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John Cleese delivered a series of sizzling burns to Piers Morgan on Twitter today

Ouch.

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AS FAR AS Twitter beefs go, this was a veritable beef bourguignon.

A few weeks ago, Piers Morgan penned an article for the Mail on Sunday in which he detailed a close encounter with veteran comedian John Cleese in a New York restaurant.

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Despite sitting next to one another, the pair avoided making niceties and instead opted to totally blank each other.

For one tiny nanosecond, our eyes locked in mutual shock, then equally mutual withering contempt. For the next two hours, we avoided all form of contact – physical, verbal, visual.

This morning, John Cleese referred to the article on Twitter and instigated what would become an immensely entertaining back-and-forth.

Piers Morgan then corrected him and provided him with a link to the article…

And asked the Fawlty Towers star when he was going to be funny again.

First of all, John Cleese politely ignored Morgan and threw this excellent piece of shade his way.

Before delivering this sizzling burn.

OH SNAP, SOMEONE CALL THE AMBULANCE.

Morgan tried his best to keep the battle going with some decidedly lame efforts.

But in the end, we think that Cleese won this bout.

Savlon to Piers, stat.

Prince Harry was knighted by his granny and the internet ripped the piss out of him >

Piers Morgan went on the lash with Ryan Tubridy after last night’s Late Late Show> 

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    Jun 5th 2015, 5:38 PM

    Piers Morgan is the definition of a human slug

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    Jun 5th 2015, 8:15 PM

    Cleese outside of his comedy roles is slug slime.

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    Jun 5th 2015, 5:16 PM

    Twitters dumb

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