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I was so excited to take my two children to see John but things rapidly grew tedious. The seating at Bass Concert Hall is incredibly uncomfortable. Within forty minutes we were all squirming, trying to get circulation in our legs. The show began with Cleese warming up the audience with some jokes all of which were "borrowed" from other comics and that disappointed me. I understand that Cleese is over eighty and as a speaker, he is quite amazing. However, I learned absolutely nothing I did not already know which as a result had my son and myself nodding off. The presentation was basically a PowerPoint with clips from Monty Python and like any clip show it felt like filler. After a clip of Cleese at Chapman's funeral John walked back on stage and basically said, "Show's over. Good night," and walked off abruptly confusing us. He never spoke about his life past Fish Called Wanda. I was waiting for some "Q" stories or something I was not familiar with. I could have stayed home.
Jon from Denver, Colorado
LEAVE THE POLITICS OUT!
My wife and I were excited to finally go out and enjoy an evening after over a year of putting up with the pandemic and social media finger pointing as to whos to blame. Cleese started out with an entertaining look back on his professional career and insightful musings of "so called experts" in every profession. Then, unfortunately he goes into political bashing of Trump and conservative supporters. I'm up to my ears from both sides! Can we please enjoy a night out without political BS? Please?
Tracey from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
DISAPPOINTED
Who better to go see to escape the unending political correctness than John Cleese?
The 90 min, $150 a seat show opened with Cleese's daughter, Camilla. She said the only reason her dad was touring was to pay off his $20M divorce settlement to his previous wife.
John had the entire audience read from the prompter how great/funny/wonderful he is, while interjecting "thank you's" & "yes, I know's". It started out a bit funny but went on too long,becoming awkward.
He talked about the difference of good spirited & mean spirited jokes. Told a few one liners about different nationalities that were dated but got a few laughs.
He showed a few Monty Python clips & GCs funeral that seemed to just be filler.
Camilla started Q&A that turned into a family argument about whether Roman Polanski was a pedophile rapist, or genius. John defended Polanski & told her to change the subject since they were losing their audience. She asked him one more question, & announced the show was over.
Larry Campbell from New Jersey
NOT WORTH IT
I was terribly disappointed , as was the other 3 people in our party,
with what we experienced at Bergen PAC in Englewood NJ on July 19th.
The best way to summarize this is that we laughed more at the movie,
which I have seen more than 50 times, than with Mr. Cleese’s
performance. I was looking forward to experience my comedic hero’s
genius that night and was shocked at how amateurish the
performance was. Most of the QA seemed scripted and was generally
boring. His daughter appeared to have been struggling with either a
medication issue or an illness, I am trying to be polite. We all did not
want to hear another comic express their political views to us either.
We are very “tired” of hearing comics tell us what they think politically,
as I am sure many others are as well. To pay over $125 per ticket this
is not at all what we expected. Save your money and watch the Holy
Grail in the comfort of your home.
Carol from Ottawa, Ontario
NOPE
I went with friends. We had great seats. Although we thought Mr.
Cleese's observations were interesting, we found the show to be
only mildly funny. We never laughed out loud; at most we chuckled
and smiled. Obviously a well-read, intelligent man, he has an eye
for humour that he easily turned into amusing anecdotes. There
was a discernible thread throughout his monologue. We were
disappointed that he only spoke for about 45 minutes. There was a
Q&A in which he did not answer the actual questions. Some were
admittedly stupid and/or long-winded questions (come on,
people!). He left us on a positive note when he replied to a
particularly inane question about emotional intelligence by
responding with expertly garbled words that spoke volumes about
his opinion (and ours) about that question. In short, we paid a lot
of money for a generally disappointing show. I wish I had spent our
money on a coffee table which i know I could use and enjoy for
more than 90 minutes. Wouldn't recommend.
Kevin Basken from Winnipeg, Manitoba
DISAPPOINTING
My spouse and I attended the John Cleese
show last evening. We are of the age who were
privileged enough to grow up with Cleese’s
amazing wit and wonderful manipulation of
history and culture. Me Cleese holds high
esteem in my memory of his lifetime of
histerical work. Unfortunately his performance
last night was mostly irrelevant and I found
myself having to force a laugh here and there
just to be polite. I certainly don’t wish to be
cruel to one of my all time hero’s but I found
his material old and worn. I’m afraid the
phrase “Donald Trump” is no longer worthy of
a giggle. Sorry John, I still love you.
Bob Roberts from Fresno, California
DISAPPOINTING
You watch a 43 year old movie, then the star anticlimactically comes out to answer questions. He is
accidentally funny, and then we all go home. 3 hours of life l will never get back.
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