Field Mouse: A Final Wave at the World” or “The Alimony Tour, Year One”

But back to John Cleese.

Alas there was to be no silly walk. The state of his right knee simply did not allow it,
said Cleese, now nearly 70, rolling up his trouser leg and revealing the gnarled lump
beneath.
Poor man! It sounds nasty.

I'm just waiting for Alyce Faye to go public with her side of the story--or was buying her silence part of the divorce settlement? Tho' it sounds like she'd get absolutely no sympathy from the British press.

meow

Maybe she's just glad to be shut of him?

Oh, now I'm doing what I hate! Speculating details of the personal lives of people I don't know and have no business knowing about!

What is WITH the British press? He didn't see the show, but could tell it wasn't funny? It looks like the public is bashing him appropriately in the comments. With this and the silly "Fry isn't funny anymore" article, I think they just write stuff to get people to reply and forward their article around... which I did... oops.

Oh well - here's hoping John is laughing all the way to the bank! I'll bet the ex is interviewing ghost writers for her memoir - I won't buy it!

As for OJ: yeah, sure, the case it's very brutal, but what Michael Winner said, that was funny.

mrsthing RE: Oh god, that is so NOT funny!

I agree but you have to consider the source: the man that brought us Death Wish 1 through gazillion.

mrsthing RE: John Cleese Isn't Funny Anymore

I'm leaning toward George's side. I don't think I could stand listening for two hours about a man's marital spat....or splat if you will. He could be doing so much more with his time and craft, illuminating the pathways to the soul, uncovering peace, love, respect and understanding.

..........................I guess that's just not on.

And besides, what sort of fuck-up would publish an article criticizing John Cleese on Monty Python's 40th anniversary?

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh....all right. Freedom of speech trumps respect and manners any day.

I was being totally biased and self-righteous. Not two of my better qualities, but they keep me humble.

Does Gary and Dean carry his holiness around in a sadan chair?

"Gondolas, gondolas; everywhere fucking gondolas!"

Or something like that.

Damn critic! I fucking hate critics. I hope George Pitcher wakes up tomorrow morning with his balls fallen off, if he has any, that is. Anybody ever notice how critics try to make themselves experts on things they never researched, never seen, never done, and then try to make themselves better and more famous than the real talent they are cutting down? THAT'S what's pathetic. John Cleese certainly isn't pathetic. Don't respond to that nerd George Pitcher. Instead, go on that newspaper and respond to everybody else, like a million times, so he sees that other people on that newspaper get more feedback from readers than he does. Silence him out. The stupid ass. You keep going, John Cleese.

I want to also go punch/slap Pitcher for even bringing up Paul in that article. That was such a far-fetched thing to bring in there. Paul didn't earn his living by doing comedy. But he most certainly wrote some songs against his ex-wife, which Pitcher would know if he owned the copy of the latest fireman's album and listened to "Two Magpies". Or if he actually read the lyrics to "Vanity Fair" on Chaos and Creation album when Paul was still married to Mills.

Paul did it with music, and John has done this with humor. It's quite understandable.

Fanny doesn't like George Pitcher AT ALL. Critics are useless crap.

okay. Now I feel guilty about being mean. So I erased it.

Okay, I realize you're right, Gungas about freedom of speech etc., but until some critic has done this to you about something you created, you don't know how awful it feels. It does hurt emotionally, and it hurts financially, too, because some people reading the critic will decide there is something wrong with what you created and they won't give it a chance. But most of all, it's just mean, in my opinion. I think a true "critic" would give what is good and what is bad. I think a lot of critics forget that it is just their opinion, and instead they pretend to be the final judgment, and that isn't fair, either. There should be more of , "this is how I feel but you might feel differently", instead of "this is pathetic".

I think abuse of freedom of speech is why we have harassment, slander, and libel laws.

Good for you! My comment on here that I erased because it was too mean, was that somebody needs to be a critic about George's big-ass ears. Then I suggested his mother must have been a donkey. But then I felt bad because it was very mean. I felt guilty, so I erased it. I feel much better now.

Gungas, thanks for the clips! Never seen that before very Cleesesque

We have two fancy casinos in CT that get all the famous has-be---I mean, stars. You could come to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun, and I'd go to see you, yes I would! But don't come in December, because I'm busier than a one-armed paperhanger that month with caroling gigs!

Bob Saget isn't all that funny. I've heard his monologue, and it's peppered with useless profanity and just not that funny. But I suppose I'm spoiled by John's wonderful comedy.

BTW, John said a $5000 word on Fallon, I think. They bleeped him anyway. I hope he can afford the FCC fine.

But somehow, I can't picture him saying anything dirty..

Bob Saget, from "the Aristocrats"

Can you picture it now?

Noooooooooooooooo! We saw him and I thought he was trying to make up for lost time on the squeeky clean Funniest Home Videos - every other word out of his mouth was F&^% or S&^%. Not my cuppa tea...

I meant to say Fuck or Shit - I forgot where I was - no virginal eyes to protect here!

Friday, Oct. 23, 2009

'Python alum John Cleese kicks off 'Alimony Tour' at the Gallo Center
By Jim Carnes

Appropriate to this area, Cleese has a great interest in California wine and winemaking, and hosted the documentary "Wine for the Confused," a lighthearted introduction to wine for novices.

"Food and wine were the pleasures of my life," Cleese said. "Now, I can't digest anything with dairy or gluten. I can go into a coffee shop and survey it all and there's nothing I can eat but a single espresso. That leaves wine. Thank God for wine."

His performance, generically described as "a behind-the-scenes look at the zany and hilarious world of comedy" will be more like a free-wheeling oral history, he said. "There will be a bit at the beginning about why I'm doing this stuff, which is the alimony. Then there will be some biography, some talk about why I became a comedian, my relationship with my mother, what it was like in England at the time of 'Python' and why/how I rebelled against it."

Cleese will share stories about "working with very interesting people (such as) Marty Engles and Ringo Starr, leading up to the formation of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

"If you want to understand what that process was like, you must consider that we were writers, not performers. We had no idea what to do on stage and whether anyone would watch — in fact, we were pretty sure they wouldn't."

Modesto Bee

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Excuse me, but HOLY SHIT!!

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Gosh!

.......bitch.