Cleese: ‘Fawlty Towers Was Rejected’

That is so bad that it was originally rejected, its such a funny show !!!

British funnyman John Cleese had to fight to get his legendary sitcom Fawlty Towers commissioned by the BBC – because bosses at the company initially turned the show down.

The veteran comic has kept a 1974 rejection letter from a BBC script editor who made a raft of scathing criticisms about the “dire” show – which nearly persuaded Cleese to abandon the project.

The note read, “It’s a collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see as being anything but a disaster.”

But the star refused to give up and his plans were eventually accepted by TV bosses. The series aired in 1975 and went on to become one of Britain’s all-time classic comedy programmes.

Cleese says, “It just shows you people have no idea what they are doing.”