According to the (UK) Times, John Cleese is retiring from comedy.
“I’m too tired to write new comedy,” the Monty Python star told The Times in a rare interview. “I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.”
Cleese, 66, will act as a “comedy professor”, holding masterclasses with students. Their set text will be insights gleaned from a lifetime in the business of making people laugh.
Cleese compliments Ricky Gervais and Eddie Izzard, and calls Bill Hicks a genius. He also mentions that he’s not in “Casino Royale,” (neither is his character, Q), and plugs the release of a World Cup meets Fawlty Towers single called “Don’t Mention the World Cup.”
Related from TSOYA: “Fawlty Towers Revisited” Interview with Author Lars Holm (MP3)