The main four actors have roles here that display similar dynamics to their roles in A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character is the morally upright straight-man, Jamie Lee Curtis's character starts out morally grey but ends up romantically linked to John Cleese's character, Kevin Kline is the dense antagonist of the film's plot, and Michael Palin's character provides an active supporting role to the main events.

( The idea for the title grew out of John Cleese's recollection of the discarded working title for the previous year's show.

Writing for the BBC Guide to Comedy, Mark Lewisohn observes that the critical reception was mixed, with " its detractors pointing out that Eric Slatt was a carbon copy of John Cleese's Basil Fawlty its supporters praising its non-PC, off-the-wall approach and the breathlessly paced plots that delivered moments of high farce.

At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.

During his briefing of 007 in the film, Q introduces John Cleese's character, R, as his heir presumptive, and the film alludes to Q's retirement — which Bond, after seeing Q, expresses his hope that it will not be any time soon.

* Cleese's character of Donald Sinclair may be based on the hotelier of the same name.

Thus the formation of the Monty Python troupe has been referred to as a result of Cleese's desire to work with Palin and the chance circumstances that brought the other four members into the fold.

She also appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a woman accused of being a witch ; in How to Irritate People, a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members ; and in The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It ( Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mrs. Hudson ).

The voice used by the supposedly actual Adolf Hitler in the educational video shown to Cartman is based on Monty Python alum John Cleese's Hitler impression, which both Parker and Stone particularly praised.

In the original sketch from the programme and film version, the girl is played by Connie Booth, John Cleese's then-wife ; in the live version, the girl is played by Python regular Carol Cleveland.

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?

In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese's character is the head of Q branch, having inherited the title of quartermaster from his predecessor.

The novelization of the film, written by Iain Johnstone, begins with a letter, written by Archie Leach ( Cleese's character in Wanda ) to Rollo, revealing that they are actually twin brothers ; Rollo changed his surname from " Leach " to " Lee " in order to improve his chances of advancement within the Hong Kong police.

Supporting actors from A Fish Called Wanda returning for Fierce Creatures include Maria Aitken ( wife of Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda, his assistant in Fierce Creatures ) and Cynthia Cleese ( daughter of Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda and Pip Small Mammals in Fierce Creatures ).

* A Fish Called Wanda ( 1988 ), in which John Cleese's character dangles from an upper storey of New Concordia Wharf

Cleese's lines were then played from a tape recorder into the broadcast programme.

When that fails, he tries an impression of Adolf Hitler, which involves goose-stepping around the lobby ( in a style reminiscent of Cleese's " Ministry of Silly Walks " sketch ).

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

The best procedure is to have a few friends hold the planking in place while you mark it off.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

If, in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends, you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child's grandmother watching this event, you have begun to be an artist in film ; ;

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

Aged 15, it was Anne's first time away from home, and she made few friends at Roe Head.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

A few years later, Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends and began work on The Evil Dead.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

Many other fictional languages and their associated conworlds are created privately by their inventor, known only to the inventor and perhaps a few friends.

Over the next few days, Montag bonds with Clarisse, who tells him that her interest in intellectual activities has made her an outcast in a society dominated by shallow entertainment, and for that, she has no friends and has to see a psychiatrist.

Furthermore, the routing algorithm is capable of routing over a mixture of opennet and darknet connections, allowing people who have only a few friends using the network to get the performance from having sufficient connections while still receiving some of the security benefits of darknet connections.

Orwell was noted for very close and enduring friendships with a few friends, but these were generally people with a similar background or with a similar level of literary ability.

The memoir, which he distributed only to a few friends, expressed his frustration that people did not seem to value elegance in software, and it said of Gates, " He is divisive.

In a few of the July 2007 strips, Garfield became jealous of Liz until they became friends July 24.

Irma is a chirpy but slow-witted and unattractive waitress / manager, and one of Jon ’ s few friends.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Israel, and spent the remainder of his life in a hermit's cell near Bethlehem, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher.

Ōshima was one of the few diplomats who were friends with Ribbentrop.

During the Tito-era of communist rule in Yugoslavia, the ethnic Albanian and Serb populations of Kosovo were strongly irreconcilable with sociological studies during the Tito-era indicating that ethnic Albanian and Serb peoples in Kosovo rarely accepted each other as neighbours or friends and few held interethnic marriages.

Despite being friends with Margaret, she has driven Margaret mad a few times, notably in " Only a Story ", when she moved in with the Meldrews after her flat had been flooded and drove Margaret to the point of distraction with her complaining and laziness.

Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.