“My biggest regret? Not being knighted by the Queen. I should have been a knight, and I would have been knighted, if I hadn't written one horrible horrible Python sketch which I deeply deeply regret — [cue Python sketch: "Upper Class Twit of the Year"]”

—  John Cleese

From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.

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