So anyway...
by John Cleese · first published 2014
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In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown.
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It wasn’t that long ago that we held rich people in contempt. Funny, this goes against everything I've read on the topic about the US. For example, just this week I read Cleese's So, Anyway, where he mentioned how when he lived in the US, in the early 60s, he noted how money made you respectable, and regardless of how you made it, whereas in Britain it was taboo to talk about making money.
on “Robert Shiller says Bitcoin is the best example right now of a bubble” ↗…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovt1sC3rtM&list=PLWsk2FPzPs... (sharing this list feels wrong because jokes on stage live on back-references to previous jokes so much is lost) [2] https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stewart-lee [3] https://www.amazon.com/So-Anyway-John-Cleese/dp/0385348266 [4] https://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-Joh...
on “What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)” ↗I'm currently reading John Cleese's autobiography (So Anyway...), which talks a lot about how he and Graham Chapman - two of the members of Monty Python - got their start in comedy in the Footlights at Cambridge. (Cleese was preparing for a career in law and Chapman…
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