John Cleese: Fawlty Towers play a success as it is ‘funnier than anything else’

John Cleese with the cast of Fawlty Towers: The Play (James Manning/PA) John Cleese has said his stage adaption of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”. Cleese, 85, was speaking to the PA news agency ahead of a new run of Fawlty Towers: The Play, which will begin at the Apollo Theatre in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue on June 24, where it will remain until September 13 before heading out on a UK and Ireland tour..