Cleese Visits In Edinburgh In Alimony Tour
Comedy
legend John Cleese will be bringing his Alimony Tour
to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in June 2011, currently his only date
in Scotland. Best known for his idiosyncratic turns in
Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty
Towers, Cleese plans bring his unique comedic perspective
to audiences across the UK next year.
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”.
