John Cleese, Neil Innes, Barry Cryer and Friends at Bristol's Colston Hall
Posted on: 20 Jul 2016Colston Hall in Bristol will host the event of a life-time as incredible artists from the world of comedy and music come together to help raise funds for a cause close to their hearts’ Bristol’s Slapstick Festival on Thursday 29 September 2016.
Comedy icon, writer, actor and python John Cleeseleads this fine array of outstanding performers for an evening of live comedy and music. John is joined by a smorgasbord of top British comedy talent including; 7th Python, Rutle and Bonzo Neil Innes, King-of-the-one-liners and ‘Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’ star Barry Cryer who will team up with the inimitable Ronnie Golden to perform and delight audiences with music and, we hope, a selection of new parrot jokes.
Comedian, actor, writer and film producer John Cleese is perhaps the most iconic figure in British comedy of the last 50 years. He formed the Monty Python troupe, and together they made Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the surreal and ground-breaking sketch show which gained them worldwide recognition. Cleese went on to make Fawlty Towers, one of the best loved sitcom of all time, and has since written and starred in films such as Clockwise and A Fish Called Wanda, as well as many others.
Cleese was born in 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare, and was schooled Clifton College, Bristol. He attended Cambridge University and was a member of the famed Cambridge Footlights, where he met his future writing partner, Graham Chapman. Together they joined the team behind the Frost Report, which also included Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Eric Idle, and it was working on this programme as a writer and performer that Cleese made his breakthrough.