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In this rollicking memoir, so, anyway, cleese takes listeners on a grand tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a. John cleese s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations. In the late 1960s, he cofounded monty python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show monty pythons flying circus. John cleeses excellent memoir so, anyway discusses the cleese family, cleeses time as a school teacher, getting started in writing for stage and eventually tv and film, his romance with connie booth, and the genesis and recent happenings of the pythons. I know this book is supposed to be an autobiography, cleese explodes on page 305, but the fact is that most of you dont give a tinkers cuss for me as a human being or feel for the.
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