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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Team Cleese.
He should have turned it around on her when she made the ageist slur that his ideas were old-fashioned. He is, and always has been ahead of his time—one of the most forward-thinking conceptualists out there.
What a precious little snot she was in that interview.
True. And before that, according to Wikipedia,
When he was 13, he was awarded [a scholarship] at Clifton College, an English [private] school... Cleese allegedly defaced the school grounds, as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet.
Yes and from his active imagination has given the world a great body of good comedy
Played the Holy Grail for the young adults here and they are now great fans
Oh, you want to talk about cancel culture, do you? Here, you’re cancelled, how does that feel? LOL
He probably did think about it, you know...because he is too old and stuff.
Kidding!
And thats exactly what he should have done.
I’m just saying he’s not used to this type of treatment in an interview. I brought up Jordan because he is, and he logically destroys people who do this to him.
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