John Cleese: Weston-Super-Mare "a tedious little place"

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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 Keith Morris, from Weston-Super-Mare town council, said the comic's views are offensive and out-of-date.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 But no doubt that's out of date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

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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 But no doubt that's out of date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

lol Sounds like Eastbourne where I come from originally - they used to have a night at Kings Country Club, 'called grab a granny', and I learnt to be a man there lol

It was totally spoiled one night when I was dancing with this real older woman (I think she was all of 27), and I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned round and there was my mother dancing with my school mate Glen Hobden...

Traumatised? You bet I was...
Bless her 73 now and still giggles about it and apparently it was all a wind up organised through my brother, the bugger....

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When will people stop interoperating what Comedians say as a joke as facts.

lol @ practical joke - awesome.