John Cleese
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author—smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the artist as a young man.”—The Washington Post
The legendary writer and performer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame takes readers on a grand tour
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
5) Aunty Joan
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Edith's sister Joan is trying her patience, and Roger checks Phil's roof for dry rot.
6) Doing a Bunk
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Edith and Phil plan their big day with a little help from their family and friends.
8) The Sale
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Edith and Queenie persuade Phil that an Open Day may be the key to selling his house.
10) The Burglary
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
As tensions grow between Roger and Wendy, a midnight break-in brings Edith face to face with a ghost from her past. How can she explain the raffish Bob to Phil?
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Mrs Gale gives herself the task of being an unofficial marriage guidance counsellor to Roger and Wendy, whom she advises to practice being nice. Edith and Phil seize the chance to get away for the weekend, but they soon receive an alarming phone call from their cleaner, who has hijacked their house as a venue for a party.
12) Bubbly
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture the happiness of his boyhood.
13) Roger the Carer
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Bob gives Roger the idea of applying to be a paid carer for Edith. However, Edith is perfectly well, so who can Roger persuade to stand in for her?
15) Birthday
Description
Edith is about to celebrate her 70th birthday, and Phil and Roger are determined to outshine each other with their gifts. However, Edith is far from impressed with her son's present - tracking down the family's former cleaner. Meanwhile, Roger tries to disrupt his mother's new romance by bringing up Phil's past.
16) Old Flames
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Phil is worried that Edith's old flame Bob may be gaining ground and that his own one-time floozy Desiree may put in an unwelcome appearance.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Immaculate ed.
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
19) Igor
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
To prove he can create his own diabolical invention, a mad scientist’s (John Cleese) nice-guy assistant IGOR (John Cusack) creates a female Franken-monster. But his creation, Eva (Molly Shannon), is sweet and sings show tunes! That is, until she falls into the clutches of Dr. Schadenfreude (Eddie Izzard) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Coolidge). Now, Igor and his sidekicks (Steve Buscemi and Sean Hayes) must save Eva – and their village – from...