Monty Python star John Cleese to bring UK tour to Edinburgh

MONTY Python star John Cleese is to bring his first ever UK tour to the Capital next year, it has been announced.

The comedy legend will be bringing his "Alimony Tour" to the UK, and will play one night only at the Festival Theatre.

Best known for his turns in Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, his comedy career started as a sketch writer for BBC Radio's Dick Emery Show and then The Frost Report.

After this stardom beckoned, and Monty Python was created with Cleese co-writing and starring in four series and three films.

He went on to achieve further success as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with then wife Connie Booth.

The late 1990s saw him appear in Bond movies The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Of his first ever UK tour, he said: "It is an evening of well honed anecdotes, psychoanalytical tit-bits, details of recent surgical procedures, and unprovoked attacks on former colleagues, especially Michael Palin."

The tour is due to start in Cambridge on 3 May, 2011, and will come to Edinburgh on 10 June, 2011.

Tickets go on sale on Friday and more information can be found at www.festivaltheatre.co.uk.