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John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare,
England. In school, Cleese excelled in both sports and academics,
but his real love was comedy.
He later attended Cambridge to study Law, and devoted a great deal
of time to the university's legendary Footlights group, writing
and performing in comedy reviews. When Cleese graduated, he went
on to write for the BBC for a time. He eventually ended up in America,
performing and doing a little journalism.
In addition to his numerous comedic ventures, movies, and other
accomplishments, Cleese has also established a production company
that makes clever business training videos. He continues to act
in movies, supplies his voice to numerous animated and video projects,
and frequently does commercials.
One of Cleese's well-known trademarks is his rendition of an English
upper-class toff. But education and learning are also very important
elements of his life - he was Rector of the University of Saint
Andrews from 1973 until 1976, and continues to be a professor at
large of Cornell University in New York.
John Cleese's Training Videos are sure to delight and educate at
the same time. You'll love his bestselling programs such as Meetings,
Bloody Meetings, The Customer is Always Dwight, How to Lose Customers
Without Really Trying, More Bloody Meetings, and Who Sold You This,
Then?.
"The
supremely silly John Cleese, star of Monty Python's Flying Circus,
is co-author of two books on psychology, and a lawyer with a legal
degree from an institution no less esteemed than Cambridge University."
--John Shepler |