When John Cleese and his ex-wife/co-star Connie Booth created the TV comedy Fawlty Towers he didn’t expect the show to overshadow his work on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, nor did he expect his portrayal of Basil Fawlty to become part of comedy history.
But despite BBC exectutives doubt and initial low ratings Fawlty Towers went on to become one of the most popular Britcoms of all time, and it all started when Cleese met “the rudest man I’ve ever come across in my life” at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay:
While shooting Monty Python’s Flying Circus, John Cleese and the rest of the Monty Python team stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, where they were constantly berated by the eccentric hotel…
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