Throwback Thursday: In 1998, John Cleese Offended Stutterers With 'A Fish Called Wanda' — hollywoodreporter.com

This story first appeared in the Oct. 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Making the rounds recently to promote his memoir, So Anyway …, John Cleese has attracted attention for his denials of retirement, enthusiasm for death ("Most of the best people are dead") and ad felinem attacks on Taylor Swift's lop-eared cat ("Is that a proper cat?" he asked Swift on a BBC talk show. "Or is it damaged irreparably?"). But the pop star is only the latest person to be offended by Cleese, 74, during his nearly five-decade career.

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