we're here with john cleese.ry and the draft being better i sometimes find that when i'm stuck, like, i'll have it open on my computer, and i will just open a clean document and sort of start over. because sometimes, you know, i'll look back, but sometimes when you put a word down on the page you have a -- you're sort of falling in love with it in a way that you need to not do. and -- [ laughter ] and so, like, i just am like, "you're going to sit over here, and we're going to try to rebuild you from the bottom up." like creatively clean out the mind because, sometimes you think your ideas -- you don't want to throw them away. but sometimes it's good to just like, i don't know - >> but when you play with an idea -- i mean, all the research on creativity puts all the emphasis on play can you play the great research was done at berkeley in the '70s by a guy called mackinnon and he discovered that it was nothing to do with intelligence. it was all to do with can you play and kids, of course, can play, "child-like pl

and john cleese tweeted this week that it was the 45th anniversary since the first episode, and he putwere hundreds of these retweets and included people like the former foreign office minister alistair burt saying "thank you, john cleese. you are a comic genius" and so on. and it is — so that's my advice to all listeners around the world — cheer yourself up by watching fawlty towers. it is enduring and timeless and god — 45 years ago! i can't believe it! there were some other interesting issues like whether it would be made today and so on, so big themes as well as light ones. yeah, absolutely. michael goldfarb, as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers ? which is kind of setting an english seaside hotel and feels kind of — now feels almost from another world — but is still amazingly funny, at least to a brit. well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and '71 and i did stay at the british seaside, which is an experience we all have to have — all foreigners need to have the british seaside experience in a faw

john cleese tweeted this week that it is the 45th anniversary since the first episode and he put a clipnd made me laugh out loud. i retweeted itandi made me laugh out loud. i retweeted it and i was amazed, i looked at my phone later on and there were hundreds of these retweets including people like the former foreign office minister alistair burt saying thank you john cleese, you are a comic genius and so on. and it is, so that is my advice to all listeners around the world, cheer yourself up by watching fawlty towers. it is enduring and timeless and 45 years ago i can't believe it. there were other issues about whether it would be made today and someone so big themes as well as light ones. as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers, which is kind of setting an english seaside hotel in enfield is kind of, now, feels almost from another world but is still amazingly funny, at least two of it? well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and 71 and i did stay at the british seaside which is an experience we'll have t

john cleese is joining us now. good morning to you.through their anxiety? >> i think it always helps to laugh. i was in sarajevo three years for a film festival and they me during the time the four years when the serbs were lobbing shells into their town at all times. day and night they used to go to underground garages that they had converted into a cinema and used to watch monty python stuff and, of course, nothing changed. nothing got better but came out feeling better so there's no question that laughing just makes us feel better. that's a good thing. >> it absolutely does make us feel better. okay, the ultimate comedic relief, monty python, it's been over 50 years. you've had reunions and remakes. any plans to bring it back? >> not really because two of us are dead so -- at least two of the others no longer are good to me. i don't think gilliam and idle will be with us very long and that leaves me. my hope is that michael dies first so i can tour the country as the one surviving monty python and i can call my film monty python bec

. >> you know, like john cleese, rowan atkinson man, now those guys are funny. [ laughter ] tom. >> sorry i just got the chicken wing joke good one >> seth: nasa announced last week that it will no longer refer to planets and galaxies by offensive nicknames. so, keep an eye out tonight for the husky dipper [ light laughter ] what was that? >> oh, well, i realize the button has settings for different kinds of laughs, you know, so you can pick something appropriate for each joke. >> seth: and what was that one >> i'd rather not say. >> seth: i would love for you to say. >> polite chuckle. >> seth: tom, i need you to put the dial back where it was >> you got it. >> seth: okay. we got one last joke you sure you're ready this time? >> you bet, seth >> seth: according to a new report, fortune tellers in new york city have seen a large uptick in customers amid the coronavirus pandemic and everyone is asking the same question, "will i ever ride the subway again?" [ laughter ] see? tom, that was perfect. thank you. >> you're welcome, seth. >> seth: were you thinking abou

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