"I'll tell you what, because I decided to write an autobiography, and as I said to people - probably a bit defensively - if I was going to write a book about 'Monty Python' it would actually be called 'Monty Python by John Cleese.' But if it's John Cleese's autobiography, then I'm afraid you're stuck with the fact that it's about me. So until we meet you all again next year, it's goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.' And then somebody came out and said 'I'm afraid there's been a few changes in the running order,' which I thought was quite a good joke."Ī lot of fans wanted a "Monty Python" tell-all book. Well we hope we brought you laughter and joy. "We used to start the show by singing a song called (singing) 'It's the end of the show, it's time now to go. There's an audience.' And we ran upstairs and raced onto the stage singing and there were two people in the audience. There's nobody here.' So we went down and had a drink and suddenly the guy ran in and said 'No, no.
There were three of us doing this little review, late night review, and the producer said to us 'It's alright, you. "I once performed to an audience of two at the Edinburg Festival. On a time he performed for an audience of two Unfortunately, that conversation wasn't recorded, so with the book coming out in paperback, Robin takes the opportunity to catch up with John Cleese again. Kennedy Library in Boston to talk about Cleese's memoir "So, Anyway." (excerpt below).
One of Here & Now host Robin Young's favorite interviews in recent years was with legendary British funnyman John Cleese of "Monty Python" and "A Fish Called Wanda" fame. Last year, they sat down at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on November 7, 2014. Robin Young tweeted this picture with John Cleese after interviewing him at the John F. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival) This article is more than 7 years old. John Cleese attends the Monty Python Press Conference during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater on Apin New York City.
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