A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

Pigs in Space Part II From “The Muppet Show” (1978). | John Cleese

Emmy Award-winning actor, comedy icon and author John Cleese will make his Wynn Las Vegas debut on November 1 & 2 with a two-night special! Tickets to see the star of Monty Python, Family Matters, A Fish Called Wanda and much more LIVE in Las Vegas are on sale now! | John Cleese

😂🇬🇧🏨💡 Timeless British Comedy Gold This isn’t just any sitcom scene — it’s Fawlty Towers at its outrageous best. Basil is showing an Australian guest to her room after a long trip 🧳. The bathroom light isn’t working 💡, and while she stretches her neck against the wall 🙆‍♀️, Basil reaches around the corner… and mistakes her breast for the light switch. 😳 At that very moment, Sybil walks in 🚪—and the chaos is pure comic perfection. 🎬 Written by John Cleese & Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers

1975: #OnThisDay 50 years ago Fawlty Towers opened its doors to guests. Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who were also a married couple at the time, the pair discuss Basil Fawlty’s irrepressible character and how the development of Basil and his wife Sybil felt like therapy at times. Additional contributions are provided by broadcasters Alan Coren and Anthony Jay. Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 20 February 1975. | BBC Archive