John Cleese won’t be thrashing a car with a branch in Fawlty Towers revival, says daughter

JOHN Cleese won’t thrash a car with a branch in the new Fawlty Towers, his daughter says.

The Sun revealed this week the classic 1970s sitcom is getting a new series 44 years after it ended.

Cleese, 83, will write it with daughter Camilla, 39, who said the reboot will “honour the tone” of the original — which saw hotel owner Basil Fawlty charge about while losing the plot.

She said of her dad: “He won’t be doing as much crazy physical, comedic things as before but you never know what you might see him do.”

Fans fear the gags which made the show a classic will not be made amid today’s woke culture.

Speaking from her home in LA, Camilla, a stand-up comic, said: “There will be jokes that will be a little bit edgy but we’re not out to get anyone, we don’t dislike any people. That’s not the basis of it. People are a little sensitive nowadays, to put it lightly.

“If anything we’re making fun of the show’s characters and their idiosyncrasies.”

The reboot “may take three months, or three years,” she added.  

‘It will be gagged’

A FAWLTY Towers star is worried the reboot will lose its comedy edge.

Oscar Peck, 65, who played dining teen Master Wareing in the first ­episode in 1975, said: “It’s a worry how funny it can be, in light of what is allowed.

“The classic lines we loved, such as “don’t mention the war!’, would be censored.”