Mr Cleese mocked Weston-Super-Mare, the seaside resort which helped inspire Fawlty Towers, in his new stand-up show, but yesterday faced demands for an apology.

During a performance at the Liverpool Empire theatre on Tuesday night, he said: "I grew up in Weston Super Mare, a tedious little place.

"It's supposed to be a seaside resort - more like a seaside last resort if you ask me. "Weston seemed to be a place that people, and the French, went to wait for the rain to stop.

"I despised Weston so much in fact that I once wrote a little poem about it...'I do not care for Weston-super-Mare and so I'm glad that I'm not there.'

"Everyone was too embarrassed to talk about sex let alone have it. Every child was a virgin birth which is why I could never understand all the fuss about Mary and Jesus.
"The Germans bombed Weston-super-Mare in 1940, an event which has baffled historians ever since as they have toiled with the question... Why?

"The Germans are supposed to be an economical and logical people, so why did they do it?

"There was nothing in Weston that would have been worth more than the bomb." Keith Morris, from Weston-Super-Mare town council, said the comic's views are offensive and out-of-date.
I used to live near there in my teens; it was the place to go to if you wanted to be beaten up. But no doubt that's out of date

Source: The Telegraph travel