A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

British comedian John Cleese on how he created the character of Basil Fawlty from the classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979). Cleese reveals that Fawlty - an eccentric, chronically uptight, hotelier - was inspired by a real-life hotel manager he encountered in Torquay, England called Mr Sinclair. See the funniest, most splendiferous and bizarre moments on a show that had five million Aussies a week turning on their TV sets in the 1970s and 80s. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curat

A few spots I did for Accurist in 1978. Don't miss the ending! | John Cleese

Fawlty Towers premiered 50 years ago today on the BBC. Half a century later, it still makes me laugh. This is my favorite scene, how many of you have seen it before? 🛎️😤💥🚗 #fawltytowers #ukcomedy #bbc | John Cleese

😂🇬🇧🏨💡 Timeless British Comedy Gold This isn’t just any sitcom scene — it’s Fawlty Towers at its outrageous best. Basil is showing an Australian guest to her room after a long trip 🧳. The bathroom light isn’t working 💡, and while she stretches her neck against the wall 🙆‍♀️, Basil reaches around the corner… and mistakes her breast for the light switch. 😳 At that very moment, Sybil walks in 🚪—and the chaos is pure comic perfection. 🎬 Written by John Cleese & Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers