John Cleese doesn’t gladly suffer woke fools. The legendary comic actor has pulled out of an appearance at the Cambridge Union as a protest. Ironically, The Union has banned Andrew Graham Dixonon, an artist critic, from appearing at the Cambridge Union as Adolf Hitler in a last week debate.
Cleese tweeted:
While I looked forward to speaking to students at Cambridge Union, I have heard from someone that they are blacklisting someone for an illegal act.
Hitler impersonationIt is a regrettable thing that I have done the same for Monty Python, and I will blacklist myself to prevent someone else doing it.
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021
The impression came in a classic Python skit, “Mr. Hilter and the Minehead by-election.”
The sketch is absurdity itself — and, of course, extremely funny. Cleese later did something very similar in Fawlty towers. Those were good times. But that was before humor became a taboo subject.
Wokeness hasn’t been kind to the surviving members of Monty Python. Recently the Old Vic theater in London canceled a production of Into the Woods Terry Gilliam was still developing. Cast and crew apparently were uncomfortable because Gilliam isn’t as stridently progressive as them. While he applauded Dave Chapelle via social media, he didn’t join the #Metoo gangs. A few years ago he said “I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian… My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.”
And Cleese himself has been an outspoken defender of author J.K. Rowling, who’s been savaged on social media and elsewhere for suggesting that men pretending to be women aren’t really, ya know, women.
The funny thing is Cleese was going to Cambridge as part of a documentary on wokeness called “Cancel Me.” He won’t be lacking for content.
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