Cleese Visits Lowry and Liverpool Empire on Alimony Tour
to The Lowry and the Liverpool Empire later this month. Best known for his idiosyncratic turns in Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, Cleese is bringing his unique comedic perspective to audiences across the UK.
The comedian’s marriage to his third wife Alyce Faye Eichelberger
ended in 2008 and Cleese claims the tour will fund his alimony. The
divorce settlement is believed to be in the region of £12 million.
Cleese’s career started as a sketch writer for BBC Radio’s Dick Emery Show and then The Frost Report.
Monty Python was created with Cleese co-writing and starring in four
series and three films. He went on to achieve further great success as
the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with then wife Connie Booth.
After huge UK success Cleese went on to crack the USA with A Fish Called Wanda, which he wrote and starred in with Jamie Lee Curtis. The late 1990s saw thim appear in Bond movies The World is Not Enough and later Die Another Day.
From writing to starring in plays, musicals, theatrical and comedy
productions, to films and sitcoms, Cleese has done it all, and now he
plans to tell all about his jam-packed life.
Cleese says “it
is an evening of well honed anecdotes, psychoanalytical tit-bits,
details of recent surgical procedures, and unprovoked attacks on former
colleagues, especially Michael Palin”.
John Cleese‘s Alimony Tour arrives at the Lowry on 24 – 27 May and the Liverpool Empire from 31 May – 1 June.
