John Cleese Audio & Video

The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it's a learnable, improvable skill.

Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American re-wrote the rules of comedy.

John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp, irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA.

John Cleese stopped by the Google NYC office to further discuss So, Anyway... a book chronicling the early life of his career.

This ground-breaking cult series, which began in 1969, is perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy absurdity. This "best of" disc contains some of its most legendary sketches: the dead parrot, the Ministry of Silly Walks. The Lumberjack Song, And Now for Something Completely Different and many more.