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Ratings6
Average rating3.8
This was such a wonderful book. If you can you must listen to this on audiobook. John Cleese reads it and I have a feeling you get a little more out of it that way.
Definitely had a lot interesting facts about John's entry and experience in getting into comedy but I found it a bit too slow but mainly was disappointed in the lack of content covering the Python years, A Fish Called Wanda and Fawlty Towers.
So, first: don't expect anything about MPFC or Fawlty Towers: he barely touches upon either. The surprising thing is, that's OK! This is about John Cleese, his life, who he is. The book is a mix of insightful, tender, funny, spiteful, disjointed, rambling, baffling. In other words, a fair facsimile of a human life. Cleese has enough interesting moments, and has learned enough from them, to make this life worth chronicling. Three stars (not four) because of disjointed narrative and loose ends.