Posted on 11/15/2021 7:39:27 AM PST by Rio
John Cleese decided to cancel himself and call off a planned appearance at Cambridge University after a fellow attendee was "blacklisted" for doing an impersonation of Adolf Hitler.
Taking to Twitter ahead of his planned appearance, Cleese, who is a Cambridge alumnus, noted that he was getting ahead of being "blacklisted" by calling off his appearance after art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was blacklisted by Cambridge Union President Keir Bradwell for doing a mocking rant as Hitler to make a point in a debate about whether or not "good taste" exists.
"I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler," the 82-year-old "Monty Python" and "Fawlty Towers" comedian noted. "I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."
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Probably the funniest episode.
Good for corporal LeBeau.
I liked “The Builders” episode, too.
“If the Good Lord”
“Is mentioned once more, I shall move you closer to Him!”
Oh Mr. Bimmler....you do have us on!
"Just going to see O'Reilly dear!"
Pleased to meet you, squire. I also am not of Minehead being born
but I in your Peterborough Lincolnshire was given birth to. But am
staying in Peterborough Lincolnshire house all time during vor, due
to jolly old running sores, and vos unable to go in the streets or to
go visit football matches or go to Nuremburg. Ha ha. Am retired
vindow cleaner and pacifist, without doing war crimes. Oh...and am
glad England vin Vorld Cup. Bobby Charlton. Martin Peters. And
eating I am lots of chips and fish and hole in the toads and Dundee
cakes on Piccadilly Line, don’t you know old chap, vot! And I vos
head of Gestapo for ten years.
(Hilter elbows him in the ribs)
Ah! Five years!
(Hilter elbows him again, harder)
Nein! No! Oh. NOT head of Gestapo AT ALL! I was not, I make joke!
“Shhh. Don’t mention the war.”
Comedy is defiance. That's what gets the lefty woke so upset.
You're supposed to get in goose step with them and say, "jawohl mein fuehrer!"
“Oh you’re German, I thought there was something wrong with you”!
I fart in your general direction, Cambridge.
“So that’s two eggs mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering and four Colditz salads!”
Good on ya.
Exactly how the Anti Fascists think.
If your not one of us you're defective, and what do you do with defects?
Why, you either correct them or scrap them.
LOL, no they ran him out for being a commie (in the mid to late 50's).
IIRC, Chaplin was a commie wasn’t he? Fundamentally, not much difference at some levels-it is a well known fact that for communists, fascists are regarded as a fertile breeding recruiting ground for them, and for the fascists, vice versa.
An interesting phenomenon that in the years leading up to WWII, both sides understood this as a given.
I saw Robert Clary speak at Rollins College in the mid-1980s, where he talked about his Holocaust experience. As far as I know, he’s the only member of the “Hogan’s Heroes” cast that is still alive.
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One of my dads friends was crew of B16 during WW2. Got shot down spent the remainder of war in a Stalag. Still had fragments of metal in his legs when he died at 76yo. One of his favorite shows was Hogans Heroes. To his dying day he was ticked off because certain cities were not bombed during the war.
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