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The Sun’s Fawlty Statement

The Sun’s Fawlty Statement

John Cleese makes a complaint

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A scene from 'Monty Python's The Meaning of Life', 1983. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images)

In 1982, British tabloid The Sun reported that filming on Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life had been marred by an incident involving John Cleese and a group of extras dressed as Zulu warriors. According to the article, Cleese, frustrated th…

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