An evening with the Late John Cleese is set for Saturday night at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York.

Wait! The comedy legend, actor and all-around entertainer John Cleese is dead? Maybe you haven’t heard, but John Cleese was with us on The Spark Friday to confirm those reports in his own satirical way, " I died just over seven weeks ago. It was in all the papers. But I come from a Christian family, so on the third day, I was able to rise again. It's an old Christian trick, and it was taught me by a maternal grandmother of five Bertha. And it's very, very useful going back to life because I need the money."

Cleese looked ahead to the afterlife,"I know that there are many cats were very well looked after in his household. There'll be a whole host of ways me when I die again, because I believe that cats and dogs are far more important than anyone else in our lives. I've often said that I think it's much better to lose a friend and to lose a pet."

Cleese has ideas on how to live, die and the afterlife,"Once I get there and there'll be an instruction booklet, I think when we're born, we should be given a booklet explaining what our life is and what the purpose of life is and what we should be doing. We don't have a booklet like that, but when you get a GED, they have this lovely booklet that tells you exactly what's going on, all the things you have to do. And so there's no doubt about it. You just know what to do. I like that. It's very straightforward. It's much harder being a human being and not really knowing what the point of life is."

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