine.

Gavin Gaughan writes: Michael Coveney's account of Timothy Bateson omitted a minor but noteworthy event in television comedy .

LEWD messages victim Andrew Sachs was once the perpetrator of an on-air prank call in Swansea which got so out of hand the police were called in, it has emerged.

THE MARIE Curie Hospice in Hampstead has emerged as the shock benefactor of a prank phone call made to actor Andrew Sachs by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand.

Writer and actor John Cleese says he has a single claim to fame: that he's taller than Dick Cheney.

FAWLTY Towers opened its doors in Rhyl last night with not one, but two Basils. The town's very own Centre Stage Theatre Company performed three classic episodes of the hit BBC comedy at Rhyl Town Hall.

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Pirate Radio: equal parts teen-virgin comedy, '60s greatest hits and "Screw The Man" - with a bit of history thrown in.

A FAMILY plan to sue the NHS for sending a minibus instead of an ambulance when their dad was dying of a heart attack.

ALIENS IN THE ATTIC A vacationing family is invaded by pint-sized aliens in this harmless and wholesome comedy.

Humour is good for us. Laughter makes us healthier and is said to prolong our lives.

TORY councillors have been banned from publicly speaking about travellers...in case someone says something politically incorrect.

Submitted by FunnyFixx.com on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 09:44. BBC interviews John Cleese about his favorite episode of the comedy masterpiece series, Fawlty Towers.

A Russian movie dubbed in English, Perestroika is a weird concoction of personal and cultural discovery on what the meaning of the Universe is.

After a few minutes chatting with Nikolai Witschl about his upcoming role in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy, it starts to sound like he's describing an episode of Fawlty Towers.

Cleese began writing and performing in comedy revues at Clifton College in Bristol, England, and was a member of the renowned Footlights Club while a law student at the University of Cambridge.

IMAGES John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, and Terry Jones in a [Credits : Alan Howard - Hulton Archive/Getty Images] Main British actor in full John Marwood Cleese born October 27, 1939, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset [now in Avon], England British comic actor best known for his television work on Monty Python's Flying Circus and ...

Comic genius John Cleese enjoyed his last performance in Chico so much that he's coming back for more.

"Of all the questions I've ever been asked, that's got to be the stupidest!" I never imagined hearing those words being spat at me in a raging fit of comic apoplexy by John Cleese, the British comedy mastermind who has made a career out of playing flustered upper-crust twits who are constantly enraged by the stupid behavior of everyone in the world ...

Aromantic drama set in Paris, a hilarious hotel and a tribute to a macabre showman arrive DVD on Tuesday, Oct.

Article by Nick Venable : 2009-10-21 15:24:18 I can't possibly say anything about the legendary Fawlty Towers that hasn't been said before, so you're better off putting the DVD on and getting the news straight from the source.