Jessica Fernando It`s the best You Tube videos I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with Cleese.
What makes this particularly excellent is that the interviewer is brilliant. Cleese is always good but some of the useless American interviewers ruin it by either being unfunny or making it about themselves or a lovely little combination of both. This interviewer in contrast is funny, intelligent, obviously kind and very curious about, and respectful of, Cleese without being fawning. Thank you both, gentlemen!
@@howcumusuck I guess you haven't seen any codes of rugby, or Australian Rules football, or Gaelic football. The latter two forms of football only wear mouth guards, and aren't bulked up with padding, nor helmets, like American football. I am not saying it's something to be admired, but you seem to admire such things. Post Concussion Syndrome from football is not just an American thing.
@@howcumusuckAmerican football is rugby for fat,lazy pussies. If they weren’t lazy it wouldn’t take 4 hours to get 16 minutes of action, and if they’re not pussies why are they wearing helmets and excessive padding?
I love that Cleese goes out of his way to make Hodgman comfortable. He is clearly aware of his effect on people and behaves very generously towards younger people in the same business.
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@@plekkchand he’s a fantastic comedy writer and he’s highly intelligent and Ivey league educated. You should check out a few of his books. Absolutely hilarious!
I am 72 years now,but I remember when I was 16 and working in London,I used to get on at east croydon,and I charged down the station to jump on this train that took me to work in Bond street,london,cos I was a little late,the old trains had little separate carriages,as I jumped on the train,lo and behold who should be sitting there reading a newspaper,with a suit and bowler hat was john cleese.He had just televised the ministry of silly walks,I was so tempted to do this infront of him for a laugh,but he did have this serious unaproachable look,so I chickened out.He was only about 22 at the time,made my day seeing him!xxx
There is no WAY you were 16 and he was 22! He was almost 31 years old when that was aired. And since you're saying you're 72 which makes you about three years younger than him, you must have been 27/28.
@@Ihy744ppp She was probably just remembering the dates wrong, i.e. thinking it happened earlier in her life when she was younger. I remember when I first discovered imdb in the early 2000s, I discovered a lot of my favorite movies from the 90s were released either a few years earlier or later than I remembered. It totally blew my mind to find out that I probably saw two of my favorite movies of all time, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Batman (1989), for the first time when I was just 3. The Last Crusade is the earliest memory I have that I can put a date on. I remembered a lot from the film despite understanding almost nothing about the Nazis and the Holy Grail/Arthurian myth, and the tank chase scene near the end totally blew my mind as the small child. That and when we saw the film again a few months later when it was at the cheap cinemas (most have closed but they used to be all over the US, I think piracy forcing studios to put movies on DVD quicker had something to do with that too) when I would at that point been 4, I had to run out at the scene when the bad guy drinks from the bad grail then ages to death into a skeleton because it scared me so much the first time.
This is by far the most enjoyable interview I have ever watched. Two genuinly charming people having fun without pomp or excessive adoration. A true delight.
I have watched a *pile* of these relaxed long-format Cleese interviews here on RUclips. This was the most enjoyable of them all, and they have all been enjoyable. Thanks, gentlemen.
Great job by both Johns. Very laid back and funny. I can't help but notice some complaining about Hodgman. Don't be dumb, this is a classic interview. He clearly respects John Cleese and isn't doing anything wrong except occasionally but innocently interrupting. Why nit-pick. He is funny and witty and Cleese is an absolute pleasure to listen to.
@@aussiechris5904 I agree. It's great to see such an iconic and funny person such as Cleese appreciate someone else being funny, with no ego getting in the way.
for a John Cleese interview I think this is one of his best, Mr Cleese has a reputation for being a bad interviewee, personally ive always found him insightful and classless, no pigeon holing this python, the fact his being interviewed by a fan makes it all the more wonderful #lovelightlaughter/Ahoy ;)
Mental Monarchy It`s the best You Tube videos I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with Cleese.
This is one of the best interviews I have seen. Its all the way up there with James Liptons interviews, which I consider top of the top. Kind, lovely, very intelligent, wickedly funny and informative. And its so lovely to go down this memory lane with John Cleese. The only other one that truly matched this one was Cleese with Eric Idle. But what can beat two old friends who have loads of love and admiration for each other and who have known each other for a lifetime? And who are two of the funniest guys in recorded time? THANK YOU
What an amazing, enlightening, and entertaining hour and a half this was to laugh and learn how John Cleese thinks and works. I'm so glad this showed up in my feed.
John Cleese is and always will be numbered among the greatest comedians that ever lived. I've heard that the lowest form of entertainment was comedy. I don't care who that was. It's beyond stupid. It is the most useful form of entertainment. Thanks to all who made us all laugh.
This is great. They're both funny when it is appropriate and thoughtful/insightful when it is appropriate. Few people know how to strike that balance! More than out of any sense of being star-struck, I would love to sit down for a chat with John Cleese simply on the basis of his intelligence and insightfulness. The legitimately interesting person is a rare bird, indeed!
This is probably my favorite Cleese interview, with the exception of the time I got to interview him myself for 20 minutes. It was really more of a conversation, and it was everything you might imagine and wish it to be; It was a strange gift from heaven - I still have no idea how it was possible, but I'm very glad it was. It was not recorded.
How does an intelligent man become a flaming libtard? Three things lead a smart man to libtardation: huge Ego, the propensity to virtue-signal as means of fishing for love, and the recognition of the necessity to kiss the left-wing Establishment's ass for the maintenance of a high-profile show-biz career. After all, Cleese always openly admitted he's up for almost anything as long as the money was right. (So counter to his left-wing leanings though, this mercenary love of money.) And a certain dose of sociopathy, that too. His narcissism is way off the charts.
Next thing you'll be telling me is "you're just JEALOUS". If you can't handle criticism of your gods and idols, you'd better get Prozac, a big pack of them. Your God Cleese is not a perfect being, nor do intelligent men always understand the world. In fact, the term "intellectual moron" suits him perfectly.
TCIASC you must be an american, however criticism must be given and accepted humor is a very objective thing which is why we have so many stand-ups, so many sketches and so on. But there are so many ways to deliver these criticisms and your only seemed to try or should we say attempt to disgrace a individual.
Two incredibly bright...incredibly funny people, allowing us to listen in. John Cleese is a comic legend. Thank yu so much for uploading and sharing this.
Being 74, I am privileged to have experienced the inception and evolution of Monty Python and the genius of all involved. Living that era is one of the joys of my life
IMO, Hodgson was the perfect foil for Cleese. The banter was excellent, and if you remember, John Cleese said something extremely significant -- In the South and in the Mid-West (MY stomping ground), there is a dearth of Irony in our Humor; whereas in England there is nothing but.... I find this to be very useful in public dealings as well. Just a thought -- and a Word To The Wise....
Very perceptive. I moved to Switzerland in 1990 and experienced severe culture shock. The humor I witnessed on Swiss TV was nothing like the self-deprecating humor (perhaps largely Jewish) that I knew from America. Swiss humor seemed very cerebral.
I've been binging on John Cleese interviews etc, on YT, for a week, or two, and this is by far the best (along with another where John's with Eric Idle.).
Cleese is so perceptive, brilliant how he talked with young students about anxiety and how to manage it. I think this is central not only of the performing arts but more widely.
It`s the best You Tube video I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with master Cleese, but he does.
If he’s like my partner whose younger than me, he does the same thing. It’s to get them to say how young he looks. It can backfire when they find out that I’m over 4 years older and look younger than him.
As a child, there was only the radio and I learnt at a very young age the power of imagination. Even now I can remember the faces I put to the characters. Television has taken that away from us.
An entertaining video, with a lot of humor (not to be confused with laughter, which there was also a lot of). Even if you didn't know who either of these men are, it's an enjoyable interview because of their intelligent banter and who isn't a fan of funny? 👍👍2thumbs up!
What I think is exceptional is that someone like John Cleese that does something funny for 1 minute can perhaps bring 10 seconds each of joy for a million people. That is nearly 116 days of enjoyment non-stop 24/7. And much, much, more if you consider that most people recall funny things more easily. That is a amazing gift and we should all try to make people laugh more. Thanks both to John and everyone else that make people laugh!
Such a lovely, entertaining and good-natured chat that celebrates humour and living a life - the counterpoint between British and American is delightfully funny
And now for something completely delightful!!! What a treat! And though I was a big fan of The Daily Show, I have to admit I didn't fully appreciate/recall how brilliantly funny John Hodgman is. Great intro, and a terrific interview. He and Cleese worked very well together! Standing O!
I could listen to these two chat for days on end and it wouldn't be enough. They have great chemistry. Absolutely delightful the whole time, but I absolutely lost it at John's recipe explanation 1:13:26. Not many people could turn something so mundane into something so hilarious. I love his face at 1:14:49 where he's just enjoying the effect his joke had on everyone around him.
John Cleese is so insightful. It is such a good time well spent. I like all of his points he makes about comedy, creativity and the mind. Very very interesting man not to mention the obvious (fall-over-funny).
That went so well. John Hodman is a complete delight and draws some wonderful moments out of Cleese. Really pleasantly surprised by Cleese's whole demeanour here, as i'd come to think of him as rather arrogant and grouchy. A charming conversation
Love the description of the recent show in which they began to be "mischievous". You know, Mr. Cleese, the audience was intimately familiar with the way each sketch historically goes, and when y'all played around, it let them IN with you. It very respectfully acknowledged their deep familiarity with the lore.
Cleese is so kind when he talks about how the rules of comedy have changed. He says he can't do a comedy film about 1776 because the audiences "don't have the information". In other words, what has changed is that audiences are now uneducated morons. But of course, he is gentlemanly enough not to say that.
What John Hodgman is too gentlemanly to point out, even though he clearly wants to, is that this old man fundamentally doesn't understand modern media and he's so stuck in the past ranting about not getting on the "television" and how important radio is that he doesn't realize there's about 50 digital media companies who would jump at a chance to make anything John Cleese wanted to and that *Comedy Central had successful six season show running at this time about historical period-comedy that started as a RUclips series.* Average IQ has risen by 7-10 points between the 1970's and today. Audiences aren't dumber, movie distribution has fundamentally changed because technology did. Movies need to be spectacles or else they'll flop because the only competitive advantage they offer over streaming services is a giant screen, d-box seats, and 25 point surround sound.
Kindness it's not. Cleese subscribes to a Commonwealth school of thought which holds that 90% of humanity is too fucking stupid for words. What you're conflating with kindness is simply understated British sarcasm. No kindness involved.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Maybe not. There's a reason that Cleese doesn't appear on mass American media; it's the same reason that Fawlty Towers didn't become available to the American public until at least a decade after it was made - everyone with a financial stake in presenting him to Americans is afraid of his humor. He has historically been savage in his disrespect for the upper classes in Britain. Can you imagine what he'd do with the blank palette of lowest common denominator American culture? Indie producers would work with him, but no one in the final common pathway of American entertainment would risk loosing his intellect and wit on the American boobocracy. It would be like a cross between Oscar Wilde and Russell Brand with a noseful of coke.
Imagine drinking and joking with Cleese, Chapman, Cook etc., and then there was Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett and then there was Marty Feldman. What a lot of talent. And as for Jonathan Miller: his were some of the best lectures during premed at University College London. Those were great times!
Brilliant interview of a supreme comic talent!!! It was enlightening to get so many inside details about John’s amazing career in comedy. He is every bit as funny and witty now, as when he was in the cast of Monty Python’s Fkying Circus and later Fawkty Towers. His sense of humor has improved with age, and he is still an an incredible comedic talent! His insights are thought provoking and very entertaining. He is a master showman and a brilliant humorist! Your interviewing style enhanced the entire show, and added to the enjoyment by all of us in the audience.Bravo to you both!!!
After all these years, I just realized that the Cheese Shop is essentially a sketch version of the Mari Lwyd tradition. Thanks for a sweet interview, John and John.
absolutely wonderful, My love for Monty Python especially Life of Brian got me thru sad and lonely times, much like Mr Cleese's stuffed animal collection, his last lines topped this interview for me,
The Pythons were a big part of my young world growing up. Both them and Pete and Dud. Comedy though is like music it's very expansive and very fluid and changes with each generation that comes along. It's very personal too, what one person finds funny another may not. Again like music it has the ability to carry you through very difficult periods in your life, transporting you away from certain realities for a while , subsequently making them more bearable. It also has the ability to unite people and bring down barriers. Laughter is such a great tonic. As well as creating a release, it also produces those chemicals that make us feel contented.
Brings to mind.........."As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good---I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other." Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)
Not that 75 is old these days but, i love that his mind is sharp and quick thinking. His memory is so much better than mine and I’m 50. Although he’s a little hard of hearing, he doesn’t need glasses for far away and most impressive is he doesn’t need reading glasses. The majority of people have lost some up vision by the time they are 55ish.
John Hodgeman was terrific. This is one of the best Cleese interviews I have ever seen.
Wow, that was easily the best interview I've ever seen with John Cleese. The interviewer was very funny and quite good at his craft.
Cleese was impressed, chuffed, and most importantly, disgusted, which is always the way you should handle Graham Chapman.
Eric Idle’s interview of Cleese is also great.
75 and he has given me 40 years of laughter. Man thanks, John Cleaves.
Cleese. That's funny, no?
@@johnwilsdon5456 Cleave cloves' cloven cleft!
Brilliant host, brilliant guest. Thank you for a lovely break from the world.
Jessica Fernando It`s the best You Tube videos I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with Cleese.
Especially now.
Your comment’s relevance grows with the year. Tip of the cap 🧢
1:18:11 my only critique is that he cut him off here, I think Cleese was about to say something important
@@CamRebireshost was good but trying a little too hard to be funny at times. But he got funnier.
What makes this particularly excellent is that the interviewer is brilliant. Cleese is always good but some of the useless American interviewers ruin it by either being unfunny or making it about themselves or a lovely little combination of both. This interviewer in contrast is funny, intelligent, obviously kind and very curious about, and respectful of, Cleese without being fawning. Thank you both, gentlemen!
Couldn’t agree more!! ☺️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"It's called american football because nobody else plays it"
So brilliant
It's played in only one place because few can handle full contact chess, Little Daffodil.
@@howcumusuck I guess you haven't seen any codes of rugby, or Australian Rules football, or Gaelic football. The latter two forms of football only wear mouth guards, and aren't bulked up with padding, nor helmets, like American football. I am not saying it's something to be admired, but you seem to admire such things. Post Concussion Syndrome from football is not just an American thing.
@@howcumusuckAmerican football is rugby for fat,lazy pussies.
If they weren’t lazy it wouldn’t take 4 hours to get 16 minutes of action, and if they’re not pussies why are they wearing helmets and excessive padding?
Hodgeman wears Dingo boots!
A 10 out of 10 interview. No, it was a chat. And a performance. Loved it 💓🤝🇳🇱
Thank you John and John for a delightful time
Thanks john! Love Jon
I love that Cleese goes out of his way to make Hodgman comfortable. He is clearly aware of his effect on people and behaves very generously towards younger people in the same business.
It helps that Hodgman is also a comedy genius. Respect!
@@shellyhill6804 You have quite low standards.
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@@plekkchand he’s a fantastic comedy writer and he’s highly intelligent and Ivey league educated. You should check out a few of his books. Absolutely hilarious!
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I am 72 years now,but I remember when I was 16 and working in London,I used to get on at east croydon,and I charged down the station to jump on this train that took me to work in Bond street,london,cos I was a little late,the old trains had little separate carriages,as I jumped on the train,lo and behold who should be sitting there reading a newspaper,with a suit and bowler hat was john cleese.He had just televised the ministry of silly walks,I was so tempted to do this infront of him for a laugh,but he did have this serious unaproachable look,so I chickened out.He was only about 22 at the time,made my day seeing him!xxx
Your walk had not become any sillier.
There is no WAY you were 16 and he was 22! He was almost 31 years old when that was aired. And since you're saying you're 72 which makes you about three years younger than him, you must have been 27/28.
I also used to get on at East Croydon when I was 16. Was never lucky enough to see JC.
sandra mccarthy That would have been in 1960 so no.
@@Ihy744ppp She was probably just remembering the dates wrong, i.e. thinking it happened earlier in her life when she was younger. I remember when I first discovered imdb in the early 2000s, I discovered a lot of my favorite movies from the 90s were released either a few years earlier or later than I remembered. It totally blew my mind to find out that I probably saw two of my favorite movies of all time, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Batman (1989), for the first time when I was just 3.
The Last Crusade is the earliest memory I have that I can put a date on. I remembered a lot from the film despite understanding almost nothing about the Nazis and the Holy Grail/Arthurian myth, and the tank chase scene near the end totally blew my mind as the small child. That and when we saw the film again a few months later when it was at the cheap cinemas (most have closed but they used to be all over the US, I think piracy forcing studios to put movies on DVD quicker had something to do with that too) when I would at that point been 4, I had to run out at the scene when the bad guy drinks from the bad grail then ages to death into a skeleton because it scared me so much the first time.
This is by far the most enjoyable interview I have ever watched. Two genuinly charming people having fun without pomp or excessive adoration. A true delight.
I have watched a *pile* of these relaxed long-format Cleese interviews here on RUclips. This was the most enjoyable of them all, and they have all been enjoyable. Thanks, gentlemen.
Great job by both Johns. Very laid back and funny. I can't help but notice some complaining about Hodgman. Don't be dumb, this is a classic interview. He clearly respects John Cleese and isn't doing anything wrong except occasionally but innocently interrupting. Why nit-pick. He is funny and witty and Cleese is an absolute pleasure to listen to.
Hodgeman is not as experienced, but seemed obvious to me that Cleese enjoyed his contributions
@@aussiechris5904 I agree. It's great to see such an iconic and funny person such as Cleese appreciate someone else being funny, with no ego getting in the way.
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for a John Cleese interview I think this is one of his best, Mr Cleese has a reputation for being a bad interviewee, personally ive always found him insightful and classless, no pigeon holing this python, the fact his being interviewed by a fan makes it all the more wonderful #lovelightlaughter/Ahoy ;)
"Do you realize, just how much joy you have brought to so many people?"
"NOPE!"
Best answer!
That was literally the most delightful thing I've seen on YT in a very long time.
Mental Monarchy I know those two should work together on a project. Their collaboration would be on par with young Cleese and Chapman.
Mental Monarchy It`s the best You Tube videos I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with Cleese.
I love that he's very good at making people laugh but isn't snobby or selective about what he finds funny
This is one of the best interviews I have seen. Its all the way up there with James Liptons interviews, which I consider top of the top. Kind, lovely, very intelligent, wickedly funny and informative. And its so lovely to go down this memory lane with John Cleese. The only other one that truly matched this one was Cleese with Eric Idle. But what can beat two old friends who have loads of love and admiration for each other and who have known each other for a lifetime? And who are two of the funniest guys in recorded time? THANK YOU
This is incredibly great. And I cannot tell you how shocked I am how good Hodgman was. What fabulous insights.
Great chat. I was going to leave it on in the background but it was so good i had to sit down and watch.
What an amazing, enlightening, and entertaining hour and a half this was to laugh and learn how John Cleese thinks and works. I'm so glad this showed up in my feed.
John Cleese is and always will be numbered among the greatest comedians that ever lived. I've heard that the lowest form of entertainment was comedy. I don't care who that was. It's beyond stupid. It is the most useful form of entertainment. Thanks to all who made us all laugh.
John Cleese, like some of his contemporaries, is an English treasure.
This is great. They're both funny when it is appropriate and thoughtful/insightful when it is appropriate. Few people know how to strike that balance! More than out of any sense of being star-struck, I would love to sit down for a chat with John Cleese simply on the basis of his intelligence and insightfulness. The legitimately interesting person is a rare bird, indeed!
Always wonderful to hear Mr. Cleese talk about absolutely anything
He could have his own university course on nothing, leading to have "nothing" as ones major.
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Poor old Cleese he's becoming what he used to mock
I always get the feeling from his interviews that he doesn't like fanbois.
I came for John Cleese and stayed for John Hodgman. What a great conversation.
This is probably my favorite Cleese interview, with the exception of the time I got to interview him myself for 20 minutes. It was really more of a conversation, and it was everything you might imagine and wish it to be; It was a strange gift from heaven - I still have no idea how it was possible, but I'm very glad it was. It was not recorded.
The interviewer is absolutely brilliant! The other guy was pretty good too
Ahhh…John Cleese…love the man…and the idea of doing theater on radio is something I would really enjoy.
So cool to see John Cleese laugh at Hodgman. One legend appreciating another younger legend. They're so thoughtful and masters of their craft.
What an absolute delight. I grinned like a loon from beginning to end.
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John, we have a particular type of humour in Britain but I don't think we're all gloomy!
How does an intelligent man become a flaming libtard?
Three things lead a smart man to libtardation: huge Ego, the propensity to virtue-signal as means of fishing for love, and the recognition of the necessity to kiss the left-wing Establishment's ass for the maintenance of a high-profile show-biz career. After all, Cleese always
openly admitted he's up for almost anything as long as the money was
right. (So counter to his left-wing leanings though, this mercenary love of money.)
And a certain dose of sociopathy, that too. His narcissism is way off
the charts.
Next thing you'll be telling me is "you're just JEALOUS". If you can't handle criticism of your gods and idols, you'd better get Prozac, a big pack of them. Your God Cleese is not a perfect being, nor do intelligent men always understand the world. In fact, the term "intellectual moron" suits him perfectly.
TCIASC you must be an american, however criticism must be given and accepted humor is a very objective thing which is why we have so many stand-ups, so many sketches and so on.
But there are so many ways to deliver these criticisms and your only seemed to try or should we say attempt to disgrace a individual.
Loved the show…thanks so much.
Two incredibly bright...incredibly funny people, allowing us to listen in. John Cleese is a comic legend. Thank yu so much for uploading and sharing this.
Cleese is just a genius comedian that we don’t see often at all anymore…
The host is no slouch either!
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Great interview. and that rarest of rare things, a great interviewer.
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Being 74, I am privileged to have experienced the inception and evolution of Monty Python and the genius of all involved. Living that era is one of the joys of my life
What makes some things funny is the fact that it's a surprise that doesn't hurt.
This is what I always say about Cricket ... love to see that I am not the only one thinking like this. Honored to be in line with John Cleese ...
One of the best interviews ever. Thank you.
How could a story about preparing corn flakes be so entertaining? Bless you, sir.
Yep that was so funny. Cleese is much less anxious than the host, but he started to relax after a while and got funnier.
Even more excellent than I thought it was going to be! Cleese is outrageously funny, as usual! Continue through the entire length of this!
I honestly thought I'd watch like 5 minutes of this. Watched the whole thing. Great show.
Same thing happened to me.
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Excellent! Loved it. Thx for sharing.
IMO, Hodgson was the perfect foil for Cleese. The banter was excellent, and if you remember, John Cleese said something extremely significant -- In the South and in the Mid-West (MY stomping ground), there is a dearth of Irony in our Humor; whereas in England there is nothing but....
I find this to be very useful in public dealings as well.
Just a thought -- and a Word To The Wise....
Very perceptive. I moved to Switzerland in 1990 and experienced severe culture shock. The humor I witnessed on Swiss TV was nothing like the self-deprecating humor (perhaps largely Jewish) that I knew from America. Swiss humor seemed very cerebral.
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We used to be funny in the UK, the ability to laugh at ourselves was one of the best things about us. That ability has been lost.
Wonderful and silly conversation. Very enjoyable
How could there be 11 dislikes? No souls? John Cleese is a master!
Some people do not understand irony, or like the Goons and Pythons, sheer ridiculousness.
Outstanding interview.
I've been binging on John Cleese interviews etc, on YT, for a week, or two, and this is by far the best (along with another where John's with Eric Idle.).
You're a great entertainer Mr. Cleese.
Thank you for making myself and millions of others laugh for so many year's.
Wonderful interview
What a wonderful interview. Thank you so much.
Cleese is so perceptive, brilliant how he talked with young students about anxiety and how to manage it. I think this is central not only of the performing arts but more widely.
It`s the best You Tube video I`ve ever seen. Must confess not familiar with John Hodgen, but that will change really soon. He`s insanely funny. It`s not easy to hold your own with master Cleese, but he does.
My Dad is 83. Ever since he was 75 he has insisted on telling everyone he meets his age. It seems to be a right of passage.
If he’s like my partner whose younger than me, he does the same thing. It’s to get them to say how young he looks. It can backfire when they find out that I’m over 4 years older and look younger than him.
As for John Cleese..A legend and so few left
I was in the 2nd row, I had a such a great time hearing my favorite comedy idle talk. I sat right behind Wyatt Cenac.
You are so lucky!!!
My favourite comedy idol is Eric idle. A play on words, there.
Great interview with Cleese. Amazing chemistry between the two
As a child, there was only the radio and I learnt at a very young age the power of imagination. Even now I can remember the faces I put to the characters. Television has taken that away from us.
Did your parents really name you Justin Case?
An entertaining video, with a lot of humor (not to be confused with laughter, which there was also a lot of). Even if you didn't know who either of these men are, it's an enjoyable interview because of their intelligent banter and who isn't a fan of funny? 👍👍2thumbs up!
Great stuff... they bounced their humor off each other, without stealing the limelight...
What I think is exceptional is that someone like John Cleese that does something funny for 1 minute can perhaps bring 10 seconds each of joy for a million people. That is nearly 116 days of enjoyment non-stop 24/7. And much, much, more if you consider that most people recall funny things more easily. That is a amazing gift and we should all try to make people laugh more. Thanks both to John and everyone else that make people laugh!
Cleese's banter with Hodgman at 33 minutes about American sport is great!
Such a lovely, entertaining and good-natured chat that celebrates humour and living a life - the counterpoint between British and American is delightfully funny
Every time this appears in my suggested I have to listen to Cleese's explanation of why jokes are funny. Such insight!
This was the most perfect interview Ive ever seen, ever
12:32 Imagine being able to make John Cleese laugh that hard. What a feeling that would be.
Gotta love John Cleese! He's quite perceptive, which makes him a great conversation partner for all kinds of topics.
They missed the opportunity to ask Cleese, the most important question of all: how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away ?
Binoculars ?
And now for something completely delightful!!! What a treat! And though I was a big fan of The Daily Show, I have to admit I didn't fully appreciate/recall how brilliantly funny John Hodgman is. Great intro, and a terrific interview. He and Cleese worked very well together! Standing O!
I could listen to these two chat for days on end and it wouldn't be enough. They have great chemistry.
Absolutely delightful the whole time, but I absolutely lost it at John's recipe explanation 1:13:26. Not many people could turn something so mundane into something so hilarious. I love his face at 1:14:49 where he's just enjoying the effect his joke had on everyone around him.
so good to come across in 2021
John Cleese is so insightful. It is such a good time well spent. I like all of his points he makes about comedy, creativity and the mind. Very very interesting man not to mention the obvious (fall-over-funny).
That went so well. John Hodman is a complete delight and draws some wonderful moments out of Cleese. Really pleasantly surprised by Cleese's whole demeanour here, as i'd come to think of him as rather arrogant and grouchy. A charming conversation
' Cheese Shoppe ' has always been one of my favorite sketches, also.
Love the description of the recent show in which they began to be "mischievous". You know, Mr. Cleese, the audience was intimately familiar with the way each sketch historically goes, and when y'all played around, it let them IN with you. It very respectfully acknowledged their deep familiarity with the lore.
"And that is why now you hate me." This is one of the best considered introductions of a star speaker.
"very gentle lover" - that was funny!! great interview.
Few things are more delightful than John Cleese cracking (himself) up.
John Cleese is an absolute comedy legend and the man is a REALIST😇
John Cleese always makes me smile x
Cleese is so kind when he talks about how the rules of comedy have changed. He says he can't do a comedy film about 1776 because the audiences "don't have the information". In other words, what has changed is that audiences are now uneducated morons. But of course, he is gentlemanly enough not to say that.
What John Hodgman is too gentlemanly to point out, even though he clearly wants to, is that this old man fundamentally doesn't understand modern media and he's so stuck in the past ranting about not getting on the "television" and how important radio is that he doesn't realize there's about 50 digital media companies who would jump at a chance to make anything John Cleese wanted to and that *Comedy Central had successful six season show running at this time about historical period-comedy that started as a RUclips series.*
Average IQ has risen by 7-10 points between the 1970's and today. Audiences aren't dumber, movie distribution has fundamentally changed because technology did. Movies need to be spectacles or else they'll flop because the only competitive advantage they offer over streaming services is a giant screen, d-box seats, and 25 point surround sound.
uneducated doesn't make them morons,they are learning what is taught them same as you did
I think he'd delight in calling them morons.
Kindness it's not. Cleese subscribes to a Commonwealth school of thought which holds that 90% of humanity is too fucking stupid for words. What you're conflating with kindness is simply understated British sarcasm. No kindness involved.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Maybe not. There's a reason that Cleese doesn't appear on mass American media; it's the same reason that Fawlty Towers didn't become available to the American public until at least a decade after it was made - everyone with a financial stake in presenting him to Americans is afraid of his humor. He has historically been savage in his disrespect for the upper classes in Britain. Can you imagine what he'd do with the blank palette of lowest common denominator American culture? Indie producers would work with him, but no one in the final common pathway of American entertainment would risk loosing his intellect and wit on the American boobocracy. It would be like a cross between Oscar Wilde and Russell Brand with a noseful of coke.
I enjoyed this so much, it got to the level of inspiration. And this very rarley happens.
Imagine drinking and joking with Cleese, Chapman, Cook etc., and then there was Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett and then there was Marty Feldman. What a lot of talent. And as for Jonathan Miller: his were some of the best lectures during premed at University College London. Those were great times!
Two books mentioned are: Laughter- An Essay On The Meaning Of The Comic by Henri Bergson, The Act Of Creation by Arthur Koestler
Well remembered! Thanks! Gonna go find them!
The Bergson piece is very good! I need to find the Koestler...
Those are some amazing Johns
John Cleese is one of the smartest people on the planet, ever....
Yay! So glad I found this. xxx
The best! Both of these John's are inspirational.
Brilliant interview of a supreme comic talent!!!
It was enlightening to get so many inside details about John’s amazing career in comedy. He is every bit as funny and witty now, as when he was
in the cast of Monty Python’s Fkying Circus and later Fawkty Towers. His sense of humor has
improved with age, and he is still an an
incredible comedic talent! His insights are
thought provoking and very entertaining.
He is a master showman and a brilliant
humorist! Your interviewing style enhanced the
entire show, and added to the enjoyment by
all of us in the audience.Bravo to you both!!!
Great interview , and such a sweet ending .
One of the best chats with Cleese IMHO.
John Hodgman was amazing in this, and John Cleese, so much class and generosity! Félicitations!
My god when he started speaking English, English. Couldnt understand a word but I love it.
After all these years, I just realized that the Cheese Shop is essentially a sketch version of the Mari Lwyd tradition.
Thanks for a sweet interview, John and John.
absolutely wonderful, My love for Monty Python especially Life of Brian got me thru sad and lonely times, much like Mr Cleese's stuffed animal collection, his last lines topped this interview for me,
Life Of Brian nailed it.
The Pythons were a big part of my young world growing up. Both them and Pete and Dud. Comedy though is like music it's very expansive and very fluid and changes with each generation that comes along. It's very personal too, what one person finds funny another may not.
Again like music it has the ability to carry you through very difficult periods in your life, transporting you away from certain realities for a while , subsequently making them more bearable. It also has the ability to unite people and bring down barriers.
Laughter is such a great tonic. As well as creating a release, it also produces those chemicals that make us feel contented.
Brings to mind.........."As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good---I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other."
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)
Not that 75 is old these days but, i love that his mind is sharp and quick thinking. His memory is so much better than mine and I’m 50. Although he’s a little hard of hearing, he doesn’t need glasses for far away and most impressive is he doesn’t need reading glasses.
The majority of people have lost some up vision by the time they are 55ish.
The Cheese Shop sketch is utterly brilliant, I listen to it many times every month.
great vid. At 49 minutes he explained what went wrong in opera. This is stuff NYC should be doing more. Great show.
Funny man, However... SIMPLY A GENIOUS. Enjoy being entertained by him. Always made me Smile!!!🙏💯♥️