John Cleese Reveals “We Killed A Man” With Comedy Film ‘A Fish Called Wanda’
deadline.comJohn Cleese, the comedy veteran star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, has made a surprising admission – that he once killed a man.
Cleese wrote and appeared in the comedy hit film A Fish Called Wanda – also starring Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis – and he revealed in the latest episode of his new talk show that one man was laughing so much during a screening of the film, he had a cardiac arrest and died.
Cleese expanded on the story during a conversation in his GB News series, The Dinosaur Hour, saying: “Kevin Kline and I killed a man in Denmark.
He was a dentist, he had a huge laugh. A famous laugh. Very popular. It was in Aarhus, not a big town, but everybody knew him. “And he went to see Wanda and he started laughing about two minutes in and never stopped.
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