English comic actor and writer, b. 1939

• Palin's "dead parrot" sketch partner
• ''Fawlty Towers'' star
• "How to Irritate People" comedian John
• "Monty Python" comic
• Idle collaborator?
• One of the Monty Python troupe
• John who co-founded Monty Python
• Comic actor John
• John of Monty Python fame

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Cleese is a surname from Britain; an English surname, and a Scottish surname originating from MacCleese/McCleese.