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The Comedy World Has Been Waiting to Talk About How Much Tony Hinchcliffe Sucks
Alyson Lewis
October 29, 2024
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Monty Python legend/old man yelling out cloud John Cleese recently appeared on BBC One’s Morning Live to promote the stage revival of Fawlty Towers that’s currently playing in London. Cleese doesn’t act in the play, but he scripted the adaptation, hence why it’s billed as “John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers” (an unforgivable act of Connie Booth erasure).
Cleese also took the opportunity to discuss the production of the original series, specifically how it was as stressful and chaotic as Basil Fawlty’s hotel. “There wasn’t time to hang around — we had two hours to record that show,” Cleese recalled. “We started at 8 and finished at 10, and if it wasn’t in the can, there wasn’t an ending to the show.”
The 36th season of The Simpsons has been remarkably solid so far, vindicating those fans who didn’t bail on the show due to a perceived dip in quality, or because of Matt Groening’s “radical right-wing” politics.
This past Sunday’s “Shoddy Heat,” which parodied the steamy ‘80s neo-noir Body Heat, was no exception. The enjoyable one-off mystery found Lisa and Bart investigating a cold case involving Grampa Simpson’s missing partner from back to the days when he was a (surprisingly well-endowed) private detective.
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