Monty Python star John Cleese reveals he ‘killed a person’
- Fawlty Towers star made the remark within the newest episode of GB News collection
John Cleese has made a startling admission. The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star says a fan died whereas laughing a lot throughout one in all his performances.
‘We killed a man,’ Cleese says, referring to the 1988 movie A Fish Called Wanda, during which he starred reverse Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis.
‘Kevin Kline and I killed a man in Denmark. He was a dentist, he had a huge laugh. A famous laugh. Very popular. It was in Aarhus, not a big town, but everybody knew him.
‘And he went to see Wanda and he started laughing about two minutes in and never stopped.
The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star, pictured, says a fan died while laughing so much during one of his performances
John Cleese in the 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda, in which he starred opposite Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis
‘They carried him out dead, he’d had a coronary heart assault.’
The 84-year-old made the remark within the newest episode of his GB News collection, The Dinosaur Hour, to be screened tomorrow night.
He says many followers had shared touching tales with him over time concerning the consolation that humour can deliver.
The 84-year-old made the remark within the newest episode of his GB News collection. Pictured, a poster for A Fish Called Wanda
Jamie Lee Curtis, pictured, starred alongside John Cleese within the 1988 comedy movie
‘I realised about ten years ago that making people laugh is kind of doing more than just making them laugh,’ he says. ‘When you do a Comicon [fan event] or something like that and people come up and say, “Thanks for making me laugh all these years,” it leaves a tear in the eye.
‘Women say something different, they say, “Thanks for helping to form my sense of humour”.
‘It is lovely, beautiful. Some others say thank you for helping me through some of the difficult periods. And you suddenly realise that if people laugh, it helps, it’s not simply leisure.’
Cleese (left) provides: ‘Tom Stoppard, the great playwright, once said a beautiful thing, “The shortest distance between two people is a laugh”. And he’s proper.’
