thedailywhat:

Fawlty Sense Of Humor of the Day: In 1974, a shrimpweasel “comedy script editor” named Ian Main sent a memo to BBC’s then-Head of Comedy and Light Entertainment urging him to pass on a show scripted by Monty Python alum John Cleese and Cleese’s first wife Connie Booth, calling it “a collection of cliches and stock characters.”

That show? Fawlty Towers.

Cleese recently commented on the memo, saying “It just shows you people have no idea what they are doing.” Indeed.

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