Ok, this is the story, I put together this linkpage in '94, mostly
just for my own sake, and left it like that.
Much later, like the spring '97, I was redecorating my startpage and mentioned that I had
abandon this page...and the result was that I immediatly got many
visitors here, and mails about the links didn't work etcetera...
So it seems like the world needs a page like this anyway, so I'll at update it once (or maybe twice) in a while...
Enjoy!
We can start with a very,very,very, incredible not-large-at-all ("No 3. The Larch. T-h-e L-a-r-c-h") biography about the man:
 John Cleese, nowdays (2002) |
No 6 Ellesmere Road, nowadays (2002) Google Street View link |
John Cleese is about 195 cm tall, but was probably somewhat smaller at birth.
Regs father was John Edwin Cheese, but when Reg joined the army 1915 he changed his last name to Cleese. One cannot help but wonder if the cheese-sketch
was inspired by Johns grandfathers last name.
John is probably pleased that his father changed the last name since one of his best friends in the youth
had the last name "Butter". Some useless fact is that in the 20s Reg Cleese was in India and lived in the same house as the brother to the author P.G. Wodehouse.
His first months John lived at the address Ellesmere Road 6. In school cricket was his favourite sport and he was captain for the school team. 1953 died his grandfather John Edwin Cheese, and the family moved to his house, East Shrubbery 2, next to the police station in Bristol. ("You must bring a ...shrubbery!").
Google Streetview of East Shrubbery 2
When he was about 13 he started to organize jokes he liked, and write them down. His favourite radio show at that age was "The Goon Show". One of Johns teacher in history had difficulties pronouncing "r". (See the sketch about Pontius Pilatus in "Life of Brian" and you'll see what I mean)
When John Cleese started at Cambridge in October 1960 he decided to join the group "The Footlights Club", in the second term he got into the club.
In 1972 he formed the company Video Arts together with three friends. The company was doing business training videos, and this company made John Cleese his fortune. The company was sold in 1989 for 50 million british pounds, 7 of them got to Mr. Cleese. Even though he is not owning the company anymore, he is still working with them, since he likes the people there "As I get older, it seems even nicer to work with friends". For the 30 year anniversary he has done two videos "Messing Up A Meeting" and "Meeting Menaces" together with Video Arts (released in September 2002).
Nowadays Cleese rarely gives interviews, if he does, it is to plug some new movie or products. He is spending much time in America to be close to his daugther from his second marriage. He is now into his third marriage, being married to the American psychologist Alyce Faye Eichelberger.
Some more vital information, John Cleese got artwork by Po Shun
Long. (How the hell do I know?! Simple; One of the old links from '94
was about that artist, unfortunatly that page has ceased to exist, but
I thought the world should know that piece of information...I hope you
feel enlightened.)
| And now for something completly different, the Links. T-h-e L-i-n-k-s: |
Monty PythonMonty Python's Completely Useless Web SiteMonty Python's Daily Llama Monty Python's Flying Circus Pythonline |
MiscGraham ChapmanMy Review of Terry Jones "Starship Titanic" |
BooksFamilies and How to Survive Themby Robin Skynner and John Cleese Synopsis Written in an unconventional dialogue form, this book explores the inner workings of the modern family, and the interactions between couples and their children. I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again 4 Life and How to Survive It by Robin Skynner and John Cleese Synopsis This text seeks to act as a "map" to guide people through their everyday lives and help them retain their individuality while co-operating in joint endeavours. It also explores the nature of competition and sportsmanship, of humour in relation to health, and of change and how to cope with it. Monty Python's Flying Circus The Complete Fawlty Towers Synopsis What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the Great Wedding Anniversary disaster? This book presents the scripts for the show's classic episodes. The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Bo A Liar's Autobiography A Pocketful of Python Vol 2 A Pocketful of Python Vol 3 A Pocketful of Python Vol 4 John Cleese at the Beeb Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python by The Pythons Monty Python's Big Red Book The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman The Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" |