For the first time ever, in the spring of 2011, comedy legend and "the most senile member of Monty Python" will be bringing his "Alimony Tour” to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre as part of a UK tour.
Best known for his idiosyncratic turns in "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and as Basil Fawlty in "Fawlty Towers," John Cleese will bring his unique comedic perspective to audiences across the UK next year.
Starting in Cambridge on 3rd May 2011, he will then visit Birmingham, Salford, Liverpool, Oxford, Edinburgh on 10th June and finish in Bristol, on 21st June 2011.
Cleese early in his career was a sketch writer for BBC Radio’s Dick Emery Show and then The Frost Report.
He co-wrote and starred in four series of Monty Python and three films and went on to achieve further great success as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with then wife Connie Booth.
After huge UK success John went on to crack the USA with A Fish Called Wanda (which he wrote and starred in with Jamie Lee Curtis).
The late 1990s saw the lanky comedian surface in Bond movie The World is Not Enough and later Die Another Day.
The show will draw on his many years in the limelight and personal interests. Cleese says "it is an evening of well honed anecdotes, psychoanalytical tit-bits, details of recent surgical procedures, and unprovoked attacks on former colleagues, especially Michael Palin."
Tickets (£20-£32.50) are available from the Edinburgh Festival Theatre