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I'm Jesse Thorn. This week I'm going to talk to John Cleese, Monipython co-founder,

leading light of the comedy firmament and noted collector of stuffed animals.

One of the reasons I'm so in love with my wife is that I discovered when I met her

that she had a large collection of stuffed animals and almost as good as my own.

So we've decided to put these animals together and leave them to the Smithsonian when she dies.

I thought you were putting them together to make more stuffed animals.

It's Bullseye.

Coming up, my conversation with you very funny and very tall, John Cleese.

His memoir is called So Anywhere. He'll explain why he chose not to be a lawyer

where his sense of humor comes from and how he felt about last year's Monipython reunion.

It wasn't to the show in the order, it was absolutely.

And once I realized that, then I really began to enjoy the show enormously.

I'll also sit down with Dee Dee Penny. She's the front woman of Dum Dum Girls.

They're a full-on garage band girl group now, but Dee Dee started the project on her own

and recorded everything herself.

The entire learning curve and learning process was committed to record.

Then I'll tell you about what might well be the least braggie rap song ever made.

That's all coming up on Bullseye. Let's go.

It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn.

John Cleese was almost a lawyer. In fact, he had accepted a job with a huge London law firm.

He was going to start once he'd finished his last year at Cambridge.

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