Fawlty Towers

[stratman323]

Fawlty Towers. Iconic. As unlikley to return as Pink Floyd, right? Must be true - Cleese has said so many times over the years. As he said, Shakespeare only gave us 2 1/2 hours of Macbeth but he gave us 6 hours of Basil.

Erm...

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla

John Cleese will write and star in the revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

www.bbc.co.uk

Brilliant idea? Or unwise to mess with a legend?

 

[wooders]

Leave it be

 

[Dadocaster]

Could be good.

 

[muttonbuster]

How about a shared universe with The Young Ones. Put Vyvyan on there and I'll watch it.

 

[stratman323]

Well I've paid good money to sit in a theatre to hear Cleese talk about his book & slag off his ex wife. So I guess I will watch it...

 

[Bazz Jass]

40+ years without touching it.

Leave it be John. Leave it be...

History has proved you didn't get funnier.

 

[Mansonienne]

I fear this will end badly... as it always does with Basil...

 

[stratman323]

50 years without touching it.

Leave it be John. Leave it be...

History has proved you didn't get funnier.

His last wife left him down to his last million, hence The Alimony Tour, which I saw. Imagine being down to your last million?



Still, at least he isn't bitter about it.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

A show where the main character is a man who thinks he knows better than everybody else and is constantly put in his place by those he considers "beneath" him.

Cheaper than therapy, I guess.

 

[stratman323]

A show where the main character is a man who thinks he knows better than everybody else and is constantly put in his place by those he considers "beneath" him.

Cheaper than therapy, I guess.

Isn't comedy always cheaper than therapy? Unless Ticketmaster sell you the tickets, of course...

I'm still not sure what point you're making?

 

[guitarchaeologist]

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla

John Cleese will write and star in the revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

www.bbc.co.uk

Brilliant idea? Or unwise to mess with a legend?

IDK, but I do know Camilla Cleese would be a great villain name.
Austin Powers vs Camilla Cleese in The Spy who shagged a Potato... Raw.

They even have an evil cat that could co-star in the role of Mr. Bigglesworth...

 

[HazyPurple]

What I liked was, it was quick fire humour.

I'll watch it, just so long as I don't have to pay for it.

 

[stratman323]

What I liked was, it was quick fire humour.

I'll watch it, just so long as I don't have to pay for it.

Fawlty Towers? Depends what you mean. The laughs came quickly but those scripts were immaculately crafted & took a long time to write.

 

[stratman323]

IDK, but I do know Camilla Cleese would be a great villain name.
Austin Powers vs Camilla Cleese in The Spy who shagged a Potato... Raw.

They even have an evil cat that could co-star in the role of Mr. Bigglesworth...
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Would you take the same view if the family hadn't changed their name at some point in the past? Does Camilla Cheese sound like a Bond villain? Or a cartoon character to promote Cheddar?

 

[somebodyelseuk]

Fawlty Towers. Iconic. As unlikley to return as Pink Floyd, right? Must be true - Cleese has said so many times over the years. As he said, Shakespeare only gave us 2 1/2 hours of Macbeth but he gave us 6 hours of Basil.

Erm...

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla

John Cleese will write and star in the revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

www.bbc.co.uk

Brilliant idea? Or unwise to mess with a legend?

Hmm?
Problem is, the things that made Fawlty Towers funny are considered "offensive" today. Take them away and what's left?

Led Zeppelin were never the same without Bonzo...

 

[PonyB]

When I was a lad near Detroit, Fawlty Towers was an oasis in a sea of banal American fare.
With Cleese's talent he ought to create a new character instead of revisiting the past IMO.

 

[Number Three]

Hmm?
Problem is, the things that made Fawlty Towers funny are considered "offensive" today. Take them away and what's left?

Led Zeppelin were never the same without Bonzo...

Imagine trying to pitch Little Britain today??

 

[stratman323]

Imagine trying to pitch Little Britain today??

Actually it's not Little Britain that's the problem so much as it's successor, Come Fly With Me. Matt Lucas played my two favorite characters, Jamaican coffee seller Precious & Taaj, where Lucas totally nailed that unusual Pakistani/Bradford accent. I remember watching it & thinking "Oh is it now OK again for white actors to play blackface characters?". But he played these characters with real affection & accurate accents.

Then, a couple of years ago, people who clearly didn't watch it first time round, decided it was racist & it's been taken off streaming services. I wonder about this. Is this the sort of sketch that two white racists would make?

"I prefer English food, ya get me, like pizza or Chinese"

 

[Mouse]

I’ll definitely watch it out of sheer curiosity but I’m keeping my expectations low. At worst, it’ll be fun to revisit that universe again.

 

[wooders]

A show where the main character is a man who thinks he knows better than everybody else and is constantly put in his place by those he considers "beneath" him.

Cheaper than therapy, I guess.

He'd fit in well at ST