John Cleese is now appearing on my website and I am delighted to have him here. John, who has recently been in hospital has just sent his latest Nigerian Lottery email talking about all the things he is up to. As part of that he has widgetised some of his old commercials (Accurist, Schweppes) which can be played on any site (you can find them on John’s site). You can see them on the right below my friendfeed bar (double click the play button to make it work.) As a young nipper I hadn’t seen many of his adverts so it was a pleasure to find them here without endless trawling on You Tube.

John has always been at the forefront of these digital channels including a large twitter following and a global Q&A with Seesmic. With Seesmic, John answered questions posed to him by Seesmic users one day last Autumn. I was particularly delighted that he responded to my daughter which made my day and gave my daughter a huge story to tell at school, after she’d explained what seesmic was!