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I suspect I should apologise for my affection for the Englishness of my upbringing,
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 29, 2019
but in some ways I found it calmer, more polite, more humorous, less tabloid, and less money-oriented than the one that is replacing it https://t.co/ZntbORfQdW
England 2019. Things have changed. pic.twitter.com/4bUYz8vqT3— David Vance (@DVATW) May 29, 2019
Mass immigration is a bad thing.
Isn't that what they said when the Normans moved in?
The racial and ethnic makeup of Amsterdam as of 2012 was 49.5% Dutch and 50.5% foreign ancestry.
John Cleese defends right to offend after slavery joke goes viral
Cleese offended journalists at the SXSW festival when he responded to fellow comedian Dulce Sloan, who is black, when she made a joke about colonization.
By Ian Miles Cheong | March 16, 2022 | News Analysis
John Cleese defends right to offend after slavery joke goes viralAP Photo/Amel Emric
British comedian John Cleese, best known for his work in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python is doubling down on his right to tell jokes.
Amid efforts to cancel him over a joke about slavery at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas over the weekend, Cleese defended his jokes and told mainstream news publications to grow “a sense of humour.”
“Next time the editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour,” said the veteran comedian in a tweet.
“Otherwise it’s like sending someone deaf to review a concert,” said Cleese, doubling down on his right to make light of sensitive subjects. Some might even call him “ableist” for daring to suggest that deaf people aren’t able to hear.
Next time the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour
Otherwise it's like sending someone deaf to review a concert
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2022
During his appearance at “John Cleese in Conversation” at SXSW, the comedian made several jokes now considered cancellable offences by the woke brigade, including one about how the British are due reparations by Italy, in reference to the Roman conquest of Britain.
Cleese offended attending journalists when he responded to fellow comedian Dulce Sloan, who is black, when she made a joke about colonization. He suggested that she was given “free passage.”
The comedian suggested that people tend to “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years — the British didn’t start [colonizing].”
“We know, but ya’ll did it so well!” Sloan replied. “It’s the reason I’m here! I’m not supposed to be here!”
“We gave you free passage, too,” Cleese quipped.
While the crowd was briefly taken aback by the joke, no one really minded apart from the entertainment reporter, who complained that Cleese was now “apparently getting quite sincere” when he elaborated on his political views.
“History is a history of crime,” Cleese reportedly said. “It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker, and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”
“The Dutch are the problem,” replied Sloan.
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese continued. “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400.”
Cleese’s remarks met uncomfortable replies from the other attending comedians, who attempted to change the subject. Their discomfort seemed to feed into Cleese’s desire to keep going.
“I want reparations from Italy,” Cleese said, adding “and then the Normans came over in 1066… they were horrible people from France, and they came and colonized us for 30 years — we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”
Cleese’s remarks prompted Sloan to jokingly confiscate Cleese’s microphone while the audience laughed.
While the audience and the rest of the panel clearly enjoyed Cleese’s jokes, publications like the Hollywood Reporter went off on the comedian to condemn him for his spicy remarks, which entertainment reporter James Hibberd described as “cringey awkwardness.”
On Twitter, Cleese defended his jokes to the woke mob, explaining the joke to one person who appeared to miss the point.
Quite right, Sajid. But that was the joke
The ridiculousness of the comparison was the joke
But if you lack a sense of irony, you might not realise
that. But that's not a good reason to deprive people
who do understand irony of a good laugh https://t.co/zRXi4hpaHZ?source=patrick.net
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2022
“The ridiculousness of the comparison was the joke,” Cleese said. “But if you lack a sense of irony, you might not realise that. But that's not a good reason to deprive people who do understand irony of a good laugh.”
Monday 10 October 2022 - 11:38
GB News confirmed today that actor, comedian, writer, and producer John Cleese will host a new series on the channel next year.
The programme will feature John in conversation with his choice of guests on a wide range of areas that interest him. Mr Cleese revealed the news this morning in an interview with journalist Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4’s Today Show.
The new show marks John’s return to UK television after a three-year hiatus. He last appeared on British screens in the sitcom Hold the Sunset in 2019.
The Executive Producer of his programme will be comedian and writer Andrew Doyle, who hosts Free Speech Nation on GB News.
Andrew is also Executive Producer of the channel’s nightly newspaper review show, Headliners, hosted entirely by comedians.
Andrew said: "John will have complete creative freedom to have the conversations he wants to have with the people who interest him most.
"Like John himself, it will be far from predictable.”
Cleese is absolutely correct. London is not English anymore. That was the primary goal of globalists - eliminating all distinct national cultures so that there may be no national opposition to global capital owning and running the whole planet. And that goal has been achieved in London.