(Photo credit: Vaughan Treyvellan)For the first time ever, comedy legend - and “the most senile member of Monty Python” according to the press release - will be bringing his Alimony Tour to South Africa.
Best known for his idiosyncratic turns in Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, John Cleese will bring his unique comedic perspective to audiences across South Africa.
Cleese has achieved a lot in his career which started as a sketch writer for BBC Radio’s Dick Emery Show and then The Frost Report. After this, stardom beckoned and 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 his then wife Connie Booth. After huge UK success, John 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 the unstoppable Mr Cleese appear in the James Bond movie The World is not Enough and later Die Another Day. His latest film role was none other than the ‘The Guv’ in the popular South African film Spud. From writing to starring in plays, musicals, theatrical and comedy productions, to films and sitcoms, Cleese has done it all, and now it’s time for him to tell audiences 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".
You can catch this intimate performance on October 21and 22 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (tickets from R350 to R500) and at the Teatro at Montecasino Johannesburg from October 25 to 29 (tickets from R295 to R500) presented by 567 CapeTalk and Talk Radio 702. Bookings now open at Computicket.
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