John Cleese (English Wikipedia)

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"'Monty Python' icon John Cleese stumps to be Barack Obama's speechwriter". New York Daily News. New York City. 9 April 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2010.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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nzherald.co.nz (Global: 390^th place; English: 205^th place)

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open.ac.uk (Global: 5,137^th place; English: 3,294^th place)

"Honorary Graduate List". Open University. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

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