Pythons, John Cleese, and Hair Transplants.

Let me say right up front: I’m a great Monty Python fan. And when there was a Python marathon on TV a couple of Saturdays ago, absolutely nothing else got done around the house. So it naturally follows that John Cleese, “british actor, writer and tall person” – also of Fawlty Towers fame — is one of my all time favorite persons. (I will save my total devotion to Fawlty Towers for another post).

You may imagine my surprise and delight, therefore, when lo and behold, while surfing around the web this evening, what do I stumble upon but a news story from 2008 (Post Chronicle) where he talked about his then recent hair transplant. Cleese revealed he had had the procedure done during a talk show interview. When asked why he chose to have surgical hair restoration rather than a non-surgical hair replacement, he replied: “Because I have got a very strange shaped head.”

I would have loved to see the entire interview, but alas...

According to the article, the former "Python" also apparently discussed plans for a movie he was writing at the time based upon his ongoing and reportedly bitter divorce from his third wife. The tentative title: ”May Divorce Be With You.”