Editing Monty Python (section)

=== John Cleese ===
[[File:Dead Parrot O2 Arena.jpg|thumb|right|[[John Cleese]] (right) and Michael Palin performing the "[[Dead Parrot sketch]]" in 2014]]
[[John Cleese]] is the oldest Python. He met his future Python writing partner, Chapman, in Cambridge. Outside of Python, he is best known for setting up the [[Video Arts]] group and for the sitcom ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' (co-written with [[Connie Booth]], whom Cleese met during work on Python and to whom he was married for a decade). In ''Fawlty Towers'' Cleese starred as hotel owner [[Basil Fawlty]], and received the 1980 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance]].<ref>{{cite news |title=See all of John Cleese's BAFTA wins and nominations |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=John%20Cleese |access-date=12 November 2022 |website=BAFTA.org}}</ref> Cleese has also co-authored several books on psychology and wrote the screenplay for the award-winning ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', in which he starred with Michael Palin, and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://people.com/archive/his-love-life-may-be-fawlty-but-john-cleese-is-reeling-in-cash-and-kudos-with-a-fish-called-wanda-vol-30-no-7/ |author= Alexander, Michael |date= 15 August 1988 |title= His Love Life May Be Fawlty, but John Cleese Is Reeling in Cash and Kudos with a Fish Called Wanda |magazine= [[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date= 19 August 2019}}</ref> In ''A Fish Called Wanda'', Cleese went against type, with ''[[PopMatters]]'' magazine stating: "For a generation of fans who grew up with Cleese doing silly walks and mock Hitler salutes with Monty Python, this was something completely different indeed. For the first time, Cleese was being romantic in his role in A Fish Called Wanda."<ref name="PopMatters">{{cite magazine|url= https://www.popmatters.com/john-cleese-romantic-lead-feature|title= Who Thought Monty Python’s John Cleese Could Be a Romantic Lead? |magazine=[[PopMatters]]|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>