John Cleese
John Cleese Likens King Charles Coronation to Monty Python: “I Couldn’t Stop Laughing”
The British comedian had a hard time wrapping his head around "all these people in these silly costumes." John Cleese Likens King Charles Coronation to Monty Python: “I Couldn’t Stop Laughing” Bryan Kress
John Cleese to Write and Star in New Fawlty Towers Revival
The updated story will have new guests to wrangle, new technologies to suffer under, and so many more wars not to mention. John Cleese to Write and Star in New Fawlty Towers Revival Wren Graves
John Cleese Blasts “Woke Rules” at Cambridge After Speaker Banned for Hitler Impression
John Cleese has pulled out of a planned appearance at Cambridge University as a show of solidarity with Andrew Graham-Dixon, who was permanently blacklisted after giving a speech in which he impersonated Adolf Hitler. “I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me,” Cleese wrote on Twitter, “but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply.” Graham-Dixon is an art historian and television presenter, and on November 9th he participated in a debate at the Cambridge Union with the prompt, “This house believes there is no such thing as good taste.” Via the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Graham-Dixon spoke in opposition of that motion. As part of his argument that good taste exists, he launched into a German accent for what Union President Keir Bradwell...
John Cleese is Hosting a Show About Cancel Culture
Attention, anyone who’s ever been cancelled: John Cleese is looking for you. The veteran comedian and actor is set to host his own show called John Cleese: Cancel Me. According to The Guardian, he docu-series, which is set to air on the UK’s Channel 4, will feature the 81-year-old Monty Python star tackling the concept of woke thought by interviewing both figures who’ve been cancelled in the public arena and activists who helped champion the cancelling. “I’m delighted to have a chance to find out, on camera, about all the aspects of so-called political correctness. There’s so much I really don’t understand, like: how the impeccable idea of ‘Let’s all be kind to people’ has been developed in some cases ad absurdum,” Cleese said in a statement. Advertisement Related Video He continued: “I wa...
Javier Grillo-Marxuach Delivers Commentary Track for Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Their obsession. Their words. Someone else’s movie. Hosted by Paul Davidson, The Side Track interviews filmmakers, producers, writers, actors, and film fanatics, then hands them the mic to present their own personal feature-length audio commentaries of the movies that moved them and made them who they are today. This week, writer and producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) joins the show and talks about that Star Wars moment when he knew he wanted to write. He shares how his first gig as an NBC Development Executive turned into his first job on Seaquest DSV, and how he lande...
John Cleese Defends J.K. Rowling with His Own Transphobic Tweetstorm
John Cleese has some donkey-brained takes on transgender people. On Sunday, the 81-year-old Monty Python actor went on a tweetstorm of callous transphobia and cringey old man musings on wokeness that culminated with him saying: “I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans people.” It all started when a Twitter… Please click the link below to read the full article. John Cleese Defends J.K. Rowling with His Own Transphobic Tweetstorm Eli Enis You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet rev...
John Cleese Mocks Fox News for False Reporting on a Monty Python Quote
“What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” Not everyone knows the answer to that cult-favorite query, least of all news anchors. Fox News proved as much to be true when they fell for a similarly popular Monty Python and the Holy Grail joke while covering Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, going so far as to mistakenly cite a quote from the film as fact. Now, John Cleese is mocking them for it, reports UPROXX. It all began when Martha MacCallum, the host of Fox News’ segment The Story, was reporting on the CHAZ zone in Seattle, claiming that there were leadership problems within the group. As proof of such, MacCallum pointed to a screenshot of a Reddit post entitled “I didn’t vote for Raz”. (“Raz” refers to Raz Simone, the rapper and alleged unofficial leader of CHAZ.) “I ...
John Cleese Calls Removal of Fawlty Towers Episode That Uses N-Word “Stupid”
As a wave of media companies are pulling content that could be deemed offensively racist, the BBC-owned UKTV has removed a classic episode of the sitcom Fawlty Towers for its use of racial slurs. The show’s star and writer John Cleese has spoken out against the removal, saying executives trying “to hang onto their jobs” are “too stupid to see that” the episode was mocking the derogatory language, not supporting it. In the episode, entitled “The Germans”, Cleese’s Basil Fawlty has a conversation with Ballard Berkeley’s Major Gowen. The Major recalls a time he took a woman to a cricket game played by an Indian team, during which he uses racial epithets when referring to Indians (“w*gs”) and West Indians (“n*ggers”). While the episode is remembered fondly for its repetition of the phrase “don...
