The feud between "journalist" Piers Morgan and funny man John Cleese reached epic proportions Friday in a tweet heard 'round the world.

The first shot was fired in February when Cleese railed against British newspaper editors, calling them "liars" who want control and to be "free to do what they damn well like." He went on to say the press is "sociopathic" and accused them of "monstrous behavior." He continued:

Of course they want to regulate themselves, we'd all like to regulate ourselves wouldn't we? Builders, accountants, murderers, they'd all like to regulate themselves. The murderers would make a very good case - they'd say we murdered a lot of people, we know people who have murdered people. We really are best qualified to regulate ...

Morgan took issue with the attack on his profession:

Last month in a piece for The Daily Mail, Morgan recalled being "two feet away" from the Monty Python actor in a New York restaurant and seemed offended that his fellow Brit ignored him. Morgan wrote:

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. It was magnificently British.

Cut to Friday when Cleese dropped this Holy Grail of a bomb:

I believe he just farted in your general direction, Sir Morgan.

Consequently, Cleese's tweet became his biggest one yet. He thanked Morgan profusely: