In the course of reading his Creativity: A short and cheerful guide (Crown, 2020), I realized two things about John Cleese:
1) His approach to creativity is exactly the same as David Lynch’s.
2) He would have been as brilliant a philosopher as Douglas Adams.
“The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they are right. That’s the great thing about working in comedy. If the audience doesn’t laugh, you know you’ve got it wrong.”
John Cleese (1939–)