Speaking ahead of the launch of his stage production Cleese revealed the difficulties he had over concern about how some language would be received by viewers.
Cleese spoke ahead of launch of anticipated stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers'Literal minded' people have ruined comedy by failing to understand 'metaphor, irony and exaggeration' and missing the punchline, John Cleese has claimed.
'I think there was a scene where Major used a couple of words you can't use now, racial slurs they would come under, so we took that out', he told journalists on Thursday.Cleese, pictured today, said the 'literal minded' had ruined comedy when discussing his script Speaking on the challenges of writing comedy, Cleese said: 'Whenever you're doing comedy, you're up against the literal-minded, and the literal-minded don't understand irony.
He also defended the central character within the 1960s comedy Til Death Us Do Part, Alf Garnett, who made offensive remarks, saying that viewers were 'roaring with laughter at him, not with him' but also acknowledged that some were saying, 'Thank God these things are being said at last'.
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