{"id":746004,"date":"2026-08-22T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746004\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:02:09","slug":"ive-seen-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-7000-times-john-cleese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746004\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’ve seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7,000 times’ – John Cleese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedy legend John Cleese is going on a theatre tour presenting a screening of one of his most famous films, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. <\/p>\n

The film and TV actor will introduce the 1975 classic British movie as well as answer questions from the audience.<\/p>\n

The tour begins in Basingstoke on 1 September and takes in venues including Tunbridge Wells and Woking. <\/p>\n

Cleese told BBC South East Today<\/a>: “We show the film, but I don’t watch it as I’ve seen it over 7,000 times.”<\/p>\n

He added: “So, I go round the corner and have dinner and then come back and answer questions from the audience. <\/p>\n

“It’s now rated as the 13th funniest film ever made and we had no idea what we were doing. <\/p>\n

“The whole thing is a kind of minor miracle. <\/p>\n

“It’s extraordinary. I come out and introduce the film for about 15 minutes and I tell them about the history and how we came to make it.” <\/p>\n

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 comedy film based on the Arthurian legend and a follow-on from the popular Monty Python’s Flying Circus TV series. <\/p>\n

It stars Cleese alongside Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. <\/p>\n

Cleese played Sir Lancelot the Brave, The Black Knight, Tim the Enchanter and other roles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedy legend John Cleese is going on a theatre tour presenting a screening of one of his most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746004","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=746004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}