# John Cleese - 76 Years Old Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920 "2015-10-28T00:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/1 "2015-10-28T00:29:38Z")
Happy Birthday, (soon to be) Sir Cleese! Please keep living! Post your favorites! Stoning: [- YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/2 "2015-10-28T00:38:08Z")
[On stupidity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVPdyYeaQU) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/3 "2015-10-28T01:31:57Z")
What’s all this then? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/4 "2015-10-28T03:28:02Z")
You started it! :mad: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/5 "2015-10-28T03:40:05Z")
[Lancelot attacking the castle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJoM7V54T-c) is probably my favorite. The endless running over the hill kills me every time. The first time I saw the move I was probably 13 or 14, and I laughed at that scene until I cried. I still love it. I also love Cleese’s appearance on _Cheers_ as a psychiatrist giving Sam and Diane premarital advice. At one point, Diane says to Cleese’s character, “You are the wisest man I have ever met.” Cleese responds, “High praise indeed.” The Cleesian deadpan delivery is just awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Imogene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@Imogene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imogene)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/6 "2015-10-28T03:46:37Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Happy Birthday, (soon to be) Sir Cleese! Please keep living! > > Post your favorites! > > Stoning: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk) Brilliant sense of humor, Happy Birthday John. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/7 "2015-10-28T04:35:59Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Happy Birthday, (soon to be) Sir Cleese! Please keep living! > > Post your favorites! > > Stoning: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk) Sir _Cleese_? Sir John Cleese, or Sir John. Not Sir Cleese. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/8 "2015-10-28T11:41:42Z")
I just heard his voice on a couple of edpisodes of Carttoon Network’s odd series _Over the Garden Wall_. He’s done some interesting serious stuff. I recall seeing him playing Petruchio in a TV adaptation of _Taming of the Shrew_ (technically a comedy,but miles away from his usual stuff). He played a professor in the otherwise awful remake of _The Day the Earth Stood Still_, taking the Same Jaffe/Albert Einstein role. And he was Professor Waldmann to Kenneth Branaugh in the latter’s _Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein_. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/9 "2015-10-28T23:49:30Z")
This interview with him, by Adam Savage, is possibly one of the most interesting interviews I’ve ever seen. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uYaDx2Zxlqg/hqdefault.jpg "UNCUT John Cleese - Monty Python Actor and Comedian | 11.17.2014") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYaDx2Zxlqg) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/10 "2015-10-29T01:56:22Z")
[“_Nearly_ headless? How can you be _nearly_ headless?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ndps6mOroI) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/11 "2015-10-29T02:40:16Z")
Happy Birthday indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920/12 "2015-10-29T03:11:20Z")
[I fondly recall his Schweppes ads.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELHVTonLHo) They always cracked me up. [Especially the straight tonic commercials. They get more and more absurdist as they go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z82QibdzFbY)