British Comedy Classics

Basil ponders on what happened to his life during his marriage to Sybil, excellent British comedy.
Fawlty Towers – Basil on marriage

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In this scene from Fawlty Towers, Basil has collected food for his guests from another restaurant, but his car packs up on the way back to the hotel.
There is only one thing for it – a sound thrashing!
Fawlty Towers – Basil Thrashes His Car

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Basil has to deal with misery guts customer Mrs Harris who is also a little deaf.
Fawlty Towers – Mrs Richards

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Fawlty Towers has just been voted the Most Iconic TV Comedy of all time. This is a clip with Manuel practising his English.
Fawlty Towers – I Speak English, I Learn It From A Book

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Fawlty Towers – The Germans
After leaving Monty Python behind, John Cleese created quite possibly the best british tv sit-com of all time eith his then wife, Connie Booth.
John Cleese starred as the obnoxious guest house proprietor Basil Fawlty.  In this classic british comedy scene Basil upsets a group of German guests.

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