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Cancel Me: John Cleese to present Channel 4 show on ‘woke’ thought
The Guardian ^ | 23 Aug 2021

Posted on 08/29/2021 7:56:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA

John Cleese will take on the topic of “cancel culture” in a forthcoming television series for the UK’s Channel 4. The new documentary will reportedly explore “why a new ‘woke’ generation is trying to rewrite the rules on what can and can’t be said”.

The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star has come under fire himself for his previous work. In June 2020, Cleese responded angrily to a UKTV decision to remove from streaming an episode of his comedy Fawlty Towers that contained “racial slurs”.

The episode, The Germans, contained a scene in which the character of Major Gowen uses racist language in an anecdote about the West Indies cricket team. Cleese told the Age at the time: “If you put nonsense words into the mouth of someone you want to make fun of, you’re not broadcasting their views, you’re making fun of them. The major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them. If they can’t see that – if people are too stupid to see that – what can one say?”

The episode was later reinstated on the platform with a content and language warning.

“[Political correctness] stuff started out as a good idea, which is, ‘Let’s not be mean to people’, and I’m in favour of that despite my age,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in September 2020. “The main thing is to try to be kind. But that then becomes a sort of indulgence of the most over-sensitive people in your culture, the people who are most easily upset … I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society...

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I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society...

Amen !!!

1 posted on 08/29/2021 7:56:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Best news I’ve heard in months!


2 posted on 08/29/2021 8:00:44 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: 11th_VA

He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay...


3 posted on 08/29/2021 8:01:06 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: 11th_VA

good we need to bring out real comedy big guns to fight this crap. Chevy Chase and John Clease will do just fine.


4 posted on 08/29/2021 8:01:39 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: 11th_VA
Not too long ago I heard Cleese being quoted,when speaking about immigration in Britain,as aving said something like “I cannot recognize London as being a British city today”.

If he actually said anything like that that would suggest that he's not just another showbiz Maoist.

5 posted on 08/29/2021 8:02:17 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: 11th_VA

I’ve come to have an argument.


6 posted on 08/29/2021 8:03:25 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: 11th_VA

Just don’t mention the war


7 posted on 08/29/2021 8:04:40 PM PDT by xp38
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To: 11th_VA

John Cleese has become grouchy and ready to argue as he ages, but he still wishes to entertain once in a while.
John is going to be one of those very old people with all their mental faculties along with a performer’s drive to hold an audience. Go for the gusto, John!
I hope I’ve still got it together at that age

John C. will turn 81 y/o on Oct. 27th.
just one day after Hillary Clinton turns 74.
Hillary is not a comedian.


8 posted on 08/29/2021 8:05:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Gay State Conservative

Cleese has been VERY vocal about the dangers of “political correctness.”


9 posted on 08/29/2021 8:05:53 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: 11th_VA
Cleese is rare in that he’s a liberal who is willing to speak up about liberal excesses. Plus he knows that if this wokeness continues, eventually all silly walks will be outlawed.


10 posted on 08/29/2021 8:07:39 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: cuban leaf

“I’ve come to have an argument.”

No you didn’t.


11 posted on 08/29/2021 8:11:25 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: JennysCool

John has wisdom at his age. Wisdom is smart plus common sense.


12 posted on 08/29/2021 8:11:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: 11th_VA
“From the point of creativity, if you have to keep thinking which words you can use and which you can’t, then that will stifle creativity."

Perfect Example is George Carlin

Fear of Germs

13 posted on 08/29/2021 8:12:28 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: Gay State Conservative
An insightful 4Chan (they do exist) on John Cleese's comments about how London has changed.


14 posted on 08/29/2021 8:14:16 PM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: jerod

Lumberjack? That was Michael Palin, the cheese-less cheese shop owner and pet store proprietor of stiffened Norwegian Blue Parrots pining for the fjords.


15 posted on 08/29/2021 8:16:24 PM PDT by katana
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To: 11th_VA

Sometimes Cancel Culture has a bright side. Dua Lipa put out a song named “Levitating”. But then she put out a second version of the song, featuring DaBaby. That version totally sucked, and it was played nine out of 10 times. Then word leaked out about DaBaby having made some “homophobic” remarks in the past. Now the version of the song featuring him is only played one out of 10 times, which is great, as it really really sucks. DaBaby also was kicked out of Lallopalooza and other events.


16 posted on 08/29/2021 8:26:09 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: 11th_VA

You’ve done a great job of finding and sharing links to treasures like “Story of a Patriot” and “Song of the South”...hope you can find and share one for this series once it appears across the pond.


17 posted on 08/29/2021 8:26:16 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SlipperySlope99

Brilliant!


18 posted on 08/29/2021 8:27:09 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society...

Amen !!!

Spot on!

19 posted on 08/29/2021 8:27:41 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Cancel culture isn’t about the most easily upset. It’s about the groups that the high income progressives who run everything are favoring.


20 posted on 08/29/2021 8:32:17 PM PDT by lasereye
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