CLEESE CALL

Last week I was lucky enough to see one of my idols, the great John Cleese, perform at House of Comedy with his daughter, stand-up Camilla Cleese. They've been held over for one more night...

...Tuesday, April 6, so this weekend I got the chance to interview them both, by phone, for Phoenix Magazine.

CLEESE IN OUR TIME

Check out my brief encomium, online at Phoenix Magazine, to John Cleese...

The great man is slated to take the stage (!) tonight at House of Comedy on High Street, with his stand-up daughter Camilla Cleese.

IN A FRANKIE MOOD

This week…

Monster-of-the-Week: …our honoree is John Cleese as The Frankenstein Monster, from the classic Monty Python sketch “The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker”:

 
He’s on my list of Strange Versions of Frankenstein, coinciding with this week’s Blu-Ray release of Victor Frankenstein, on New Times Blogs; you can peruse it here.