John Cleese is at home, sitting in a comfy chair, not looking that old at all.
The young buxom blonde BBC interviewer (low cut dress) makes pleasantries and then asks him to - "say something about your comedic career”. Then she quickly says – “I am new, and this is my big break - though I don't know who you are at all."
"Well, where do I start?” said John, ignoring her ignorance
“We were all young, experienced professionals, had paid our dues a little bit - worked on some Projects together - Sort of clicked - Thought we could do better - and started writing and doing skits of our own. None of us dreamed we would ever do movies.
“There was comedic affinity, great personal chemistry among us - and we did a lot of great exaggerated Character Comedy - just joking around.
“Comedy is a big tent, from Slapstick to Sharp Satire. There's room for everybody. Choose your poison, as they say.
“Ours was exaggerated British characters. We especially loved doing the Old Ladies.
“There is other comedy, Black Adder for example. Lots of people don't find Rowan Atkinson funny. More like Creepy. But a great comedian at times.
“Just different.
“But I never could see Oscar Wilde's comedic plays as Comedies. There is no Comedy there! Lots of extremely sharp satirical characters - but where's the comedy? No Haw - Haw of the Kind we so expertly Did.
“Well different strokes for different Folks - (to steal a line). Wilde still packs them in theatres with those two or three comedies plays he left behind.
“A group of People of every generation like him.
“Actually, my Fawlty Towers series was sort of my Oscar Wilde plays.
“Should have called my character Ernest.”
