Dubai, UAE: John Cleese brought his hilarious performance
back to Dubai for the second time after the success of last year’s show.
The
recent event, “An Evening with John Cleese” held at Madinat Theatre, Souk
Madinat Jumeirah on 5th to 9th November 2013 was another
impressive sold-out-ticket crowd. This brilliant entertainment with the comedy
legend was again presented in partnership with The Kanoo Group.
The show was basically the same show as before except that
it was more polished and more personal, plus a session on Question and Answer where
he challenged his audience not to ask anything overly polite of rudimental. He
became most engrossed when asked about how he felt about losing his role as Q
in the Bond films.
John Cleese didn’t fail to stop the crowd from laughing so
hard from every bit of his funny lines. As the event sponsor, Kanoo family and
other management staff of The Kanoo Group also gathered in the show to witness
the comedy legend.
Cleese did well both in sports and academics, but his real
love was comedy. Several of these comedy reviews were met with great hit. Now aged
74, John Cleese with his usually poker face, clipped middle class accent
extended his humour often involving ordinary people in ordinary situations,
behaving absurdly for no obvious reason. He once explained that the origin of
his fondness for black humour was the only thing that he inherited from his
mother.
During the show, he shared his extraordinary life experiences
like the time when he attended the funeral of a fellow Python Graham Chapman
where his speech had funeral goers laughing uncontrollably, among others.
Beside his infamous character as a sharp-tongued, rude and
clumsy yet somehow lovable proprietor of an English seaside hotel in the
legendary TV series, “Fawlty Towers”. He rose to prominence with his BBC radio
series as a writer and eventually collected to be a talent for his own program,
“Monty Python’s Flying Circus” which displayed a strange and completely
absorbing blend of low farce and high-concept absurdist humour, and remains
influential to this day.
When asked about what he thinks of Dubai, his answer was, “Unique
- a bit like Vegas. But with flashes of good taste”, he answered.
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