Please, John Cleese – leave Fawlty Towers alone ✒️ _emilybootle
Cleese’s obsession with cancel culture has already tarnished his reputation – he can’t drag this classic sitcom with himPrunella Scales as Sybil, John Cleese as Basil, Connie Booth as Polly and Andrew Sachs as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, the classic BBC sitcom from the 70s . I watched it on DVD over and over as a teenager – the colour scheme of that falling-down Torquay hotel is etched into my brain – and the thought of it still makes me laugh.
This is precisely why I’m devastated to hear the news that the show – which originally aired over two series between 1975 and 1979 –. Despite having vowed in 2009 that the cast would never film another episode – “we are too old and tired,” Cleese said – Cleese recently met with producers Derrick Rossi and Matthew George along with his daughter Camilla and came out with “an overall concept so good that, a few days later, it won the approval of Rob and Michele Reiner” .
The first is that Cleese has, in recent years, altered his own reputation from a Monty Python comedy great to a slightly noisy dog with a non-existent bone, because he is so terribly worried about the impact of “cancel culture” . He has fully bedded into his anti-woke-warrior role by signing a contract with GB News, where he will present an hour-long show.
The second reason it is a terrible idea is simply that rebooted comedies very rarely work. Good comedy is time-specific – and that’s precisely why it can become immortalised.More on
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