John Cleese Reviews

J.B. from Winnipeg, Manitoba

JOHN CLEESE WINNIPEG

Disapointed! Poor flow, boring content. Nothing about personal young days,pre-comedy! 1 1/2 total included 8-10 questions and 2 introductions and BAM over! Not worth my time or $$$$

J.B. from Winnipeg, Manitoba

JOHN CLEESE WINNIPEG

Not impressed! Very little structure! Random rants about politics. Noting about what started his live of comedy. Took about 8-10 questions from audience. With introductions from two people- less than 1 1:2 hours. Not worth the money!!!

Cory Stephens from Horseshoe Bay, Tx

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY THE SAME

I was so excited to take my two children to see John but things rapidly grew tedious. The seating at Bass Concert Hall is incredibly uncomfortable. Within forty minutes we were all squirming, trying to get circulation in our legs. The show began with Cleese warming up the audience with some jokes all of which were "borrowed" from other comics and that disappointed me. I understand that Cleese is over eighty and as a speaker, he is quite amazing. However, I learned absolutely nothing I did not already know which as a result had my son and myself nodding off. The presentation was basically a PowerPoint with clips from Monty Python and like any clip show it felt like filler. After a clip of Cleese at Chapman's funeral John walked back on stage and basically said, "Show's over. Good night," and walked off abruptly confusing us. He never spoke about his life past Fish Called Wanda. I was waiting for some "Q" stories or something I was not familiar with. I could have stayed home.

Jon from Denver, Colorado

LEAVE THE POLITICS OUT!

My wife and I were excited to finally go out and enjoy an evening after over a year of putting up with the pandemic and social media finger pointing as to whos to blame. Cleese started out with an entertaining look back on his professional career and insightful musings of "so called experts" in every profession. Then, unfortunately he goes into political bashing of Trump and conservative supporters. I'm up to my ears from both sides! Can we please enjoy a night out without political BS? Please?

Tracey from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

DISAPPOINTED

Who better to go see to escape the unending political correctness than John Cleese? The 90 min, $150 a seat show opened with Cleese's daughter, Camilla. She said the only reason her dad was touring was to pay off his $20M divorce settlement to his previous wife. John had the entire audience read from the prompter how great/funny/wonderful he is, while interjecting "thank you's" & "yes, I know's". It started out a bit funny but went on too long,becoming awkward. He talked about the difference of good spirited & mean spirited jokes. Told a few one liners about different nationalities that were dated but got a few laughs. He showed a few Monty Python clips & GCs funeral that seemed to just be filler. Camilla started Q&A that turned into a family argument about whether Roman Polanski was a pedophile rapist, or genius. John defended Polanski & told her to change the subject since they were losing their audience. She asked him one more question, & announced the show was over.

Larry Campbell from New Jersey

NOT WORTH IT

I was terribly disappointed , as was the other 3 people in our party, with what we experienced at Bergen PAC in Englewood NJ on July 19th. The best way to summarize this is that we laughed more at the movie, which I have seen more than 50 times, than with Mr. Cleese’s performance. I was looking forward to experience my comedic hero’s genius that night and was shocked at how amateurish the performance was. Most of the QA seemed scripted and was generally boring. His daughter appeared to have been struggling with either a medication issue or an illness, I am trying to be polite. We all did not want to hear another comic express their political views to us either. We are very “tired” of hearing comics tell us what they think politically, as I am sure many others are as well. To pay over $125 per ticket this is not at all what we expected. Save your money and watch the Holy Grail in the comfort of your home.

Carol from Ottawa, Ontario

NOPE

I went with friends. We had great seats. Although we thought Mr. Cleese's observations were interesting, we found the show to be only mildly funny. We never laughed out loud; at most we chuckled and smiled. Obviously a well-read, intelligent man, he has an eye for humour that he easily turned into amusing anecdotes. There was a discernible thread throughout his monologue. We were disappointed that he only spoke for about 45 minutes. There was a Q&A in which he did not answer the actual questions. Some were admittedly stupid and/or long-winded questions (come on, people!). He left us on a positive note when he replied to a particularly inane question about emotional intelligence by responding with expertly garbled words that spoke volumes about his opinion (and ours) about that question. In short, we paid a lot of money for a generally disappointing show. I wish I had spent our money on a coffee table which i know I could use and enjoy for more than 90 minutes. Wouldn't recommend.

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