Cleese laments loss of Bond humour  John Cleese took over the Q
role made famous by Desmond Llewelyn  John Cleese took over the
Q role made famous by Desmond Llewelyn  First published in
National News © by  Comedy star and former Q actor John Cleese
has criticised the later Bond movies for their over-long action
sequences and for sacrificing their British flavour to secure
"big money" from Asia.  The Monty Python actor, 74, starred in
two 007 movies, The World Is Not Enough, in 1999, and three
years later in Die Another Day.  But he hinted to Radio Times
magazine that he was dropped from his role as gadget inventor Q,
in the long-running British franchise, partly because film
bosses wanted to please audiences in Asia.  He suggested that
the spy movies, which have enjoyed renewed success with Daniel
Craig in the lead role, had dispensed with their subtle British
sense of humour.  "I did two James Bond movies and then I
believe that they decided that the tone they needed was that of
the Bourne action movies, wh