A top-tier strategy for a top-tier comedy legend. The one and only John Cleese turns 86 today 🎉 | Monty Python

John Cleese on extremism: “The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you." "You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified.” This video was created two decades before Twitter—yet brilliantly explains the psychology of today's extremists who flourish in the age of social media. | Hillel Neuer

John Cleese nailed it. Extremists are so self-righteous. | M.A. Rothman

Fawlty Towers premiered 50 years ago today on the BBC. Half a century later, it still makes me laugh. This is my favorite scene, how many of you have seen it before? 🛎️😤💥🚗 #fawltytowers #ukcomedy #bbc | John Cleese

1975: #OnThisDay 50 years ago Fawlty Towers opened its doors to guests. Written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who were also a married couple at the time, the pair discuss Basil Fawlty’s irrepressible character and how the development of Basil and his wife Sybil felt like therapy at times. Additional contributions are provided by broadcasters Alan Coren and Anthony Jay. Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 20 February 1975. | BBC Archive