Overview
- The 90-minute film, John Cleese Packs It In, tracks his European tour in his 80s and is scheduled to screen in more than 350 UK cinemas on 13 November.
- Cleese recounts roughly two and a half to three months of a nervous breakdown that included suicidal thoughts.
- He says he returned to performing within three to four months after starting a mild antidepressant.
- He links his late-career touring to the financial impact of his 2008 divorce from Alyce Faye Eichelberger.
- In the film and interviews, he outlines a view that all comedy is critical, describes “woke” as a spectrum, and rejects jokes intended to hurt.