John Cleese, best known for his role in the Monty Python satirical humour tv shows, has now announced he will be hosting a show on right wing GB News as he believes the BBC to be ‘cowardly’ and that he would be ‘censored or cancelled’ if he were to appear on one of its shows.
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John Cleese
This is rather like that awkward moment... when actor Laurence Fox, now would be politician of the Reform Party, bitterly complained about soldiers with turbans appearing in a British war film. Fox has been seen upset and close to tears about how he himself was the victim of racism. Fox also believes the Covid vaccine is a great conspiracy to forcibly exert control over people.
Or that awkward moment... on FaceBook when one of those nice people in a group you thought were good fun, one day says, ‘Tommy Robinson is my hero’…followed by another and another agreeing, 'Enoch was right'. Er...
Or that awkward moment... when your work colleague blurts out, ‘The Jews killed Jesus’.
<fx backs out of room slowly>
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The 82-year-old said he would not be offered such a show by the BBC: “The BBC have not come to me and said: ‘Would you like to have some one-hour shows?’ And if they did, I would say: ‘Not on your nelly!’ Because I wouldn’t get five minutes into the first show before I’d been cancelled or censored.” <snip> GB News is being investigated by the media regulator Ofcom over whether claims about the impact of Covid vaccines breached the broadcasting code. Asked whether free speech should extend to those spreading misinformation about public health matters, Cleese said: “If there’s a factual response to something like that, then that should be made. That’s the job, to put the facts out there, and then to have opinions slightly separate and have a proper argument about it, but not to try to avoid a public debate.” |
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also said Monty Python would not get commissioned by the BBC today “because it’s six white people, five of whom went to Oxbridge”. |
This is rather like that awkward moment... when actor Laurence Fox, now would be politician of the Reform Party, bitterly complained about soldiers with turbans appearing in a British war film. Fox has been seen upset and close to tears about how he himself was the victim of racism. Fox also believes the Covid vaccine is a great conspiracy to forcibly exert control over people.
Or that awkward moment... on FaceBook when one of those nice people in a group you thought were good fun, one day says, ‘Tommy Robinson is my hero’…followed by another and another agreeing, 'Enoch was right'. Er...
Or that awkward moment... when your work colleague blurts out, ‘The Jews killed Jesus’.
<fx backs out of room slowly>
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