Brodigan - December 17, 2021 at 08:38AM
It's fascinating to watch liberals start to have an opinion or two that isn't liberal, and see their surprise when the formerly adoring media turns on them. John Cleese, a comedy legend, learned that dealing with the BBC. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the only opinion Cleese shares with us at LwC is that Cleese should be allowed to make whatever joke he feels like. He's been on a bit of an anti-cancel culture kick lately. He probably thought, however, he was being interviewed about two upcoming shows. Instead, he got a taste of what it's like to be a conservative talking to the mainstream press.
Here's the first and last of Cleese's thread discussing it. Someone needs to teach him how to thread tweets.
The first question had to do with cancel culture. That's at least kind of on topic. Cleese is a comedian. He's anti-cancel culture. He has two comedy show coming up. The comedy legend politely answered her question and even quoted psychological studies about the downside of woke culture. The interviewer didn't listen. Cleese asked to get back to talking about his two shows in Singapore and Bangkok. This is where the interviewer asked Cleese why he was contributing to the pandemic by doing live shows.
Then, she switched to a question about Dave Chappelle. A man who Cleese has nothing to with, other than them both being comedy legends. The BBC interviewer probably would have asked about JK Rowling next, but at this point, Cleese realized what was going on and left.
The BBC claims this was an appropriate interview done with nothing but the highest journalistic integrity. That tells you everything you need to know about those two words.
Dumbest in all of this? If the BBC reporter had any journalistic integrity, she would have told Cleese what she wanted to talk about ahead of time. He would have had time to prepare, and she would have gotten a great interview.
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