Posted on 04/20/2009 1:10:57 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA, NY--Nearly six months after the Presidential election, former Monty Python star John Cleese needs some new material.
According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Cleese, in an appearance on campus, turned serious and launched into an attack on former President George W. Bush:
Americans... are “much too respectful to the president,” said Cleese, who went on to say that George W. Bush would not be able to survive a single press conference in England.
“It’s pathetic!” he exclaimed. “This is the most important country in the world ... It’s embarrassing because we want America to be great. There is emotion when I said that that because in the 60s we looked up to the U.S. as a beacon, because it was a smart place.”
“Eight years of this rubbish,” he continued. “The Brits were asking, “where is the American’s sense of outrage?”
According to the article Cleese's talk was part of his duties as a visiting professor:
Cleese has been Cornell’s A.D. White Professor-at-large for eight years since 1999 — two years longer than the normal term. In 2006, he was re-appointed as the Provost’s Visiting Professor. Fuchs yesterday said that Cleese had just verbally agreed to extend the three-year term.
Seriously, most of Monty Python was only funny if you were stoned out of your gourd.
I own the box set of the Flying Circus. Paid 200.00 bucks for it. I sat watching it wondering what I found so funny.
Hey, Cleese: I fart in your general direction.
(I loved Holy Grail, by the way.)
I have the same set -
any bids?
John Cleese has lived in the US for some time now (which again, raises the question why you would want to live here if we are all bloody stupid rednecks). He is or was married to Connie Booth, his co-star from Fawlty Towers, who is from Wisconsin. Disappointing as so much of the humor on Monty Python had a decided Tory angle to it, particularly as it pertains to taxes.
My husband and I bought the set at Half-Price books for $4.99 last year.
I still find them hilarious (watching the “Flying Circus” was one of the things that brought my husband and I together) but, unlike some of the team, I have retained my sense of humor. Although I must admit that it is difficult to maintain in these “Obamanation” times.
That Andy Griffith info is going to break my momma’s heart as she loves both him and former President Bush. She is definitely not fond of “That One”, to say the least.
Wow! I’m happy I was mistaken. The tea party in New York’s city hall park surprised me too. Silent majority? I hope so.
He is or was married to Connie Booth,
Was. That's long over. He and a subsequent wife have or are divorcing.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/faculty/bernal.html
Mr. Cleese has (or is going) through his 3rd divorce. Married American all three times. I can only suppose that Mrs. Cleese III is taking him to the proverbial cleaners.
He made the news last January when his 27-year old ex-paramour (she turned out to be 40-something) revealed a bit too much to the tabloids.
No wonder he’s a bitter old f@r+.
I don't think so. If I remember correctly, Fawn Liebowitz was killed when a kiln exploded.
Oh yeah, she was making me a pot.
Crap damn..... I hate learning that favorite entertainers are lefties and moonbats...I cannot enjoy their work at all afterwards. Basically I’ve only got Bugs Bunny reruns, and Ted Nugent....
(don’t anyone DARE tell me Bugs Bunny is a moonbat!!)
Bugs does tend to dress in drag a bit.........
Just sayin. :)
I guess my sense of humor has changed.
>.Bugs Bunny
But he does kiss Elmer Fudd on the mouth a bunchoftimes.
I got the same set on sale at Amazon for about $130, but I agree with you, to a degree. I've come to the realization that Brit humor can be hilarious, as long as it's taken in small doses at a time. I found that if I try watching more than about 2 episodes of any Brit comedy at a time, I find it becomes less and less funny. This includes Monty Python, Hitchhikers Guide, and Fawlty Towers.
If you only watch one or two episodes at a time, I find them to be funny. Though I do have to admit that I really only find about 1/2 of the MP sketches funny any more.
Finally, for some reason I've never been able to explain or understand, to me the funniest Monty Python bit ever was "The Fish Slapping Dance." I don't know why, but it always cracks me up!
Mark
That tends to happen.
To each his own and all. :)
Maybe I just tried to watch too many at a time.
We did get it in half hour episodes on PBS. Maybe one at a time will be better.
John Cleese is better as Nearly Headless Nick anyway.
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