My worst moment: John Cleese and the unfortunate phone call
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Jul 30, 2020
4 minutes
John Cleese had originally planned to take his one-man show "Why There is No Hope" on tour this fall. Those plans were canceled due to the pandemic and instead he will live stream the performance this Sunday.
"I talked to Howard Szigeti, who is the promoter, I've done several tours with him, and while we were chatting this idea evolved: Well, why not try streaming it?" Cleese said. "So we're going to do it in a small theater in the UK and we're going to have maybe 40 people there, carefully socially distanced, so that I can do the speech to them so that they might giggle now and then to encourage me. And then they will
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