Cleese and his wife at the time, Connie Booth, thought there was comedy potential in their escapades at the Gleneagles Hotel. John Cleese started experiencing inexplicable health problems that appeared as low grade flu-like symptoms, starting in 1973. Doctors could find nothing physically wrong with him. They suggested that the problems might be psychosomatic and perhaps treatable by psychological therapy. With some trepidation, John entered group counseling.
Executives can now laugh at themselves, in private of course.
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