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    They were basically writing to amuse themselves. "I think we were fortunate to have developed certain archetypes that appeal to people in many different cultures ... But it was so easy back then. There was no pressure to get an audience. We had no idea who was watching Monty Python." Those cultural archetypes often devolved into the absurd, and increasingly featured the black comedy for which Cleese is now so famous. Full Article at The Register Guard
    I think we were fortunate to have developed certain archetypes that appeal to people in many different cultures ... But it was so easy back then. There was no pressure to get an audience. We had no idea who was watching Monty Python.
    John Cleese – John Cleese SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
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John Cleese takes crowd on a funny ride Wednesday at the McDonald
  1. People who grow up in boring towns have an enormous advantage as comedians
    John Cleese – John Cleese SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  2. What I realized was that Graham loved was silly behavior on formal occasions
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  3. noticing very little of it ... she was just a little down for about fifty years.
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  4. The goal of everyone in Weston
    John Cleese – John Cleese SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  5. We still laugh immoderately ... We were like gods creating a really awful life for Basil (Fawlty).
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  6. If Graham laughed at a sketch, you knew the audience would laugh ... He was also the most unpunctual person I have ever met.
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  7. Apples falling in your lap
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  8. My relationship with my mother was not difficult enough to make me a true genius but enough that I often found myself responding to my mother’s phobias and depressions in what might be seen as odd ways.
    John Cleese – John Cleese SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago
  9. So why am I in this land of water-logged lumberjacks, tree-huggers and self-righteous bicycle riders?
    SOURCE: The Register Guard 1 month ago

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