The return of Flowery Twats

[Nearly Sane]

Do not have a good feeling about this


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839

[BeRational]

I am not sure it will work today.

[Aruntraveller]

This:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/08/why-the-fawlty-towers-remake-is-a-truly-nauseating-idea-john-cleese

[Nearly Sane]

This:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/08/why-the-fawlty-towers-remake-is-a-truly-nauseating-idea-john-cleese

Sort of but there is tedious idiocy in the article such as this 'moments of deliberate insensitivity that modern audiences quite rightly find unappealing'.

[Steve H]

Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

[Nearly Sane]

Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

Dear Dawkins, I hope being a curmudgeon doesn't mean one can't be funny!

[Sebastian Toe]

Dear Dawkins, I hope being a curmudgeon doesn't mean one can't be funny!

I don't belieeeeeeeeeeeeve it!

[jeremyp]

Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

That about sums it up for me.

[Nearly Sane]

Clive James wrote something like that the genius in Fawlty Towers was that it put an individual who was uniquely unsuited to running a hotel in Fawlty's position. The update surely needs to move from the hotel. Given Cleese's age one suspects a home of some sort. Difficult for Basil to be unique there.

[Dicky Underpants]

Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

According to some of the Pythons, there was always a lot of Basil in the original Cleese (no matter what Cleese himself says about the origins of the character). It was, as you suggest, his presence among other brilliant characters that made the original series such a success. The present day Cleese and his daughter as the main characters of a new series - heaven forfend!

[Dicky Underpants]

Cleese .... is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

And is all set to host a GB News show.