Welcome to Fawlty Towers, the best loved bad hotel in the world, and to "the definitive volume of sit-com perfection. Required reading. "-Punch. What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the great wedding anniversary disa[...]

The unabridged script of the hilarious first feature film by the Monty Python team. A mock-heroic tale set in -mediaeval Britain, the screenplay is supplemented by eight pages of black and white stills from the film. This is an essential purchase for the many fans of this cult film.[...]

The complete scripts, with stills, from the all-time favourite British television comedy series.

Includes the favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre, which include: why accountancy is not boring, spamelot, the Piranha brothers, the lumberjack song, the larch, every sperm is sacred, the ministry of silly walks, always look on the bright side of life, rat recipes, albatross, constitutional pe[...]

George Washington was said to be "First in War, First in Peace." In The Making of the President 1789, humorist Marvin Kitman argues that our first president was also the first American leader to ride his personal foibles to political greatness. Kitman lampoons the modern "campaign insider" books, as[...]

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly pe[...]

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John Cleese är en av världens mest berömda komiker som har uppnått ikonisk status i världen efter framgångarna med Monty Python och Pang i bygget. Och med filmer som Life of Brian, Meningen med livet och En fisk som heter Wanda

Cleese inledde[...]

John Cleese är en av världens mest berömda komiker som har uppnått ikonisk status i världen efter framgångarna med Monty Python och Pang i bygget. Och med filmer som Life of Brian, Meningen med livet och En fisk som heter Wanda

Cleese inledde sin komikerbana som medlem i Cambridge Footl[...]

Vuonna 1969 kuusi englantilaista kaveria (tai oikeastaan yksi heistä oli Walesista ja toinen taas porukkaan tunkeutunut jenkki) ryhtyi tekemään tv-ohjelmaa häikäilemättömästä, epäluotettavasta ja jokseenkin limaisesta teatteriagentista nimeltä Monty Python. Nyt, miltei neljäkymmentä vuo[...]