This Monday saw the release of the long-awaited new DVD of John Cleese's The Alimony Tour which played to packed houses at the Theatre Royal Bath earlier this year.

This week The Guide has teamed up with ITV Studios Home Entertainment to offer readers the chance of winning one of five copies of the DVD which have been signed by John Cleese.

Cleese who lives for part of the year in Bath's Royal Crescent was in the city on Thursday for the switching on of the city's Christmas lights.

All you have to do to stand a chance of winning one of the DVDs is to answer the following question correctly, put your answer on a postcard and send it to John Cleese DVD Competition, The Bath Chronicle, Westpoint, James Street West, Bath BA1 2DA. The first five correct answers out of the hat next Thursday morning will get the DVDs. The question is: what is the name of John Cleese's ex wife who sparked off The Alimony Tour?

Earlier this year, comedy legend John Cleese embarked on his first live UK tour – The Alimony Tour. The show was received with great enthusiasm all over Britain and it was widely noted that it appealed to an extraordinary range of age groups.

Best known for his idiosyncratic characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Cleese's live show covered all his career highlights, while also taking a pop at former Pythons in the process.

For anyone who missed The Alimony Tour the first time round, the DVD is now on sale featuring a special extras section priced at £19.99.

Cleese has achieved a lot in his career which started as a sketch writer for BBC Radio's Dick Emery Show in 1963.

Then he appeared with David Frost, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett in The Frost Report, and followed this with the much more experimental At Last the 1948 Show, with Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman, and Tim Brook-Taylor.

After this, stardom beckoned and Monty Python was created with Cleese co-writing and starring in three series and four films.

He went on to achieve further great success as the monstrous Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with his then wife Connie Booth.

After huge UK success John cracked the USA with A Fish Called Wanda (which he wrote, and starred in with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Palin). The late 1990s saw the unstoppable Mr Cleese appear in the James Bond movie The World is Not Enough and later Die Another Day.

Cleese has done it all and John Cleese Live! The Alimony Tour, is an amusing jaunt through his glittering career.

Cleese said this week: "It was wonderful to come out on stage and experience the affection that people feel for Python, Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda.

"And there's nothing like loud laughter to keep an elderly comedian going."

The three month sold out live tour kicked off in May this year playing 37 dates at 12 venues across the UK including a successful run at the Theatre Royal Bath.