I love that Mr. Cleese isn’t politically correct, even though he is a flaming lefty!
He was never a "flaming lefty," even in his interviews from the 1980s. He was a middle class liberal by 1960s standards.
Which by today's standards makes him "worse than Hitler."
Exactly. He’s a raving leftist, but he’s also an intelligent, honest and very funny man who doesn’t want anything to interfere with common sense.
To explain about “common sense,” that’s the basis of humor. That is, having a reality and a realistic reaction to it.
The funny part comes in when people start acting as though reality is not real and crossing the limits of common sense...the very funny cross-dressing movies of years ago, “Some Like It Hot” and “Victor Victoria” were comedies because they were at variance with reality and common sense.
But if you reject those starting points, the humor is gone.