{"id":265561,"date":"2025-11-16T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265561\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:03:16","slug":"john-cleese-wrote-terrible-welsh-joke-in-fawlty-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265561\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese wrote &#8216;terrible&#8217; Welsh joke in Fawlty Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In what Cleese said was his favourite episode, The Kipper and the Corpse, Basil tries to prevent Mrs and Mrs White, a Welsh couple, from seeing the body of a dead guest he has hidden in their wardrobe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cleese laughed recalling the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mr and Mrs White, they were terrific, and then we had that little joke in there about a Welsh restaurant called &#8216;Leek House.&#8217; A terrible, terrible joke that nobody noticed,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001vj0b\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cleese also said director John Howard Davies, who was born in London to Welsh parents, was &#8220;enormously important&#8221; to the show&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies, who had previously directed the first six episodes of Monty Python, also directed the first series of Fawlty Towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what Cleese said was his favourite episode, The Kipper and the Corpse, Basil tries to prevent Mrs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-265561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}