Happy Birthday: John Cleese

John Cleese

Born: October 27, 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK

I think marriage should be like dog licences. I think you should have to renew marriage licences every five years, unless you have children. And I think before you have children you should have to go and pass various tests and get a licence to have a child. Because it’s the most transformative and difficult thing of your life. Far more important [than work]. People don’t understand this, and some people who are highly motivated by work, but when I worked I was always motivated, funnily enough, by the fear of being bad. Because it is so humiliating to make a joke and have no one laugh.

And Now For Something Completely Different 1971 dir. Ian MacNaughton

Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 dir. Terry Gilliam Terry Jones

Life of Brian 1979 dir. Terry Jones Starring Graham Chapman