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Monty Python Star John Cleese To Make Formal Complaint Regarding The “Dishonesty, Deception, And Tone” Of Recent Interview With BBC World News
Bounding Into Comics ^ | December 19, 2021 | Josh Berger

Posted on 12/20/2021 11:03:26 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx

"Comedy legend John Cleese, best known for his many roles in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, will be making a formal complaint about the “deception, dishonesty and tone” of a recent interview he did with BBC World News’ Karishma Vaswani.

Cleese is currently working on an upcoming documentary series that is set to explore the effects of cancel culture on comedy. With this project in mind, BBC World News reporter Karishma Vaswani asked the comedian what exactly is it that interests him about the particularly shameful practice.

“Well, it’s a relatively new phenomenon, and of course it affects comedians because a lot of us do jokes that the cancel culture people…woke people don’t think are right, or don’t think are correct, ” Cleese asserted. “So, I’ve been asked to do the program, and so I’ve been exploring and I’ve been reading quite a lot of books, and trying to understand what it’s all about. But it’s quite a complex matter, and it seems to be boiling down to the fact that…I think some people are rather overprotective.”

“I mean, we all want parents to be protective, but we don’t want them to be overprotective because that raises children who are no, perhaps, very well going to adapt to the real world,” the Monty Python star elaborated.

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It was at this point that the BBC reporter attempted to counter Cleese’s clearly-educated opinion on the phenomenon. ..."

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1 posted on 12/20/2021 11:03:26 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Those commies never try that cut off then lecture stuff when you are in the same room, only when you are at a remote location.


2 posted on 12/20/2021 11:03:35 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Not a knock on Cleese, but John Cleese is a comedian first, he’s not a Jordan Pererson.

Jordan Peterson can logically annihilate anyone trying to ambush him.


3 posted on 12/20/2021 11:07:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Well I will bookmark this for later reading. That guy is and always had been pretty funny.

Cancel at will


4 posted on 12/20/2021 11:08:55 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Secret Agent Man

He and all the Monty python ers went to Cambridge. He’s no slouch, educationally.


5 posted on 12/20/2021 11:11:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

True

but he isn’t a professional arguer/debater or in a profession where you are always explaining and defending your logic and at the same time finding flaws in others’ positions


6 posted on 12/20/2021 11:18:54 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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7 posted on 12/20/2021 11:32:29 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

But John was personally attacked and hurt by the reporter for which she should be canceled! That interview was a classical example of an Act of Cancel Culture at it finest which escaped the reporter. The BBC justified her actions as acceptable because she was of the protected class of Journalist while poor John was just a Comedian, which is a classic example yet again Of Cancel Culture in action. John has used his comedic talent of absurdity to demonstrate Cancel Culture at it’s finest, but this point was lost on both the reporter and the BBC since they are too Woke. Thank you John for pointing out the utter inability of The Woke Culture to understand Comedy!


8 posted on 12/20/2021 11:44:20 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
"Comedy legend John Cleese, best known for his many roles in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, will be making a formal complaint about the “deception, dishonesty and tone” of a recent interview he did with BBC World News’ Karishma Vaswani.

The whole time I was reading this article, I kept hoping that it would end with the punchline of John Cleese being suddenly suspended by his heels from a 7th-story window, and offering a full retraction of his complaint and a full apology for his past "edgy" comedy (à la "A Fish Named Wanda").

Regards,

9 posted on 12/20/2021 11:50:11 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

KKkkken will get revenge!


10 posted on 12/21/2021 12:05:02 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

“You want to complain! Look at these shoes. I’ve only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through.”


11 posted on 12/21/2021 12:06:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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12 posted on 12/21/2021 12:10:54 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Has the BBC ever apologized for Jimmy Saville?


13 posted on 12/21/2021 12:11:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I came in here for an argument!


14 posted on 12/21/2021 12:13:24 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: mylife

No you didn’t!


15 posted on 12/21/2021 12:18:52 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

an argument, or just gainsay?


16 posted on 12/21/2021 12:19:40 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: dfwgator

Yes i did! that was never 5 mins!


17 posted on 12/21/2021 12:19:59 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: Mr Radical

refer to post #7 :)


18 posted on 12/21/2021 12:21:11 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: Mr Radical

btw , love your tagline :)


19 posted on 12/21/2021 12:22:28 AM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Cancel Culture has been going on in the UK media for 50 years, since the days comedians such as Benny Hill were cast out.
It’s almost amusing to watch how succesive generations of comedians, edgy and left for their day, are now considered too right-wing!
A sure sign how things have progressed!


20 posted on 12/21/2021 12:23:23 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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