Posted on 06/14/2016 5:15:13 AM PDT by orchestra
COMEDIAN John Cleese has publicly backed the Brexit campaign as he made his views on the European Union clear in series of tweets last night.
The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star also suggested killing European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker would be the best way to reform the European bloc.
A prominent Liberal Democrat supporter, Cleese added it was a "sad" situation and appeared to address his message to party grandee Lord Ashdown, who is campaigning for Remain.
He tweeted: "If I thought there was any chance of major reform in the EU, I'd vote to stay in. But there isn't. Sad. Sorry, Paddy."
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
I guess the EU is hitting his wallet as hard as all his ex-wives.
Hey Brits,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Cleese is also a huge, huge opponent of political correctness and he is extremely Brave to say these things, working as he does in entertainment.
I heard him give a very cerebral analysis of the decline of Comedy.
His basic view is that political correctness brings politics more and more and more into our life, making it difficult to laugh at things.
he says that all comedy is criticism but increasingly people’s mind have become narrowed and they’re unable to Brook any kind of criticism, therefore the role of Comedy is diminishing to almost nothing.
He is very upset about it.
therefore the (f-bomb)role of (f-bomb)Comedy is (f-bomb)diminishing to almost (f-bomb)nothing.
And that is what passes for comedy today.
He's a Liberal Democrat supporter, and he likely backed (even if he couldn't vote for them directly) those responsible for Great Britain's plight, to include his beloved England.
I remember several years back reading a quote by him where he lamented that London was no longer an English city. No sh**, Sherlock. The people you supported did that to you.
So, thanks for the laughs, John, and thanks for a wonderful set of memories as I grew up, but you made your bed, lie in it.
Good for Basil. And fortunately, he didn’t mention the war.
He probably thought he was going to be one of the last with those with their backs up against the wall. Instead, he helped bring restrictive meaningless to his art form.
Aren't the Liberal Democrats a left-wing party? I had the impression that CLeese might be conservative from some remarks he has made, for instance in ridiculing socialism.
Cleese is an atheist who despises Christianity.
It was a huge wake up call to British comedians a decade or so ago, despite their being predominantly liberal, when EU bureaucrats decided that they had the authority to preemptively censor their comedy, on the grounds that it might offend someone. In other words, all professional humor had to be submitted to bureaucrats prior to use.
Cleese is just upset his liberal dogma is finally shi**ing on his front lawn.
Then perhaps he (and others) should dare to be comedic, and devil take the hindmost?
Offending others’ sensibilities didn’t seem to stop him in the past, but ... oh, wait, it’s okay to offend some people, right?
(I say that as someone who has enjoyed some Python, but at the same time finds much of it more than cringeworthy.)
I listened to a recent podcast with him and I don’t believe that’s entirely true, at least not anymore. Maybe his mortality is getting to him, but he said he’s not so sure death is the end and thought there was something after. Not exactly a profession of faith, but there is hope for everybody.
Well, it is only one small hanging, after all...
Christopher Hitchens had a similar epiphany not long before he died, and even Richard Dawkins said there is no absolute proof of the nonexistence of God, not unlike Cleese’s belief now.
But there was that interview in 2011 where Cleese really unloaded on Christian belief.
Maybe it was the news of that Hungarian gravediggers’ contest last week. Cleese thought, what a wonderful Monty Python sketch that would make, until thoughts of his own mortality intervened. My guess.
IMHO, Fawlty Towers was simply one of the best television shows ever.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.