CULTUREMonty Python Legend Cancelled By Old Vic Theater For Recommending Chapelle Special

https://summit.news ^ | 16 December, 2021 | Steve Watson

[CatOwner]

The Monty Python group continuing to entertain the masses many years later.

[Magnum44]

[crusty old prospector]

Ha ha.

[Vermont Lt]

I am sure he is heart-broken.

Without his name on the marquee... I am sure that will increase revenues. They will get Greta Thronberg to direct...

[Mr. K]

BRILLIANT digs against them!!!!!!!!!!!

Not one but several!

[ClearCase_guy]

Most, if not all, of the Monty Python people are pretty far on the Left. But not far enough. Now they are getting mugged by Liberalism. Will they get red-pilled? I doubt it. They will look through the keyhole and decide that in this particular instance, under these circumstances, someone did something stupid. But, the wider picture will elude them. You know, people like Trump are still Hitler, socialism still works, and life should go on as it always has. Those guys are funny, and smart, but not smart enough.

[Rurudyne]

Remember the colosseum scene in The Life of Brian?

We live in an age where it’s like all the comedy and satire of the past has been brought to mind and the culture is saying “Hold my beer!”

An updated version of the Four Yourshiremen would feature the exact same individuals competing to claim to be the most oppressed minority rather than the poorest.

[brownsfan]

Cleese got it half right. Not going is standing up, but starting with “I regret I did the same”, there should be no regret. It was comedy for crying out loud.

[comebacknewt]

Pretty sure all the Pythons were liberals, but not insanely so.

Nice to see Gilliam eviscerate the lunatics that have taken over and now make up a majority of the Left.

[Leaning Right]

Wow. So now you can get cancelled for merely mentioning Dave Chappelle. We are quickly approaching Soviet-style censorship. Well, at least no one is getting shot (yet).

And now it’s time for something completely difference (hat tip to Monty Python).

A joke set in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union:

Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the increase in food prices?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.

[FreeReign]

William’s Monty Python brethren John Cleese has also made it his mission to speak out against cancel culture, ironically opting to cancel himself recently “before someone else does.”

Ha! I didn't know Cleese canceled himself.

[Red Badger]

[Vision]

Cultural communism.

[Red Badger]

I think he was being a bit sarcastic in his remark.................

[KarlInOhio]

“My unspeakable crime was recommending my Facebook followers to watch a Netflix special by a brilliant and provocative American comedian, and then share with me their opinions.” “They did and civilisation did not collapse!

That's the problem. There are forces trying to collapse civilization, but when you push back and civilization doesn't collapse they get in a tizzy.

[brownsfan]

“I think he was being a bit sarcastic in his remark.................”

Maybe. His action would seem to indicate that, but in this world, you don’t know. He could genuinely regret that part of his comedy. And that would be sad.

[Boogieman]

“Those guys are funny, and smart, but not smart enough.”

Well, if they are smart enough to see that liberalism is better than communism, that may be smart enough for me, for now. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

[Boogieman]

I don’t think he actually regrets it, that’s just backhanded English sarcasm.

[wbarmy]

That full 180 degree twist with the other foot never touching the ground is incredible. He is a great comedian and a fantastic dancer. I wonder how good a shot he is.