When John made his “serious” acting debut in How I Won the War, his co-star Michael Crawford (who was later the original Phantom of the Opera on Broadway) remarked how good John was and he should consider doing more films. John said he liked doing the film but hated all the waiting around so he’d stick to music, he then took out his guitar and played him something he’d written while waiting around on the set, it was Strawberry Fields Forever
Yeh, at the start of AHD'SN he is like a rabbit in the headlights, flipping his head from side to side as everyone else spoke in the opening scene. But by the end of it he was brilliant. As he walks forward in his cricket gear in How I Won The War you can tell he's totally comfortable in that environment. So sad to listen to his contentment here- anything was possible again. Damn those idiots and their guns!
John Lennon's appearance in the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "Not only but also" series shows his comedy skills. It's lovely that he was such a fan of Faulty Towers and Monty Python ( a lot of rock stars loved MPs surrealism)
There is a connection between Fawlty Towers and the Beatles. The dead guest in the episode 'The Kipper and the Corpse' appeared in Magical Mystery Tour as the jolly bus tour guide # 1.
Being a young man of color in England,I grew up on shows like Fawlty Towers and Monty Python so all these years later, I'm not surprised that John Lennon was a fan of those shows.
@blue heeler Take it easy Blue Heeler, and no, you don't pay me to take it easy...anyhow, FFS, you are making a mountain out of a mole hill, maybe he meant he was a young man who grew up on colour televison when it began. Personally I grew up on, firstly B&W television (no, not bondage and whipping,black and white, ebony and ivory, get it?). before turning over to colour.
@blue heeler Over reaction!!!! Racism is a behaviour, not a description!!!! If that is his self identity - why should it affect us??? I bet when he was a kid - alot of white kids would have constantly reminded him he was coloured. Your idealism, would maybe have been relevant, if we lived in a perfectly kind world. BUT WE DON'T!!!
It is highly right that John was such a fan of Fawlty Towers and Monty Python as he had been of the Goons. All the rock stars loved Monty Python and interestingly enough so was Roy Orbison. 1:04
Lennon could´ve been a comedian. He reminds Russel Brand, how witty he was and how eloquent. But Lennon was one of those people that had multiple brilliant sides, like 4 geniuses in one person. The music, the politics, the philosophy, the comedy. He was as good as anyone in each of those areas.
I doubt there's a whole generation that finds FT offensive, a few touchy right wingers might not like FT, but you rarely see right wingers laugh anyway.
@@terrythekittieful It isn't a whole generation, it is just a minority of leftwing pc snowflakes who make a whole load of noise about it, and everyone else has to suffer them.
Really, I thought it was the same old, the Queen still ruling her subjects, Conservatives still in power. The only thing that has changed is the music, crap today and comedy, crap today. Will Brexit make all that better?
George Harrison said that Monty Python was the successor to The Beatles because they came up as The Beatles were dissolving. He told Eric Idle that they'd taken up the torch. Ringo actually appeared briefly in one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus along with Lulu.
@Dean Morrow Indeed, they were quite impressed when they learnt that George Martin produced Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan records. He also recorded Beyond The Fringe, but I think that would have been after they met him. It was also through their love of The Goons that they hired Dick Lester to direct A Hard Days Night.
Dean Morrow Yeah! I heard The Beatles say that early on in interviews.. I've seen The Goons MadFunny!!😂 and i definitely see The Beatles and how They would love them. Thanks For Mentioning this🙏
i dig a pygmie by Charles hawtrey and the defeats fase one in which Doris gets her oats ,me late un pigmeo por Charles hawtrey y los defectuosos parte uno en la que Doris obtiene su avena John lennon
@@rossdelain1645 well all right, it s deaf aids in u k audifonos , sordos ayuda para sordos algo así como : hearing aids in usa. And :. Phase 1 one in English it's : fase 1. Uno en español ;. John Lennon in tel of us from álbum let it be 1970. In naked Paul mccartney quitó todas estas bromas , diálogos de Lennon que si aparecían en el álbum mezclado por Phil spector su famoso wall of sounds, You re right Ross , thanks
Lennon would rather talk about Fawlty Towers than plug his own album. Classic John Lennon...I miss him!
He was always doing funny crazy voices even since the Beatles era !
When John made his “serious” acting debut in How I Won the War, his co-star Michael Crawford (who was later the original Phantom of the Opera on Broadway) remarked how good John was and he should consider doing more films. John said he liked doing the film but hated all the waiting around so he’d stick to music, he then took out his guitar and played him something he’d written while waiting around on the set, it was Strawberry Fields Forever
Great story!
Yeh, at the start of AHD'SN he is like a rabbit in the headlights, flipping his head from side to side as everyone else spoke in the opening scene. But by the end of it he was brilliant. As he walks forward in his cricket gear in How I Won The War you can tell he's totally comfortable in that environment. So sad to listen to his contentment here- anything was possible again. Damn those idiots and their guns!
Cripes! Imagine John Lennon as a guest at Fawlty Towers. Basil would have met his match.
silly walk
He could have played the guy who was sneaking in his girlfriend,
@@petermaxwell2965 Haha yes I remember that he was so quick sneaking her up the stairs🤭🤭
Yes would love to see that!
John Lennon's appearance in the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "Not only but also" series shows his comedy skills. It's lovely that he was such a fan of Faulty Towers and Monty Python ( a lot of rock stars loved MPs surrealism)
I think Paul McCartney was offended by MP Eric Idle's The Rutles piss take of The Beatles.
Miss you John, 40 years gone in October.
December
My typo ☺️, 8th December
Have to agree, there were no better shows and Monty Python and Faulty Towers
This is so cool, one legendary John talking about another legendary John and his "baby"
John Cleese is brilliant 👍.
Thanks for posting this two years ago. Now, in 2020, it is more necessary than ever ...
There is a connection between Fawlty Towers and the Beatles. The dead guest in the episode 'The Kipper and the Corpse' appeared in Magical Mystery Tour as the jolly bus tour guide # 1.
George and maybe john went to Hollywood bowl python concert 1980
A connection can now include anything, turns out. 🤦🏻♂️
Even more respect for Mr. Lennon.
John was a true Englishman through and through
He didn’t consider himself English though and refused to associate with royalty
@@tomscott2.0communisteditio64Rubbish. Of course he was English.
@@tomscott2.0communisteditio64 John Lennon: "I’m English" - geirmykl.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/article-about-john-lennon-from-new-musical-express-march-8-1975/
Great to hear this
John took “whipped” to a whole different level
What's a "while different level"?🤭🤨 Sincerely, Yoko☮️
Whipped cream? Whipped butter?
Basil the Rat is hysterical.
You just had to use _that_ picture of John for the thumbnail. You absolute madman.
Fawlty Towers is the funniest show of all time.
I'd put it in my top ten
Top Ten, yes. First? There’s a lot of serious competition!
God it's great
Fawlty and the Beatles, perfection.
Can you imagine Basil Fawlty having John Lennon in his hotel?!?That would have been even funnier than the Germans episode!!😂😎
@كافر Krok O'dil كافر I mentioned it once,but I think I got away with it!!😂😂
John would have been good in the kitchen, 'bloody no hoper scouse layabout' you would expect Basil to utter.
yeh, the best way to see ENGLAND is to watch you tube videos without being there, especially now
When I discovered John loved 'The Goon Show', I knew he had a great sense of humour.
Being a young man of color in England,I grew up on shows like Fawlty Towers and Monty Python so all these years later, I'm not surprised that John Lennon was a fan of those shows.
What does your color have to do with anything?
@blue heeler Take it easy Blue Heeler, and no, you don't pay me to take it easy...anyhow, FFS, you are making a mountain out of a mole hill, maybe he meant he was a young man who grew up on colour televison when it began. Personally I grew up on, firstly B&W television (no, not bondage and whipping,black and white, ebony and ivory, get it?). before turning over to colour.
@blue heeler I come from dark and deepest Africa. Ongobongoland in fact.
@blue heeler Over reaction!!!! Racism is a behaviour, not a description!!!! If that is his self identity - why should it affect us??? I bet when he was a kid - alot of white kids would have constantly reminded him he was coloured. Your idealism, would maybe have been relevant, if we lived in a perfectly kind world. BUT WE DON'T!!!
@blue heeler OK - that's probably a positive reaction.
It is highly right that John was such a fan of Fawlty Towers and Monty Python as he had been of the Goons. All the rock stars loved Monty Python and interestingly enough so was Roy Orbison. 1:04
I remember watching love for Lydia! Jeramy Irons was in it !
ENGLAND - all green and wet
Sodding rain. It'll take ages for these socks to dry.
ID - MERDEKA !
December 1980? This is probably one of his very last interviews.
Two days before he was shot.
How did John Lennon watch Fawlty Towers in the US?
Lennon could´ve been a comedian. He reminds Russel Brand, how witty he was and how eloquent. But Lennon was one of those people that had multiple brilliant sides, like 4 geniuses in one person. The music, the politics, the philosophy, the comedy. He was as good as anyone in each of those areas.
Who was the "Lydia" that John and Yoko "cried through?"
I remember it. It was an Edwardian (?) Sunday evening BBC drama series
I just checked on imdb. It was actually called 'Love for Lydia'
Why did she keep interrupting him while he's talking, to draw attention to her? Oh damn.
I wonder if Mr. Cleese knows about this. If not, somebody should show him this before he is too old to even understand it.
Fawlty Towers: "Thank you, Sybil, for pointing out the bloody obvious."
George Harrison funded Life of Brian. John would be very proud of him.
He was alive and well when that happened
Cosmic Lino Ugh. You're right.
...now to something completely different... 🙂
George funded Life of Brian and John and Yoko funded Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. Two of the most bizarrely amazing films of the 70’s.
Cmon Yoko, quiet time now
She hardly said anything.
Helen Trope still said too much
One sentence and you get triggered by a woman you never knew or met. How sad and pathetic are you?
@@cactaceous you’ve never met Paul and you’re still attacking him in every video.
I wonder what he would think of the move by the pc brigade, to ban episodes of fawlty towers deemed offensive by the snowflake generation.
I doubt there's a whole generation that finds FT offensive, a few touchy right wingers might not like FT, but you rarely see right wingers laugh anyway.
@@terrythekittieful It isn't a whole generation, it is just a minority of leftwing pc snowflakes who make a whole load of noise about it, and everyone else has to suffer them.
@@mikegan73 All I'm hearing is your whining. Is your Made in Chine MAGA hat too tight?
@@davidb6576 Oops, lookout, another upset offended snowflake. 😂
@@mikegan73 What in the world is a idiot like you finding in FT anyway? You do know that Cleese would despise you and your viewpoints, yes?
A very different England exists today
Bollocks. Drive through the English countryside, it's still 'green and wet'.
Really, I thought it was the same old, the Queen still ruling her subjects, Conservatives still in power. The only thing that has changed is the music, crap today and comedy, crap today. Will Brexit make all that better?
I Always Thought That The Beatles Invented "Monty Python's Flying Circus"...
... See The Movie 🎥
"A Hard Day's Night"
George Harrison said that Monty Python was the successor to The Beatles because they came up as The Beatles were dissolving. He told Eric Idle that they'd taken up the torch. Ringo actually appeared briefly in one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus along with Lulu.
@Dean Morrow Indeed, they were quite impressed when they learnt that George Martin produced Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan records. He also recorded Beyond The Fringe, but I think that would have been after they met him. It was also through their love of The Goons that they hired Dick Lester to direct A Hard Days Night.
Dean Morrow
Yeah! I heard The Beatles say that early on in interviews..
I've seen The Goons MadFunny!!😂 and i definitely see The Beatles and how They would love them.
Thanks For Mentioning this🙏
Dean Morrow
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@Dean Morrow As indeed were the Pythons. There's a lot of Neddy, Major Bloodnok and Eccles in both.
Sadly he died didn't do any interesting things on film much later in life. John would be so funny nowadays in many comedy shows today i believe.
i dig a pygmie by Charles hawtrey and the defeats fase one in which Doris gets her oats ,me late un pigmeo por Charles hawtrey y los defectuosos parte uno en la que Doris obtiene su avena John lennon
its 'deaf Aids' not defeats and it's also 'Phase 1'
@@rossdelain1645 well all right, it s deaf aids in u k audifonos , sordos ayuda para sordos algo así como : hearing aids in usa. And :. Phase 1 one in English it's : fase 1. Uno en español ;. John Lennon in tel of us from álbum let it be 1970. In naked Paul mccartney quitó todas estas bromas , diálogos de Lennon que si aparecían en el álbum mezclado por Phil spector su famoso wall of sounds, You re right Ross , thanks
@@rossdelain1645 John Lennon in two of us dos de nosotros
STF up YOKO.
John used the goons as his crutch
Yoko on was correct about being funny. That scene when she shrieked during the Lennon/Chuck Berry riff was unintentionally hilarious.
Yoko is painful to listen to
No one is interested in a word she has to say..
She didnt even say anything worth being mad about. Jesus
@@beatles123 She didn't, but we are here to listen to him.
@@beatles123 No but her presence is so fucking annoying...she's not needed...not then, not now, not ever
@@elvisleeboy 40+ years on and you're still making the same complaint. Quite amazing.
Yoko always had to insert herself into the conversation. Shut up Yoko!!!
He talks over her.
He could be the guy who beat his wife up!
As long as Yoko played the wife no-one would give a fuck.
Clickbait
Great clickbait!😃
marie c. Eh....😒
We all need a Yoko to steel our soul and arrange our death
Marry any woman. As if she is not similar to any woman that has walked the planet. Get real.