The complete and unexpurgated scripts of one of the most celebrated comedy series ever. Published in its entirety for the first time and illustrated, The Complete Fawlty Towers will appeal to the millions of fans who have suffered through endless PBS fundraisers waiting for the next episode--and anyone who has survived a package holiday tour. Fawlty Towers is the hotel of every traveler's nightmare. Basil Fawlty--ill-tempered, henpecked, and conniving--tries in vain to be master of his house under the disapproving and ever-watchful eye of his wife, Sybil. The hotel offers service by...

Most people have emotions they can't handle, so they hide them. By choosing partners with the same inhibitions, the problem is often passed on to their children. This book, using modern experiences of family therapy, shows how understanding relationships in families can be made.

Honest, frank and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a comedy giant.

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man...

Autobiografi e nejvýraznějšího – aspoň pokud se výšky týče – člena legendární komediální skupiny Monty Python. Fanoušci tvůrců nesmrtelných fi lmů, jako je Život Briana nebo Monty Python a Svatý grál, teď mají možnost dočíst se nejen „historky z natáčení“, ale dozví se i vzácné informace o Cleesově dětství a vyrůstání (mohutném) na malém městě (na několika malých městech, jedno by nestačilo) a dokážou lépe pochopit, jak se z obyčejného zakomplexovaného kluka stal na Cambridgeské univerzitě génius humoru.

John Marwood...

A classic collection of vintage comedy I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.