‘Fawlty Towers’ Creator John Cleese Really Doesn’t Understand ‘Fawlty Towers’
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Cracked— By JM McNab Published: April 26th, 2024
The Guardian—John Cleese cut N-word from Fawlty Towers revival because people ‘don’t understand irony’. Speaking at launch for West End adaptation, Cleese complains about literal-minded viewers ‘not playing with a full deck’John Cleese said that he decided to cut the N-word from a scene in his West End Fawlty Towers revival because in contemporary Britain there are too many “literal-minded people” who “don’t understand irony”.Cleese was speaking at the media launch for the West End theatrical adaptation of the classic comedy, which follows a repressed hotelier trying to control his chaotic staff....
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