Illness is every man’s lord. It also applies when you called John Cleese.
The 80-year-old comedian and actor, who is still active on tv and in the movie, just like most other older people living with the emergence of health problems up here and here. Most recently he was diagnosed with cancer in the leg. And it is he now surgery.
‘Had a less operatjon Friday. A surgeon cut off a small cancerous growth out of my leg. It was not very big. At my age, the kind of something that happens about once a week’, he writes, according to the Newspaper humorous to his five million followers on Twitter.
Monty Python team in 1979 in the ‘Life of Brian’.Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
John Cleese broke through all over the world with his vanvitte komikergruppe Monty Python – They made, among other things, the film ‘Life of Brian’, where the udødeliggjorte Eric Idle singing ‘Always Look on The Bright Side of Life’ strains.
Since Cleese had wonderful supporting roles in blockbuster movies – among other things, as ‘Q’ in ‘James Bond, and as the ghost ‘Nearly Headless Nick’ and ‘Charlie’s Angels’, where he is the Lucy Lius father.
John Cleese and Eric Idle in a scene from ‘The Holy Grail’. Photo: Moviestore/Shutterstock
the Man is well over the retirement age, but he will not beat out of a bit of cancer. He did not, 25 years ago, when he was hit by prostate cancer. It he took in stride and survived.
And humour is a real companion for Cleese. Both the walk and now. If the cancer in the leg, he says:
in the Ministry of Goofy Gaits did John Cleese great happiness. Photo credit: Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
‘ the Doctor performed a neat piece of work. He sewed it together and said: ‘This is just a small scratch’ – which is a quote from the film ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’
On Twitter, you can see that his fans, in addition to wish him ‘a speedy recovery’ – has the answer, with clips from both the Monty Python films and Cleeses other roles.
‘You’re one of the few who can make cancer funny’, writes one.
Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones from Monty Python.
the Fan-the people are very much aware that the Monty Python boys have been older gentlemen.
John Cleese is 80 years old, Michael Palin is 77 years old, Eric Idle is 77 years old and Terry Gilliam is 79 years, while two of the members have died: Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989, only 48 years old, and Terry Jones died of dementia in 2020 77 years old.