How real madness inspired a comedy legend | Fawlty Towers' John Cleese on Parkinson - BBC 

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Sinclair's own children watched "Fawlty Towers" and said, "That's him..."

Imagine being such a bad boss that you think the staff would try to blow you up.

According to former employees he was a nightmare (and apparently especially abusive to the foreign members of staff. Hence Manuel), so tbh I’m not surprised

@@newperve thank you for clarifying that.

I'd inquire as to what sort of staff problems they were having that nobody would bat an eye at a potential bomb in a suitcase.

Seth Colby it was from the 1970s

@stephen noonan yup, still the best

@stephen noonan kid has advanced taste buds...

To me, best ever

Physical schtik "The ministry of silly walks"! No matter of what he could do, he somehow could put me in crazy laughter.

"The interviewer" being the legendary Michael Parkinson. How we miss his class style!

@@whyisstevieboy too true, I can't tolerate any current interviewers, the British, Americans and Irish are all terrible. Long gone are the days of Carson, Leno, Parkinsons, men with class and respect

@@TheBlueCorolla leno? a man of class and respect? jay leno, correct? i have honestly never heard of that man being descried in such a way. i mean, dont you remember the whole conan controversy? that was classless and disrespectful.

amen

Graham Norton lets the guests talk. Preferably with eachother. Plus he boozes them up first.

they still exist.. lat time in Newquay, stayed at a place where the mosit from the windows driped down into the thick carpet. only heating in the room was a warm-air inverter element, which they turde of when cleaning, so the room was damp and chilly when I got back in the evenings. The wife that was running the place did Manuel and Polly part very good on her own...

Lol. That's awesome. Hopefully it was entertaining and not infuriating.

We can beat that! We had to walk sideways along the wall to get into bed, a live silverfish insect fell out of a pillow..the wardrobe you couldn't open, the lamp had no shade, the ceiling in the bathroom had plastic flowers stuck in it. There was no heating and the owner sat in darkness to save electricity! Not mention the 1 teabag in the huge teapot We were the only ones in the place, and the fire door was sealed off! we couldn't stop laughing! @@svammelsurium

Was. But not anymore.

@@dannyheroufosse9580 why?

Wrong. Still is.

And what about the preparation of the first one 😁🔝

* Fawlty *

Farty towels 😊

* Fawlty *

@@MisterItchy Bloody phone. Sometimes it has a mind of it's own. I had typed the correct spelling. I should have checked it. Thanks

PAL I’m so glad for the word ‘the’ in that sentence!

i'm looking for the full show to

@@jagheterhopp - I doubt you'll find it. Not many people had video recorders that far back. The BBC Archive is the only hope.

Because we eat with the fork in the left-hand and use it to hold the food whilst we cut it with the knife in our right hand, we keep the fork in our left hand to consume the food.,

@@mickymac6571 You eat with your left hand even if you're right-handed? (I'm left-handed myself so I hold my fork with my left hand by default.)

@@roccoz2231 yes,I'm left handed and hold the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right.

SABRAN BIN FARABI Michael Parkinson

Read the description?

@@ivorscrotumic3556 To be fair, the description says the show is called Parkinson. One could be forgiven for not knowing the presenter's full name. Of course, there's always Google for those moments.

John Cleese, used to be Cheese, also known as Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers, the best show ever, ever, ever. :)

@@darlenel9226 Lol ... I read this and was like WTF? The original question he asked was the name of the presenter. I see he edited it to ask for Cleese's name.

Hold your knife and fork the whole time. Cut off a mouthful and use your fork in your left hand to put It in your mouth. Whilst chewing cut off the next mouthful... etc.

Eoaiyer21987rhei You forgot to mention the fork is always held with the tines curved towards the food and you can pile food onto the fork's butt with the knife. It fascinates me. I've tried it a few times, but I don't have the knack. I'm always the odd one out.

That's so strange... It seems so fancy, but it also seems super frustrating.

@@brankin421 To be honest, I only ever learned that Americans don't eat like that from this video. I think the European way would surely be faster, since you start eating straight away and you prepare a mouthful faster than it takes you to eat one, so you are eating constantly. I've never thought eating was frustrating.

Eoaiyer21987rhei Europeans find it easier to eat that way because they were taught that way. I do find it rather tiring putting the knife down after I use it, but I rarely use a knife. I can cut what I need to cut most of the time with the side of the fork. Ha! That's where I have the advantage. They are mostly lost without a knife! No matter what it is, it can be rice... they need a knife! Not to cut it but to pile the food on the backside of the fork! I used to tease my boyfriend about that. Use the fork like a mini shovel! But no! Must be elegant to the very end. And the very idea of picking the food up with the fingers? Heavens no! Chicken wings and a fork and knife... Most of the meat is thrown away, still attached to the bone that must not be physically touched. There might be exceptions to this, but so far I've never seen it.

So.. you wish that more hotel managers were batshit insane, rude weirdos with social problems? And anyway, I've come across two hotel managers in recent years who were perfectly vocal - obnoxiously rude and self involved weirdos who shouldn't have been running a business that is fundamentally about welcoming guests and attending to their needs because that's what they're paying you for. Or is that just me being a "libtard snowflake" and "political correctness gone mad"? Seems like these days everyone thinks being aggressive, rude, self-obsessed and thoughtless is a sign of greatness...