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John Cleese has joked he was ‘very worried’ about the success of the Fawlty Towers stage show because the auditions were ‘so awful’.
Despite his initial skepticism about revisiting the iconic show, having turned down a musical and TV show, the writer finally accepted an offer in 2015.
John, 84, appeared on This Morning on Friday alongside actors Adam Jackson-Smith, who plays John’s role of Basil, and Paul Nicholas who plays The Major.
Speaking to hosts Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond, John joked: ‘I was very worried because the auditions had been so awful.
‘I was disappointed with rehearsal. Somehow we fooled the critics because they’re not very good these guys.’
John Cleese has joked he was ‘very worried’ about the success of the Fawlty Towers stage show because the auditions were ‘so awful’
John, 84, appeared on This Morning on Friday alongside actors Adam Jackson-Smith (centre), who plays John’s role of Basil, and Paul Nicholas (right) who plays The Major
Asked about performing in the show, Adam said: ‘It is wonderful. From the very first preview, we’ve had this incredible reaction from the audience. It’s been amazing seeing an audience laughing with 700 other people.’
John added: ‘There’s something special going on. Nowadays you don’t go to the theatre that often and sit in an audience of people who are rocking with laughter.
‘Watching the audience, watching them rocking backwards and forwards, it’s a wonderful feeling.’
It comes after John admitted he agreed to the West End production of Fawlty Towers due to the financial security it would bring him.
In a candid interview, John revealed he is doing it for the money so that he no longer has to fly economy.
He told The Times: ‘But this is about getting myself a nest egg, so I can get a place in the sun. Because I have a problem with British weather.
‘And if there’s a crisis, you can throw money at it. That’s the best thing about money.
‘The next stage is to have enough not to have to fly commercial. I’m 6’4” and I find flying absolutely awful.’
John wrote BBC Two’s Fawlty Towers – which was broadcast from 1975 to 1979 for two seasons – with his ex-wife Connie Booth, 83 (both pictured on the show)
Asked about performing in the show, Adam said: ‘It is wonderful. From the very first preview, we’ve had this incredible reaction from the audience’ (West End cast pictured)
The comments come after it was announced last year that the actor is writing a new television show set in the Caribbean, which will see Basil’s daughter who has worked in hotels all her life, embark on a new job and enlist the help of her father.
He is also working on a musical and a non-musical version of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, plus another comedy film about cannibalism.
John wrote BBC Two’s Fawlty Towers – which was broadcast from 1975 to 1979 for two seasons – with his ex-wife Connie Booth, 83.
The 12-episode sitcom is based on a real-life hotel owner, Donald Sinclair, who ran the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and the couple became fascinated with his incredibly rude behaviour.
John was married to Connie, 83, from 1968 to 1978 after they both met on the comedy circuit while studying drama in New York.
The couple co-wrote and starred opposite each other in both series of Fawlty Towers with Connie playing the chambermaid Polly Sherman – although they divorced before the second series was finished and aired.
It comes after John admitted he agreed to the West End production of Fawlty Towers due to the financial security it would bring him
In 2020, the BBC removed an episode of Fawlty Towers from UKTV over ‘racial slurs’.
Titled The Germans, Cleese’s hotelier upsets a German family with constant references to the Nazis.
Despite the controversy, John confirmed the new West End production of the classic 1970s sitcom will include the scene in which a delusional Fawlty, suffering from a head injury, continually brings up the Second World War.
It’s been 50 years since the first show was first recorded at the BBC studios in December 1974.
