Sunday Night: Nov 6

Sunday Night‘s Ross Coulthart has an interview with John Cleese, who was in Australia about two months ago on a promotional visit.

Cleese is touring his one man show An Evening With John Cleese around Australia in 2012.

JOHN CLEESE
He’s had us in stitches for nearly half a century, and now one of the funniest men in the world sits down with Sunday Night for an interview you’ll never forget. Now 72 years old, John Cleese is touring the world because, as he says, it’s the best way to earn money. “I have fallen on hard times… partly, because I am now on the far-side of romantic leading roles, but also because I’ve just been through a costly and acrimonious divorce…” John Cleese’s divorce cost him $20 million, and he tells Ross Coulthart what he really thinks about his ex-wife. In his most revealing interview yet, John Cleese talk about love, life and the true stories behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. A special treat on Sunday Night, a very funny evening with John Cleese.

FIGHTING FEAR
Two mates angry with the world – taking on anyone who gets in their way. Mark Mathews and Richie Vaculik lived life on the edge. Best mates from Maroubra, they spent most of their teenage years in and out of trouble. But when these violent and dangerous ‘Bra Boys’ hit rock bottom, they knew if they were to turn their lives around they would need each other. Mark’s focus is now big wave surfing, while Richie’s life passion is cage fighting. Together they’re telling their remarkable story with the help of acclaimed filmmaker and friend, Macario De Souza – best known for his first feature length documentary, Bra Boys. The film, Fighting Fear, is three years in the making and follows the lives of Mark and Richie as they move from the street days of partying, drinking at fighting in Maroubra, to the very different lives they lead today.

NEAR MISS
There are nearly 20,000 asteroids circling near Earth. Some are big enough to destroy a city. The largest could wipe out the world. This week NASA revealed the biggest asteroid ever to narrowly miss Earth will pass by the Moon in just a few days. As dinosaurs roamed the planet 65 million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Sydney harbour crashed into central America – turning day into night for a year and allowing very little to survive. But can it happen again? Most are 90 million kilometres away, but for those that get caught in a gravitational pull, and many do, the danger is very real. Join Sunday Night’s Alex Cullen in the Catalina Mountains north of Tuscon, Arizona, as he tracks these incredible objects which could create global catastrophic consequences.

Sunday November 6 at 6.30pm on Seven.