John Cleese says hotel owner Basil Fawlty is ‘lower-middle class’

John Cleese has adapted the TV show Fawlty Towers for the West End (Picture: Dave Hogan/Hogan Media/Shutterst)John Cleese has revealed he thinks his fictional farcical character, hotel owner Basil Fawlty, is ‘lower-middle class’. As Fawlty Towers turns 50, the new play based on the famous sitcom has hit the West End with a brand new cast, but with one very familiar face in John: the original creator, writer and the man behind one of the BBC’s most recognisable comic charac