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John Cleese's huge comedic effect has extended across decades; his well-defined, irreverent eyes and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem to be written into comedy's DNA. On this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes listeners on the grand travel of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble origins in a sleepy English town and his early on comedic times at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman) to the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that could propel him to worldwide renown. Cleese was just times away from graduating Cambridge and leaving on a laws profession when he was been to by two BBC executives who offered him a job writing comedy for radio. That fateful instant - and a near-simultaneous offer for taking his university humor revue to London's famous Western world End - propelled him down some other path, cutting his pearly whites writing for actors like David Frost and Peter Retailers and eventually getting started with the five other Pythons to pioneer a new kind of comedy that prized technology, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way he found his first true love with the actress Connie Booth and altered himself from a reluctant performer to a world-class actor and again. Twisting and turning through unexpected stories and entertaining digressions - with some simple pauses on the way that comprise a remarkable primer on what's funny and why - this storyline of a young man's journey to the pinnacle of comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.
