John Cleese

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John Marwood Cleese es un actor, comediante, guionista, productor y presentador de televisión inglés. Surgiendo de Cambridge Footlights en los años 1960, logró su primer éxito en el Edinburgh Festival Fringe y como guionista e intérprete en The Frost Report (1966–1967). A finales de los años 1960, cofundó Monty Python, el grupo de comedia responsable de la serie de comedia de sketches surrealista Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974). Junto con sus compañeros de Python Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones y Michael Palin, Cleese protagonizó las películas Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) y The Meaning of Life (1983).

Occupation: actor, television actor, film actor, comedian
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Born: October 27, 1939
Website: https://www.johncleese.com
Net worth: $20 million (reported)

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Mixed view of the Catholic Church because of gap between founder teachings and later administrationsource
Jesus performed miracles, possible because healers exist who can do extraordinary thingssource

Publicly stated positions only, each with its source — never inferred.

Resumen

John Marwood Cleese es un actor, comediante, guionista, productor y presentador de televisión inglés. Surgiendo de Cambridge Footlights en los años 1960, logró su primer éxito en el Edinburgh Festival Fringe y como guionista e intérprete en The Frost Report. A finales de los años 1960, cofundó Monty Python, el grupo de comedia responsable de la serie de comedia de sketches surrealista Monty Python's Flying Circus. Junto con sus compañeros de Python Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones y Michael Palin, Cleese protagonizó las películas Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) y The Meaning of Life (1983).

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Notable quotes

“Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance.”
— Defending the film Life of Brian on BBC chat show Friday Night Saturday Morning (9 November 1979)
“If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.”
— On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)
“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”
— BBC interview on Die Another Day (20 November 2002)]
“You see, you could never do a sketch like that these days. The audience is too uninformed. I blame the Americans. Nation of obese, violent, pig-ignorant, bible-thumping morons contaminating world culture. That’s why I spend most of my time here in France. … Beautiful, isn’t it? Just look at those olive trees. [Interviewer: This is Santa Barbara.]”
— From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.
“Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.”
— From Channel 4 documentary The Secret Life of Brian (2007)
“All humans are stupid, but the smarter ones at least have a handle on their own ignorance.”
— In conversation with Matthew Syed. Matthew Syed, "When dogma beats data, reason is lost", The Sunday Times (27 September 2020), p. 21