Never go back. Or, then again, cast aside any such thinking and, like a famous rock star, book the venues, load up the vans and hit the road one more time.
John Cleese isn’t a rock star and isn’t exactly hitting the road. But he’s certainly reaching deep into his back catalogue – with a London West End stage production of Fawlty Towers, exactly 50 years after it was first recorded at BBC Television Centre.
He seems remarkably upbeat about it all. And now he’s 84, there’s no slowing down (a stage version of Monty Python is planned for next year in London); no moaning about the travails of advancing age and, thank goodness, no mincing of words.
‘The reason got made was that there
