John Cleese pays £3,300 taxi fare from Oslo to Brussels!

London: English actor John Cleese is said to have reportedly paid 3,300 pounds as taxi fare from Oslo to Brussels after he was stranded in the Norwegian capital by the volcanic ash plume from Iceland.

Cleese, 70, was in Norway to appear on the Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, and when the cloud descended, closing airspace around the city, he is said to have taken a cab on April 16. “We checked every option, but there were no boat and no train tickets available,” the Guardian quoted him as telling Norwegian TV2 in a telephone interview posted on the network’s website. “That’s when my fabulous assistant determined that the easiest thing would be to take a taxi,” he said. The taxi carried two extra drivers for the 930-mile journey. “It will be interesting. I’m not in a hurry,” Cleese said, adding that from Brussels he planned to take the Eurostar train to London, where he hoped to arrive on April 17. “I will think about a joke you’ve probably already heard: how do you get God to laugh? Tell him your plans,” he added. ANI