John Cleese unveils ‘We Killed A Man’ with comedy ‘A Fish Called Wanda’

John Cleese, the comedy veteran of Monty Python And Fawlty Towersmade a shocking confession – that he once killed a man.

Cleese wrote and starred in the hit comedy A fish calls Wanda – also with Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis – and he revealed in the latest episode of his new talk show that a man laughed so hard during a screening of the film that he went into cardiac arrest and died.

Cleese explained the story during an interview on his GB News series: The Dinosaur HourSay:

“Kevin Kline and I killed a man in Denmark. He was a dentist and had a good laugh. A familiar smile. Very famous. It was in Aarhus, not a big city, but everyone knew him.

“And he went to see Wanda and he started laughing after about two minutes and never stopped.

They carried him out dead, he had a heart attack.’

With him, Cleese rose to the pinnacle of British comedy Monty Python series and later the sitcom Fawlty Towers, and also shared his experiences with depression. He thought about how many fans had told him over the years about the goodness of making people laugh, stories that made him rethink the value of comedy.

“About ten years ago, I realized that making people laugh means more than just making them laugh. If you do a comic [fan event] or something like that and people come up and say, “Thank you for making me laugh all these years,” and it brings a tear to their eye.

“It’s beautiful, beautiful. Others say: Thank you for helping me through some of the tough times. And suddenly you realize it’s not just entertainment when people laugh.”

A fish named WandaReleased in 1988, the film was produced on a budget of $7.5 million and grossed $188 million at the worldwide box office.