John Cleese’s Cleeseblog

You may have read in the news that the Norwegians recently attempted to trap me by paying the Icelanders to burn parts of their country in order to spread a cloud of airborne debris across Europe, thus closing all the airports. It took me a while to get to the bottom of it, but eventually [...]

There is a yet another re-run of Fawlty Towers showing in the UK soon on UKTV and the Guardian newspaper have published a short clip of the latest “about” programme which is to accompany it, which you may be interested in watching. Or not.

I am fascinated by the way nobody assumed the Russian football team were going very far in the Euro 2008 competition, until their spectacular annihilation a couple of days ago of the rather good Dutch side.
It made me consider two things:
Firstly, that the media pundits, so-called experts who sit around filling in the TV pauses [...]

With the new (last?) series of Big Brother UK starting tonight, I thought it a good idea to put the record straight.
It’s not widely known that the producers of Celebrity Big Brother have attempted to recruit yours truly for every UK series so far. In fact, they have frequently resorted to quite ludicrous levels of [...]