Category: John Cleese

John Cleese doesn’t need the new Compaq Portable 286, he has Bruno

Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. The Compaq Portable was one of the progenitors of today’s laptop; some called it a “suitcase computer” for its size and the look of its case

The Intel 80286, introduced on February 1, 1982 was an x86 16-bit microprocessor with 134,000 transistors. It was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor. It was widely used in IBM PC compatible computers during the mid 1980s to early 1990s.

[John] Cleese was educated at St Peter’s Preparatory School, Weston-super-Mare where he was a star pupil, receiving a prize for English and doing well at sports including cricket and boxing.

John Cleese can speak Polish

Bank Zachodni WBK SA is a Polish bank. Between 1995 and 1996 Allied Irish Banks began to invest into Poland’s emerging economy by purchasing 60.1% of Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy, one of the country’s most successful commercial banks.

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is known as being a member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus and for four films.

In 2008 John Cleese appeared in a humorous TV commercial in Poland advertising a bank loan.