Fawlty Towers by John Cleese is the best comedy series of all time, if you ask me, it is one of the best according to others – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, plus multitudes of reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

Fawlty Towers by John Cleese is the best comedy series of all time, if you ask me, it is one of the best according to others – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, plus multitudes of reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

10 out of 10

 

I think this is miraculous, indeed, as I write this, I realize I have to have a look again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/fawlty-towers-by-john-cleese-one-of.html albeit you may not even heard of it, if you are young, and then more importantly, if you are extant, as in anybody reading this

 

Phenomenal John Cleese has the leading role of Basil Fawlty, an obnoxious, if hilarious hotel owner, manager, waiter, and jack of all trades in his business, he has created this spectacular show with his then wife, Connie Booth, who is also acting in the series, as Polly Sherman, waitress, receptionist, versatile employee

All sorts of funny accidents, calamities happen – Basil Fawlty is stingy, so he hires some incompetent builder, while his wife is away, and then the access to the restaurant is walled up, and the whole thing turns into a farce and exceptional episode, wherein Manuel, the waiter from Barcelona, played by Andrew Sachs shines

 

John Cleese was also part of the best comedy ever (according to yours truly again)  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/monty-pythons-life-of-brian-bymonty.html and you should see – if you, or anyone is here, have not seen this chef d’oeuvre – The Life of Brian, Time Out said this is the best ever

In another episode of Fawlty Towers, we have this woman with a disability, she is deaf, who is complaining all the time: she wants a refund, because she does not like the view in her room, and arrogant, pompous Basil Fawlty is there to ‘help’, except there is a communication problem between them

 

The guest cannot hear him telling her he is the manager and owner, and has to repeat it and then shout, he will play on this issue – this is the sort of fellow he is, and then this was filmed decades ago, today there may be restrictions on some jokes – catching the visitor and saying ‘you heard that alright’, when the moment comes

Room With a View https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-room-with-view-by-e-m-foster.html is a novel I have enjoyed, but in this situation, Fawlty is right in stating that the demand is exaggerated ‘what did you expect, a volcano, the pyramids’ and he does not use these words, so I have to go see the series again

 

Another plot revolves around Manuel, who ‘came from Barcelona, for at that time Spain was behind, now it is a star in the European Union, very much ahead with the use of renewable energy, and the prime minster was courageous in facing the Orange Caligula from the White House on the Iran war…Manuel has taken a rat as a pet

 


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