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Monty Python's Eric Idle warns performers of AI perils

Monty Python star Eric Idle has called on fellw performers "to protect ourselves" from artificial intelligence copies of their work and likeness.

George Harrison • 19 Jul

John Cleese to feature in new film about life on tour

Actor John Cleese will feature in a new documentary film that will show a "different side" to the comedian as he embarks on his European tour.

Television • 09 Jul

A Propstore employee looks at a llama and Carol Cleveland's dress from the Llamas sketch from the Monty Python Live (Mostly) stage show Photos: Press Association

Monty Python props from final live show up for auction

Dozens of props, costumes, and a lifelike llama from Monty Python's final live show are being auctioned.

Television • 01 Jul

John Cleese has lavished praise on his stage adaption of Fawlty Towers

Cleese: Fawlty Towers play 'funnier than anything else'

John Cleese has said his stage adaption of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show's 1975 TV debut it is still "funnier than anything else that's on these days".

Fawlty Towers • 15 Apr

John Cleese starred in Fawlty Towers as Basil Fawlty

John Cleese cut 'racial slurs' from Fawlty Towers play

John Cleese has said "literal-minded" viewers cause a problem when creating comedy as he feels they "don't understand metaphor, irony, and comic exaggeration".

Theatre • 02 May 24

Palin says Monty Python reunions are 'rather tearful'

Michael Palin has confessed that seeing his fellow former Monty Python co-stars can be a "rather tearful" experience.

Monty Python • 04 Apr 24

Cleese hits back at Monty Python co-star Eric Idle

John Cleese has hit back at his former Monty Python co-star Eric Idle after he criticised the group's management over its financial difficulties, saying: "We always loathed and despised each other."

Monty Python • 14 Feb 24

Eric Idle: Monty Python is a financial 'disaster'

Monty Python's Flying Circus star Eric Idle has said that he has continued to work at the age of 80 for financial reasons.

Television • 12 Feb 24

The cast of the stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers (left to right) Hemi Yeroham as Manuel, Victoria Fox as Polly, Adam Jackson-Fox as Basil Fawlty, and Anna-Jane Casey as Sybil Fawlty. Photo credits: Neil Reading PR/PA Wire

John Cleese adapts Fawlty Towers for West End stage

A stage adaptation of classic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers will premiere on London's West End, almost 50 years after the first episode was recorded at the BBC.

Television • 02 Feb 24

John Cleese to make GB News debut tonight

Fawlty Towers and Monty Python legend John Cleese is set to present his first show on GB News, kicking off at 9pm this Sunday.

Television • 29 Oct 23

John Cleese: BBC comedy in parlous state

John Cleese has said comedy at the BBC is in a "parlous state" because the corporation is "run like a bureaucracy" and is made up of "committees".

Television • 10 Oct 23

John Cleese is working on Faulty Towers reboot

Cleese says Fawlty Towers reboot 'hugely different'

Fawlty Towers writer John Cleese has said the reboot will be "hugely different" from the original.

Television • 29 May 23

Hugh Grant: a damages claim brought by the actor against the publisher of The Sun will go ahead to a trial following a ruling by a High Court judge in London. Photo credit: James Manning/PA Wire

Hugh Grant's claims of unlawful activity to go to trial

Actor Hugh Grant's claim against the publisher of The Sun over alleged unlawful information gathering will go ahead to a trial.

Movies • 26 May 23

Fawlty Towers to be revived - with John Cleese aboard

Legendary BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers is set to be revived with John Cleese returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

Television • 07 Feb 23

Elon Musk inspired by Monty Python with new charge

Elon Musk says he took inspiration from Monty Python for "charging for insults and arguments" amid ongoing backlash from his decisions as the new head of Twitter.

Television • 02 Nov 22

John Cleese to present new show on GB News

John Cleese said he would tell the BBC "not on your nelly" if it asked him to make a new programme - as he announced he is joining GB News after being told it is a "free speech channel".

Television • 10 Oct 22

Alan Partridge is coming to Baile Áha! Cliath and he's bringing Martin Brennan with him. Picture: BBC

Steve Coogan says his rebel Irishman will be back

Comedian and actor Steve Coogan says that Martin Brennan, the west of Ireland farmer who stole the show when he burst into Irish rebel songs on BBC TV three years ago, will be back as part of the new Alan Partridge live shows in Ireland this April.

Steve Coogan • 16 Mar 22

John Cleese to complain over 'dishonest' interview

John Cleese has said he is putting in a formal complaint about the "deception, dishonesty and tone" of a recent BBC interview he gave.

Television • 16 Dec 21

John Cleese to present series examining cancel culture

Veteran comedian John Cleese is to explore cancel culture in a new series for Channel 4.

John Cleese • 22 Aug 21

John Cleese thinks being woke is no joke

Veteran comic John Cleese has criticised the effect political correctness has had on creativity - saying there is no such thing as a "woke joke".

John Cleese • 03 Sep 20

Removed Fawlty Towers episode to be reinstated on UKTV

A classic episode of 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers is to be reinstated on streaming service UKTV after it was removed because it contains "racial slurs".

Television • 12 Jun 20

The Goodies: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor

Bill Oddie recalls Goodies co-star Tim Brooke-Taylor

Bill Oddie has been remembering his friend and comedy partner in The Goodies, Tim Brooke-Taylor, who died on Sunday.

Tim Brooke Taylor • 14 Apr 20

Cleese mocks Winnie the Pooh voiceover royalties

Comedy legend John Cleese has mocked the paltry royalty payments he receives for narrating Winnie the Pooh.

Movies • 23 Mar 20

Actor and writer Terry Jones in a script conference for BBC television show Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1974

Python stars pay tribute to comedy great Terry Jones

Terry Jones' Monty Python co-stars Michael Palin and John Cleese have paid moving tributes to the actor, after the star passed away on Wednesday from a rare form of dementia, at the age of 77.

Terry Jones • 22 Jan 20

Terry Jones - "a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man whose uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect and extraordinary humour has given pleasure to countless millions"

Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77

The death has been announced of Monty Python star, writer and director Terry Jones. He was 77 and had been diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) in 2016.

Television • 22 Jan 20