Fawlty Towers is hitting the West End.
John Cleese has adapted the TV show Fawlty Towers for the West End John Cleese has shared his verdict on the state of today’s comedy and, it’s safe to say, he is not a fan. The Fawlty Towers actor, best known for playing hotel owner Basil Fawlty, said he struggled to name two shows produced today after recalling a recent article he’d read talking about all the 30 or so comedy shows in the 1990s. ‘Now I don’t know that people can name one or two comedies, and why is that? I don’t know,’ he said .
‘They’re all keeping up with the Jones’,’ he added, explaining: ‘That’s the rather sad thing about our culture now is that we’ve been affected by the American view, if you’re not rich or famous you’re a bit of a failure. ‘But no one in Weston-super-mare felt that, in my day they thought they were all having perfectly decent lives, and were nice and polite and kind to people.
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