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Cementing himself as one of Britains funnest and productive comedic performers and writers John Cleese took an experience that he and the Monty Python team had had when staying at a hotel in Torquay. The Manager was rude and abrasive throughout and his ever so English guests could not bring themselves to complain. This was the basis for the character of Basil Fawlty.
For two series Cleese and Connie Booth, his then wife and also Python co-star, crafted a physical and witty comedy able supported by Andrew Sachs as the hapless Manuel and the perfectly pitched Prunella Scales as he’s harridan (though somewhat understandably so) wife Sybil.
The madcap elements of Python drifted in but the surreal was left pretty much as the door. Booth and Cleese give us a sad angry disillusioned man and a wife who plainly wants more but just cannot seem to let go. Whilst there is a quiet tragedy going on, you can imagine Polly the chambermaid and waitress, reminiscing to her children about the experience later in life the comedy shines throughout.