The Monty Python group continuing to entertain the masses many years later.
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.
“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
I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021”
God I loved Monty Python. The John Cleese Hitler skit was an absolute classic.
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