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March 11, 2025, 1:32 pm
Still upright at 85, John Cleese to bring sit-down comedy to Israel
Co-creator of Monty Python, ‘Fawlty Towers’ and other comic hits — who touted his 2019 appearance as the last chance to see him alive — to play Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in June
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September 3, 2019, 8:50 pm
How John Cleese got laughs from his mother with an offer of murder and taxidermy
The man from the Ministry of Silly Walks is about to turn 80 and no longer leaps into potted plants. But at three packed Tel Aviv shows, he proved there’s life in an old Python yet
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January 13, 2019, 1:24 pm
John Cleese plans Tel Aviv stop during world tour
The 79-year-old British funnyman presents ‘Last Time to See Me Before I Die’
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Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs dies aged 86
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John Cleese ‘orders strike on Iran’
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August 10, 2012, 3:07 am
Patrick Stewart, Israeli movie star
Star Trek’s legendary Captain Jean-Luc Picard signs on to play a British peer in Reshef Levy’s ‘Hunting Elephants’
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May 20, 2012, 5:19 pm
John Cleese, Israeli movie star
Monty Python legend signs on to play a British peer in Reshef Levy’s ‘Hunting Elephants’
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