CNN has failed miserably judging by its ratings and its own polling data. One popular Fox News program has a bigger rating than almost all of CNN's together and is considered to be a reliable source along with OANN. A new poll from CNN and shown on CNN shows that their own viewers have 0% interest (ZERO PERCENT) in Trump/Russia collusion stories and yet now that the report summary has been given, the CNN news "personalities" are still talking about the things that their viewers aren't interested in. The largest number on their poll was about the immigration problem, but the CNN people were not even talking about it. If the BBC reflected upon their viewers' interests, they might bring forth a different set of stories or as John Cleese said, "Try pointing out the pros and cons legitimately" (paraphrased). That used to be called "journalistic integrity" and it was also called news reporting. News is now political advocacy, even on the BBC and France24.
@Numinous123 : You missed the point entirely along with this news presenter. Journalism protects society by bringing issues to light independently and allowing people to make up their own mind. CNN hired someone who secretly gave away the questions to a Democratic Party debate so that they could "help" create the outcome. They've always been liberal in tone, but now they are no longer believable, which is what John Cleese said about the BBC. It's not about the age of the viewers, it's about impartiality. Unless you no longer believe in Free Speech or a Free Press.
@@gutsjoestar7450 does a part of the population, one that is less than 5%, scare you; surely you know that a lot of the Indian food outlets in the UK are run by followers of the Muslim faith don't you?
U can thank the conservatives for that. They keep selling everything off to their mates, and have very little care for public services; education, healthcare, policing, etc.
@Christopher Roberts There hasn't been any left in Britain since Thatcher the Milk Snatcher was elected in 1979. After all, The Tories were in power from 1979 to 1997 and were replaced by Tony Blairs New Labour aka New Tory who continued Thatcher's policies of privatising and de-nationalising the formerly owned public state assets. After all, Liar Blair's Father was a member of the Communist Party in his Youth, then joined the Conservative Party in the 1960s and was Chairman of the Durham Conservative Association, then joined the New Labour Party after Blair was elected Leader in 1994. Then the Conservatives were elected under Cameron in 2010. Says it all Really, their Political Convictions follow the Money. :-(
@@davidjohntough9115 depends on his reasons for his vote ? Why are people like you so judgemental ? It actually is disheartening that I have to live around people like you.
Agree. She did a miserable job at this "interview". It seemed like she was more interested in scoring a point against Cleese. She was too busy being offended by one of Britains legends saying the country is crap, to actually do her fucking job and listen to his answers.
@@frankldr3154 why should anyone be forced to stay in a country, when it was someon else's decision to leave the EU? And what does a hard brexit even entail ?
The great thing about Python is that, as John says, they don’t make jokes, they point them out. He handles this line of questioning as well as he ever did or does. The man is a gem.
Thats why 40 years ago the BBC told Python team that they'll never make comedy for them again, they threw Palin a bone making travel shows, and Terry Jones history shows. Cleese wrote books, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam moved to the USA
@@phillipsmiley5930 The BBC didn't kick them out. Cleese left the show because he was getting bored with the format. They made a hell of a lot of money from a few films you may have heard of, besides their side gigs.
@@watson956 And he was correct. The format became ridiculously repetitive. A mad-libs presentation of a couple scenarios, the inversion of roles, the ludicrous shop scenario, etc.
I left and went to live in Poland.I got fed up with the situation in England and all the carry on.So I thought bugger it and left but at the same time I retired so I don't have to work.
@@geraldreynolds9650 same here mate. Although Poland isn't better than the UK politically. There's still Eurosceptism here, especially among the rural parts of the country, due to the propaganda pushing PiS party in partnership with the Catholic church. Although it seems like for the most part that a good majority are waking up to how much the country is degrading because of these stances of division and hatred. I do love Poland though
Clicked thumbs up for you too mate. BBC are a pathetic and corrupt far left wing Asian run apologists for any say in anything that resists a head in the sand attitude. So not news and far from anything balanced at all.
@@grahamnumber7123 Cleese did say he is leaving because a right wing party won. Perhaps he should give it a chance, or he just wanted to leave in the first place.
@@ParallaxView111 You must have missed the rest of what he said also and his particular BEEF about the media. I hear what you are saying but is there a left right middle or FOR GOOD section in politics? My take on it is he's leaving because hope is lost form many directions. I say great Britain is dead, puppets going the same way as the US, controlled by the US in former times. The next "Empire" has a go after the get rich quick scheme THEN joined a war that ONLY Britain tried to prevent....It would have taken Germany until 1988 zo pay for WW1, Britain say hey that's not on, France pushed it so France was done in a couple of weeks. The twist here is incompetent Brussels managed to tell Germany (the last powerhouse that remains after Brexit) that it is ""Discrimination"" that Germany should want to charge other people to use the roads! (like France, Spain, Austria, The Netherlands, etc etc) I say okay...but then those countries should SHARE the cost of 1.2(ish) million refugees. OR send them ALL to the US of Asshole governments that caused this mess. (Jews 1 Arabs 0 nice move getting a Jewish sponsored superpower to kill your enemies) Right wing isn't right at all now but a halve witted apologetic middle left. Right (should be) an attitude to stop being a weak person and a victim to 101 reasons to be somehow a victim or offended or "I need special recognition". Of course the left want to call out 'Naz'i with no real logic to that other than apposing views based on logic. Look at how Tommy Robinson was crucified by the media for genuine concerns while the media labelled him a Nazi without consequence. Regardless of me agreeing with all or nothing about the mans views, he is not a Nazi!!! the people writing that SHOULD be in court and sentence for professional, misconduct and negligence, as reporters, especially since the left (far left) seem to be able to publish what they want and get away with it. Nobody bats an eye lid. as for John, He's hardly been at home anyway. With the cash he has, why care? The next time real interest matters will be the realisation the tidal wave about to destroy his island is also man made and nothing to do with CO2....or the radiation My brother is also autistic but with Asperger syndrome, the system just pumps him full of drugs designed to sedate dangerous and violent people because the system understands neither fully. The world IS sadly being run by fools and greedy fools too, brilliant minds that are special are parked into some state run Shepard over the sheep. The Shepard may not be that intelligent at all, but he has the stick to aid walking and to twat the sheep when they veer of course. (written as an Atheist) Thanks for your reply and I thumbed U up for...at least an opinion. Talking is always good. all the best to you no matter if we would disagree.
andy peers I’m Canadian and I totally support your awesome, brave President Trump.💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 There has never been a leader like him! All the haters are the weak-minded, the low IQ...and therefore, easily media brainwashed.
Gets more and more true every year, I loved how Britain used to be an incredibly cynical population, I loved how John Oliver states than no-one hates the British more than the British, but the conservatives are destroying that.
Cleese is a parody of what he once parodied but is so far up his own arse he doesn't know it. Cleese lost the plot some years ago and he is now living on past glories. Rather sad. cleese is the power and establishmwent nowadays, hadn't you noticed?
@bobby macdiarmid Okay? Her job is to interview, not be an interjecting bitch :) and yes, I do love John Cleese - he seems to have more sense than most people ;)
Miles Trevelyan-Johnson oh bollocks. We’re not gullible whereas most Europeans are automatons who believe every thing they’re told. Especially Scandis.
@@hugohugo2832 No way, the level of debate and scrutiny by the danish media and the danish political system is very high. The danish public would never have excepted the distortions and outright lies that were thrown about during the EU referendum.
@Jeff V "Brexit is a good thing." For the wealthy and the UK's competitors but not your average Brit. Unless you naively believe BoJo and the Mogglodytes are average Brits.
I would have to say that Emily Maitliss has finally met someone in the form of John Cleese who will not be brow-beaten, humiliated, cornered, etc. And that to my mind is a good thing. Cleese is and always will be, a remarkable human being who is observant, informed, and sharp. He would have to be, having led so many successful shows. Kudos to him and may he find Neaves to be everything that he expects it to be when he moves there. Brilliant guy 👍😃
What I like about this interview with Cleese is that he doesn't bash anyone who voted Remain and Leave, but the Media who has and continues to twist people against each other. We wouldn't be in this situation if the debates were more civil and level headed, and not getting people to go for other's throats.
Batman Jr. John Cleese added to the simplistic messages that the Leave campaign spread during the referendum. He said that the EU could never be reformed - that it was hopeless and we should just leave. He said that the EU should scrap the Euro, as if it would be as easy as clicking your fingers. He himself glossed over the complexities of the modern world and the many ways in which the UK is intimately entwined with the rest of the EU. For him to complain here about simplistic arguments during the referendum campaign is gross hypocrisy.
Chris Lowe The EU has one goal which is to be a federalised state. Juncker, Macron, Merkel, Tusk, the big players all beleive in this vision as have previous leaders and comissioners within Germany and France. It will never be reformed.
+mark that is so true. I voted leave, but the last thing I want is a soft brexit, because it doesn't satisfy anybody or anything. To go from our current fairly privileged position within the EU to what essentially would be a vassal state, would be insane. I would rather stay in the EU than have a soft brexit downgrade of our politics and economy. But what I want, is to leave the EU - completely. The only rational options are all the way in, or all the way out. There is no satisfactory middle ground. It's a polar issue and you have to pick a side.
How is she a stereotypical 'stuck up feminist' here, when most the interview she actually fights the case AGAINST his left-leaning views? Stop being so black and white and so closed minded towards one side or the other (like John Cleese is warning about). Typically they only give him a couple minutes for soundbites then move on, but she is clearly just trying to challenge her guest for the sake of debate.
You might be used to fox news where nothing spoken is ever challenged, but this interview really wasn't that bad. She challenges some of his assumptions to get a more balanced view, that wasn't "rude".
Can you state waht exactly is rude from the interveiwer? Cleese is rude from beginning to end. If he were a guest and talked like that in my house I would probably boot the swine out
The thing that made me agree out loud was the point about a refusal these days to admit that an issue is complicated, or that there might be good points on both sides. That was indeed the biggest problem with the EU referendum - there were some good arguments on both sides, absolutely none of which were used by the leading campaigners.
Come on, the BBC may be obviously biased much of the time, but in this interview she actually challenged John Cleese's left leaning views, so you cant shout the same old 'brainwashing BBC' excuse. She may have been patronising and the interview very awkward, but JC was hardly being a shining star either, guffawing in her face at the slightest opportunity and not really making a clear point. Still he's great fun to watch and listen to
@Rex The Younger Globalists are leftists. UK is run by globalists that now has become so totalitarian that they arrest people for having the "wrong" opinions, just like in the old Sovjet.
@Rex The Younger UK is lead by a government you think is right wing, due to the old dichotomies you're stuck in. But your "right wing tory government" are working for the leftist globalist ideals. You need to update your world view to whats actually happening around you.
@@laylacicconi8447 Stay strong, Madam! They are making sure there is nowhere to escape to from their enlightened rule but they will fail like all damn revolutionaries before them.
Tsnore I don't think he ever has which has contributed to his comedic genius. You have to be willing to take risks and offend part of your audience for great comedy.
A lit more Britobs will leave when they wake up as to why the right wing press supported Brexit. Exploitation will happen on a national scale. There will be no EU protections. No Corperate tax snd no welfare. A Tory's wet dream.
The bar chart statistic was pure symbolism: Instead of self-criticism and self-reflection she reflexively was looking at the top of the chart, trying to find something to discredit it or redirect attention. This situation describes the entire media/political/societal landscape for the last years.
John Jasper if she agreed with him, she wouldn’t have a job. Imagine if you had someone talking about the company you work for with your boss off screen. But I don’t agree with her in the slightest
He wasn't denying that, I think if the interviewer had given him a chance, he would have spelled it out. He is leaving because, 1 he wants to/feels like he has to and 2 he is leaving because he is lucky enough to be able to leave.
So stand up and fight and make England, Wales, Scotland and North Ireland BRITISH again!! What the HELL do foreigners know about being BRITISH?!?! P.S. Get rid of the donkey orifices who are eating your kingdom from the inside out. (I'm not a resident of the U.K. btw.)
Jon Bruford, I know far more than you think, sir. But while we're on the subject, why don't you invite 50,000,000 more immigrants (sorry--"newcomers") from abroad who don't give a rats as about British values, history, decorum, rule of law and way of life. And while you're at it, make sure they don't assimilate with the general population. Instead, promote diversity (DIVISION). One more thing, be really peachy if 25,000,000 would be hardcore muslims who just can't wait to ram Sharia Law down your throat. Have a nice day.
He's more than "yet another actor". Whether you find it funny or not, Monty Python was a comedy show with enormous cultural significance. The Life of Brian is a brilliant film that intelligently lampoons mankind's pathetic need to create and follow religions. I'm not saying Cleese's political views are more worthy than anyone else's, but many people are interested in what he may have to say. Whether you consider an actor's work a "national treasure" or not, the idea that it is merely the "means for the inactive to pass the time .." is absurd. Whether you're watching a Shakespearean play, reading a novel, visiting an art gallery, watching a movie, or attending a concert, enjoyment of most art is an inactive pastime. People who consume art often create art too. Many of the same people are very "active" too!
if that is all you saw you are an idiot. John cleese remarked that (paraphrasing) "why didnt they tell us it wold be diificult!!".. Can you understand the difficulty with that staemengt. please use more than 2 sentences
@@stephencoveney4269An illiterate who can't spell or punctuate calling someone ELSE "an idiot" because that person actually knows how to be brief, clear, and succinct? Hilarious.
John Cleese used to make me roar with laughter, he always makes me smile, even when talking about something serious. I feel he is right, most of the people do not get what they want here and have to put up with the idiotic rich patronizing them. If I had the money, I would leave.
To think i grew up believing the BBC was always correct and unbiased. What an ignorant TWAT i was... i cannot STAND it now. Begrudge paying tv licence so much.
You do not have to pay send a letter saying you do not watch bbc there for will not pay . A man comes to your houes so do not watch bbc its easy then you dont pay the law is clear on that
John Cleese is right. The standard of debate on Brexit is appalling and I am not sure there are many people Who fully understand the complex issues around it. Whatever happens about Brexit, the issue cannot drag on Forever without some kind of resolution.
The public don't really give a shit about the EU; all 90% of them care about is if Brexit will leave them better or worse off. Many bought the utter garbage Gove and Davis and Johnson spouted about a land of milk and honey, following them like the Pied Piper into a mire of shit and ruin. Before Britain joined the EU it was the sick man of Europe, crippled for years by post-Colonial debts and lingering damage from WW2. And up until the recession it was a well-off nation with low debt, low inflation and a strong currency. It now has none of these things, thanks to eight years of chronic mismanagement and two years of Brexit when no-one (from government down to the rank and file) even know what Brexit means. Its the longest economic suicide note in history, perpetrated by the most useless government since Chamberlain.
You have intellectuals like Richard Dawkins putting their hands up and saying they don't understand Brexit that goes to show that it is far too complex for the average person to understand. There's just far too much data to assimilate and much of it unreliable. Dawkins said an issue this complicated should never have been put to a referendum and I think he is being proven right.
Oh Piss off, Dawkins is not a politician. He's the least capable of the 4 horsemen to comment on Brexit and one of them is dead. People do not want to be ruled over by an unelected, unaccountable body that acts in the interests of themselves and their ideals. The EU is evil. People do not wan it.
Left wing right wing, it's all nonsense. Equal amounts of bullshit. It shows that media no longer has journalistic standards but they're nothing but a mouth piece.
Phookadude, I totally get it: by explaining the thing that it's become impossible to explain a thing without being accused of supporting that thing, you mean you support the thing that it's become impossible to explain a thing without being accused of supporting that thing. And you think discourse is dead!
The interviewer is quite rude, interrupting Cleese or sometimes filling in the words for him, as if he needed her help. She apparently forgot that HE is the star and the story, not the other way around.
@James Well, she's simply interrupting with her different views. Like a boring version of the Argument sketch. I guess it's modern TV and the need to be edgy, to ask the "hard questions", keep the tempo up and all that jazz. I for one would just want Cleese to get the time to form his own sentences and delve deeper into his decision to leave the UK. I'm glad that he has found a place where he enjoys life more.
A clear sign the lady would have been a great addition to MP crew back in the day! :) PS I should clarify perhaps... MP is to mean Monty Python, not Member of Parliament.
he is spot on , hardly anyone see's any merit in both sides of an argument , people treat politics like supporting a sports team , they just cheer on there side fanatically while not listening to anyone else.
"BBC haven't put Monthy Python out for 17 years, and I think the reason for that is so they dont wanna have to compare it with a lot of modern comedy" Shots fired
At least they put out the Boxed MPFC Norwegian Blu-Ray edition back in 2019 and also a brand new edition Fawlty Towers Blu-Ray that same year, So it's not like the BBC is ignoring the Monty Python's Flying Circus history and franchise.
True, b/c comedy has gotten much worse, weaker, as Britain's gone much further left. It did go mildly right b/c the country had been driven to a standstill by the left, labour strikes paralyzed the country. It had a decade of mild conservativism, then back to knee-jerk leftism. Most commenters here take left-world attitudes as normal.
I was 12 when I first saw "Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1973, John Cleese has been a part of my life forever. I am very happy I lived through a time where people actually grew up.
I think he is Self-opinionated and egotistical and ignorant.. because he cannot seem to believe that there can be any view other than that which agees with his. And has no respect for other peoples views or choices . He says on brexit about people views being just ' black or white'. You could say the same about him.amd his.views. And there is nothing 'legend'about him. He is/was a comedian. Yes the python years were funny but nothing to make him a 'legend'. He is just a man who stays in the background now unless he has to make money for a divorce (something he said himself). I dont find him funny anymore. And i also think its ignorant to laugh sarcastically everytime a reporter tries to get a question in. If he wants to leave the country.. fine.
@@joysaphine1 Well he was invited for a interview about he's opinions on Brexit yet the host is disrespectful, the role of the interviewer is to interview NOT contradict and expose personal opinions.
He seems like just a nice guy who wants to chat, she's a robot trying to get through the list of questions. Interesting contrast between a genuine personality and an artificial one.
Jonathan Siwalk Used to think how funny he was. Now I wouldn't piss on him if I came round a corner and found him burning to the ground, self appointed, superior, pompous areshole!
@igor šajinović Cockroaches are living beings like any other. Don't use them as an insult like that. They aren't lesser. Don't harm or kill Cockroaches. Insects, Arachnids, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Crustaceans, all creatures think and feel as research shows, as it also shows all living beings have subjective experience and the same capability for consciousness we have (can only measure capability, we can't prove consciousness in ourselves, other humans, or other creatures, so capability is the term used). Even if no creature thought or felt, they are still living organisms as is all life and should be treated with Love, care and respect, as with all Life too. Use harmless repellents to avoid and prevent infestations and gently and carefully move them from your home if they are there. Ironically harmless repellents are also the most effective method and when the proper repellent is used (usually Plants or Oils) and is properly harmless, then it is exactly that.
@@TheTaterTotP80 plants and trees are living things too so does that mean in you're opinion we should not eat anything or take medication which come from plants just like veg and fruits
Any interviewer on a news program of the BBC, like Newsnight, is unable to let the conversation partner speak a full sentence... especially when the line threatens to go differently from the predetermined outcome.
Except she didn't. Cleese spoke for the vast majority of the interview (by a considerable distance). Do a little empirical measurement if you don't think so. You'll find you're wrong. Fantasy and reality are two different things.
What's really absurd is the interviewer is illustrating his point brilliantly. Her questioning technique seeks absolute responses, or presents false binaries and centres the need for sound bites rather than elucidating the issue at hand. Even the pacing of the interview is sensationalist and the inclusion of less meaningful topics which are given the same discussion time creates a levelling that causes the significant information to be lost.
@@yoya4766 I guess you don't use capitalization and full stops in your native language. Furthermore, don't read academic texts as some sentences can be six lines long.
@@Essex-ux4zv We natives use full stops. But that's English, not sure about your Double Dutch. I note you've added some, did you need to review your academic literature to know how to use a full stop? You may not realise but this is the YT comment section not an academic treatise.
@@yoya4766 You realise You tube is an international platform and some people may respond in English though it isn't their first language. My response may seem like double dutch to you because you don't have an interest in aspects of the absurd in narratives. I also believe if your going to comment on someone's mechanics in written English, your writing should exemplify that convention which it doesn't. People from all walks of life use UA-cam and if you think that brief comment is an academic treatise then it wasn't meant to engage you. Read and respond to comments that match your intellectual leanings.
He's talking about the media in general, including the BBC. He hasn't said here but he also has a major problem with political correctness where no one can say hardly anything nowadays without being hysterically "controversialised" which does tend to inhibit free expression of thought. Being offended and censored on behalf of other people not offended by stereotypes that exist, does not make for a free society.
I guess life was just easier when you could call gay people what You wanted to, as but one example, before political correctness stopped you. Poor you, not being able to say what you want.
The legacy media are Fake News, British audiences know it .. and what are the Fake News media in Britain going to do about it? Stop being partisan in reporting? Take steps to support diversity of thought by ending blacklisting and deplatforming (through refusal to hire, refusal to renew contracts, sackings etc) of neutral and honest journalists, editors and staff? Take steps to RECRUIT honest and neutral staff? Be candid about the connections between staff/legacy news media and the establishment/Deep State? Stop describing as "far-right" anyone who does not enthusiastically repeat the mantras and platitudes the elites feel comfortable with? Fairly report on activities and movements that do not concur with elite “Approved Thought”? Reopen the comments sections under many of the articles published on their legacy news websites? EARN the trust of their audiences by CHANGING THEIR OWN BEHAVIOUR? Not likely.. the Fake News media will probably double down on its attempts to discredit those news sources that audiences are turning to, and be silent when the State legislates against them.
Cleese is a typical Vicar of Bray, i.e. he changes his principles to suit the circumstances. Or to quote the great Mr. Marx(Groucho not Karl)--"Here are my principles but if you don't like them I have others"
No.... and we don't care if he fucks off to the Carribbean either, unfortunately we can't....so....I I'll just wave my arse in the general direction of a condescending old elderberry smelling fart and say, "Hurry along now, it's 'women and children only' for the lifeboats, us ignorant, dense folk in steerage wouldn't want you to lose your bought and paid for seat to somewhere substantially better than the dense folk can expect to be any time soon!
‘I don’t like it I don’t trust it I don’t like the bankers they miss sold 80 billion.’ John Cleese you’re a legend. Thank you for being a stand up man.
Mimi shawi The banks contribute around 75 billion a year to the government in taxes, money that helps to pay for the nhs. I think Cleese was trying to be right on saying this sort of stuff, including the comment on the Leveson inquiry which looked good on paper but would have severely restricted press freedom. I suspect that he was obfuscating to cover up the fact that he was staunchly pro brexit during the campaign.
Andy Clifft not capitalism, but Corporatism. The merger of huge corporations and government power. Or, as Mussolini himself put it, fascism. In the economic sense, that is.
The generation of Mr Cleese made Britain, Honestly speaking Britain blew itself up by yobs, Chavs and lord knows what not. Slaves of USA, Germany, and India now
Mauritian Struggle London, Manchester, Birmingham,Leeds etc.. all minority white British or natives. I don't get why UK doesn't want to accept 8 million Muslim & Africans by 2024?..
When you have a member of Monty Python outburst in laughter in your face it means you've just said something that, even compared to Python's standards, is utterly absurd!
So, claiming that Albania is so much better than the UK, the US, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Italy, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, etc. Why is he not moving to Albania? Or the Netherlands? Doesn't it seem absurd? Or is it because you guys have a bias favoring Cleese? For reference, Albania is a former Soviet satellite state, the poorest country in all of Europe, even surpassing the poverty of Ukraine. The state religion is Islam, and their main exports are crude petroleum, which they cannot refine themselves, and the production of footwear, most of which is stinking tanned leather submerged in dangerous acids. Yeah, Albania is so much better than the UK. Go there, Cleese, by all means. But no, he chose to move to a remote exclusive island in the Caribbean.
@@Thor.Jorgensen You've got points there. I believe he mentioned those as public trust ratios in the media. He can move anywhere he wants to, that affects me zip. He mentioned those Caribbean islands (if I'm not mistaken) because of the weather and the people. And yes he can move to those exclusive places. Yes, the typical rich Brit neocolonialist tourist. No one lives in the UK because of the weather and the people. Been there.
@@Humongous_Pig_Benis What I find even more infuriating is how he repeatedly insisted on how Brexit would solve all of the UK's problems and shifted the entire blame on the EU. And once he got everything he could ever want, it turned out that post-Brexit was not the dream that he wanted. And it turned out that Brexit simply made everything worse for the UK, with food shortages and limited NHS funds, as was predicted 5 years ago before the Brexit vote. Can't say he wasn't warned. I honestly think he just can't stand the fact that, for once, the media was actually right about something, even though he doesn't trust the media. So once he realized that he messed up, he again saved face by playing the blame game and abandoning ship. Because imagine a Tory ever taking responsibility for the mess they got the country in. That has never happened.
@@Thor.Jorgensen That, my dear, is a _British Self Problem_ . Like I wrote before, I lived there - and hated it. That's Britain's problem to solve now. _Tada_ from Europe to Brexitopotamia! _(whistles away)_
If I could sit down and have a conversation with one person, it’d be Cleese. Not to talk about Python or even comedy, but just current affairs and the history that has lead to it. His insights are accurate and his manner of conveying his thoughts are so genuine. I would love to speak with someone like Stephen Fry, or the late Christopher Hitchens, but I feel like it’d be like speaking to a professor, a bit formal or academic. I don’t get that feeling from Cleese.
I knew a publisher who had a conversation with Cleese and said he was extremely strange and off-putting, definitely very academic. On the other hand, she said having lunch with Palin was one of the best experiences of her life.
Yeah because nothing is more interesting than listening to an old man whinging about problems in his head. "Waaaaah i can't call black men niggers anymore" isn't what i'd call thoughtful insight...but you do you mate.
I would have loved to speak to Terry Jones about history. He released a book, years ago, which I loved and I have a feeling that he had a lot more of them but was hampered by the Python legacy
I dont think they have TV vans in Sweden either. Instead we have a DDR like system where shops report if you buy a TV, they send notes asking if you have a TV, call you on the phone and even visit you home to check if you have a TV.
Dear journalist, if you don't agree with your guest: 1/ let him speak his mind until the end of his sentences (otherwise it's just rude) 2/if your point is THAT important that you feel like interrupting him why don't you write a book or get yourself interviewed instead of being on both sides (interviewer and self-interviewed)? BTW you seem to have missed some journalism lectures like "method of interview" where they teach you directive questions, non-directive questions, hypothetical and behavioral questions... And they will teach you that asking interro-negative questions is biased, it implies something of your point of view and influence the answer of your guest... but what do I know... I'm no journalist...you are the expert... or are you?
Oh come on, a good interviewer can't let the guest present him /herself exactly as planned, that's how fascists get votes. No, you have to test your guest, especially if it's a controversial one, so that every one can make up their own mind. She's not very talented, but that's not the point.
Well his earring might be bad but his thinking is very sharp... You might not agree or like it but saying he is senile is a bit of a stretch in my opinion... AND that doesn't change the basic rules of a proper interviewer... I don't suppose you meant he is an old guy, let's take no precaution to the way we address him... That would be uncivilized therefore very unlikely of you Mister Philippe Voie...
Oh come on yourself Mister Benji :-) I don't think John Cleese needs to be shaken and stirred (or not stirred). He is the type of person who speaks his mind right away whether you like it or not. Politicians are different species but him... he is so disgusted by England that there is no point interrupting him... Unless you need to show off for some reason...
She started the problem with the press' credibility issues at 5:18. She said, "Because we were asked a question and we had to choose a side." I didn't think it was the job of the press to choose sides. Aren't they supposed to report the news fairly and as unbiased as possible?
When she said 'we', she was referring to 'everyone' (and more specifically 'pundits'), who Cleese was referring to in the previous sentence. They were talking about the nature of public debate and forecasting the future. In debate and when forecasting future events, ordinary people must 'choose a side' according to their beliefs on what is right and what will happen. Then the media reports both sides in the most 'fair' and 'unbiased' way possible.
Richard Jones. Report news fairly and unbiased . The BBC .have had many years of practice at doing exactly the opposite, basically if they can't spin it to suit their agenda they don't mention it .
The Brexit debate never listed a set of things that the EU provides in our favour, it never made a case for the efficiency of the system or the improvements that have occurred because of it... nobody seemed to have much concern about how it was run or how good an organisation it is. Instead they just talked about the dangers of leaving without the mention of the dangers of staying. It was pure bollocks, as was the inflation of the figure on the side of the bus as if using the net or gross figure really was misunderstood after it was discussed time and again what that meant not that it effected anybodies vote... pull the other one, the Government backing one side of the debate only, asking president Obama to lie, George Osbourne and his mates spreading misinformation about punishment budgets and self interested groups preaching the virtues of the EU just because they take money from it... all rubbish. When the BBC were wheeling people on to talk about us potentially losing all our foreign nurses you knew it was rubbish, it was the first time I noticed that reality had very little to do with the news. Just because Brexit was supposed to allow us to protect our borders never meant we were going to extradite people we need or block people we need from entering the country and to represent things this way was the final straw... since then we have had the gender pay rubbish and all that and I just decided I will never turn that crap on again. How a mainstream media company can misrepresent the truth only to push an ideological narrative like that just discredits them completely.
@Max Bamford actually like Cleese's comment on the research done on pundits successful forecasting being no better than anyone. The rise of pundits as news sources where choosing sides creates drama and entertainment has, imo, been a direct influencer in the rise of distrust in the MSM. Factual and thoughtful discussion has given way to sound bites, opinions and confrontation on a continuous cycle. That encourages choosing sides, i.e. "us vs them". It is a recipe for negativity and mistrust. Cleese is correct when he says most things are complex and neither solutions nor analysis can be reduced to "either/or" options.
@@Daveyboyz1978 you have blocked people from coming to do the dirty jobs the British don't want to do and many thousands of immigrants in Britain have left which leavers wanted but now you are looking at a shortage of workers lol
Amazingly, I only actually started to realise the press were politically biassed when I started watching CNN during the US presidential elections. I guess I never really cared about politics till Trump's entrance into the arena piqued my interest.
FraggingBard, I didn't like Donald Trump at the beginning. But I thought I'd follow along for entertainment value. I'm a New Zealander so it really didn't matter to me. As it happens, I like him now. So, to answer your question: CNN were as biassed as you could possibly get.
This is probably why the Netherlands has a lot of trust in the media (apparently). It's boring af, and it's great. There's not a single program that puts itself up as "news" while trying to mix objective news and a subjective talk show. The news is cut and dry. It reports what happens and what the involved parties have said, without making any suggestion on who is right, unless actual facts contradict statements. We do have a few of these talk shows that try to talk about actual news, but because it's so disconnected from the "news" it's very clear and unambiguous that it's people with a personal opinions talking about the subject. Most likely these shows are very liberal though (it's a very liberal country) but if conservatives or 'right wing' people are invited on these shows, it doesn't feel like they're put down. It's often one side vs the other side, with the host moderating only when things become chaotic.
Amenhotep, She is part of a concentrated attempt by an alien entity in Britain to break down national identity within European nations peoples. Aggressive interviewing & crass insult to the guest is a trademark these days. Barbara Spectre is staggeringly open about it : ua-cam.com/video/85BKDj_1vVU/v-deo.html
Fintan, Zionist. She is supportive of the Globalist Zionist push to break down national identity European citizens have. She happens to be Jewish .... Not all are. Her disgraceful manner is totally unwarranted.
"I don't make jokes... I just point them out."
Priceless!
LOL Classic!
Classic Cleese!!! Well spotted!!
These little tools just need to watch Brazil.
The 25% trust the media and being so low on the graph was pretty funny.
"You're John Cleese so we have to talk about comedy..." - "We *ARE* talking about comedy! 23% (trust in the UK media)"! Priceless.
We have amongst the best, and almost certainly, the worst as regards the press. US can be surprisingly good!
CNN has failed miserably judging by its ratings and its own polling data. One popular Fox News program has a bigger rating than almost all of CNN's together and is considered to be a reliable source along with OANN. A new poll from CNN and shown on CNN shows that their own viewers have 0% interest (ZERO PERCENT) in Trump/Russia collusion stories and yet now that the report summary has been given, the CNN news "personalities" are still talking about the things that their viewers aren't interested in. The largest number on their poll was about the immigration problem, but the CNN people were not even talking about it.
If the BBC reflected upon their viewers' interests, they might bring forth a different set of stories or as John Cleese said, "Try pointing out the pros and cons legitimately" (paraphrased). That used to be called "journalistic integrity" and it was also called news reporting. News is now political advocacy, even on the BBC and France24.
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@Numinous123 : You missed the point entirely along with this news presenter. Journalism protects society by bringing issues to light independently and allowing people to make up their own mind.
CNN hired someone who secretly gave away the questions to a Democratic Party debate so that they could "help" create the outcome. They've always been liberal in tone, but now they are no longer believable, which is what John Cleese said about the BBC.
It's not about the age of the viewers, it's about impartiality. Unless you no longer believe in Free Speech or a Free Press.
@Numinous123 averages at 68 and you believe it....what a fuckwit 😂😂😂
She does not understand it: for Mr. Cleese, the Great Britain is dead, it's passed on, it's no more, it has ceased to be.
The OK Britain is OK, though.
@@gutsjoestar7450 does a part of the population, one that is less than 5%, scare you; surely you know that a lot of the Indian food outlets in the UK are run by followers of the Muslim faith don't you?
U can thank the conservatives for that. They keep selling everything off to their mates, and have very little care for public services; education, healthcare, policing, etc.
“Great Britain” died in the 80s with thatcher. We became America’s 52nd state
@Christopher Roberts There hasn't been any left in Britain since Thatcher the Milk Snatcher was elected in 1979. After all, The Tories were in power from 1979 to 1997 and were replaced by Tony Blairs New Labour aka New Tory who continued Thatcher's policies of privatising and de-nationalising the formerly owned public state assets. After all, Liar Blair's Father was a member of the Communist Party in his Youth, then joined the Conservative Party in the 1960s and was Chairman of the Durham Conservative Association, then joined the New Labour Party after Blair was elected Leader in 1994. Then the Conservatives were elected under Cameron in 2010. Says it all Really, their Political Convictions follow the Money. :-(
This ages like fine wine. He is spot on about everything.
You're absolutely right
Supports Brexit but leaving the UK? Says everything about him!
does that mean he is intoxicating?
@@davidjohntough9115 depends on his reasons for his vote ? Why are people like you so judgemental ? It actually is disheartening that I have to live around people like you.
@@davidjohntough9115 does it?! Right.
This woman is proving his point.
Typical liberal. When the going gets rough, get going! Welcome to LA Mr. Cleese.HARD BREXIT NOW!
Agree. She did a miserable job at this "interview". It seemed like she was more interested in scoring a point against Cleese. She was too busy being offended by one of Britains legends saying the country is crap, to actually do her fucking job and listen to his answers.
Reptile!
@@frankldr3154 why should anyone be forced to stay in a country, when it was someon else's decision to leave the EU? And what does a hard brexit even entail ?
Which explains why we voted leave. She is condescending.
The Truth is always good to hear but especially coming from wonderful John Cleese.
Cleese is going to live on Mustique, where globalist immigrants have turfed out the native fishermen ..
www.mustique-island.com/about/our-history/
Diana Blackman He's been lambasted for telling the truth about London... and that makes him a racist, according to the left.
He laughs in their faces and enjoys life. Whereas the lefties have no clue how to do so. It will be so delightful when they are demolished.
@@dianablackman4528 Cleese is moving to an island where the native fishermen were removed to clear the way for tax-dodging globalists.
@@designanddirection And he's moving to an island where native fishermen were cleared off to make way for tax-dodging globalists like him!
"I don't make jokes I just point them out"
I love that quote.
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Boris Johnson is the Prime-minister, and now for something completely different: Rees-Mogg is the Upper Class Twit of the Year.
That was brilliant.
Same here!..
The people don't have to buy newspapers. If they don't trust them why do they buy the right wing propaganda? Bigger fools them!
The great thing about Python is that, as John says, they don’t make jokes, they point them out. He handles this line of questioning as well as he ever did or does. The man is a gem.
Thats why 40 years ago the BBC told Python team that they'll never make comedy for them again, they threw Palin a bone making travel shows, and Terry Jones history shows.
Cleese wrote books, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam moved to the USA
@@phillipsmiley5930 The BBC didn't kick them out. Cleese left the show because he was getting bored with the format. They made a hell of a lot of money from a few films you may have heard of, besides their side gigs.
@@watson956 And he was correct. The format became ridiculously repetitive. A mad-libs presentation of a couple scenarios, the inversion of roles, the ludicrous shop scenario, etc.
John Cleese “ I don’t make jokes, I just point them out “, brilliant
Should the Goyal Rosemary's Baby be baptised or exorcised.
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Truth is the great disiteratum of humor.
And then proceeds to point to the graph and laughing. GENIUS
"I dont make jokes, I just point them out" - John Cleese
MUKGA
word!
I think he's very right on this one, that's why his sense of humor is so witty and charming.
Like John Cleese. Tells it like it is, and the BBC don't like it.
John Cleese laughing in her face is priceless.
truly epic
@@ParallaxView111 When completely of a tangent... or pushing your agenda.
Shame Boris didn't
@@ParallaxView111 Speaking of thick. Comparing the division by Republicans and celebrating diversity.
2:30
They should do a follow up interview right now. It's more than painful how right he was all along
The interviewer was so sensitive about criticism of the media - Cleese was spot on and if I had the money he has, I’d be leaving too.
When he's referring to printed media, not her network interestingly enough
I left and went to live in Poland.I got fed up with the situation in England and all the carry on.So I thought bugger it and left but at the same time I retired so I don't have to work.
You don't necessarily need much money to move to another country
@@geraldreynolds9650 same here mate. Although Poland isn't better than the UK politically. There's still Eurosceptism here, especially among the rural parts of the country, due to the propaganda pushing PiS party in partnership with the Catholic church. Although it seems like for the most part that a good majority are waking up to how much the country is degrading because of these stances of division and hatred. I do love Poland though
@@AusJonny You do if you want to go to a paridisiac island without having to work in turism or in a fishing boat XD
“Robust media” John dies with laughter. What a man.
@1878EFC2008 Yeah.
You should read the actual filed copy, and don’t head straight to the opinion pages.
Hey BBC we're clicking like because John Cleese 1: BBC 0
Clicked thumbs up for you too mate. BBC are a pathetic and corrupt far left wing Asian run apologists for any say in anything that resists a head in the sand attitude. So not news and far from anything balanced at all.
@@grahamnumber7123 Cleese did say he is leaving because a right wing party won. Perhaps he should give it a chance, or he just wanted to leave in the first place.
@@ParallaxView111 You must have missed the rest of what he said also and his particular BEEF about the media. I hear what you are saying but is there a left right middle or FOR GOOD section in politics? My take on it is he's leaving because hope is lost form many directions.
I say great Britain is dead, puppets going the same way as the US, controlled by the US in former times. The next "Empire" has a go after the get rich quick scheme THEN joined a war that ONLY Britain tried to prevent....It would have taken Germany until 1988 zo pay for WW1, Britain say hey that's not on, France pushed it so France was done in a couple of weeks. The twist here is incompetent Brussels managed to tell Germany (the last powerhouse that remains after Brexit) that it is ""Discrimination"" that Germany should want to charge other people to use the roads! (like France, Spain, Austria, The Netherlands, etc etc) I say okay...but then those countries should SHARE the cost of 1.2(ish) million refugees. OR send them ALL to the US of Asshole governments that caused this mess. (Jews 1 Arabs 0 nice move getting a Jewish sponsored superpower to kill your enemies)
Right wing isn't right at all now but a halve witted apologetic middle left. Right (should be) an attitude to stop being a weak person and a victim to 101 reasons to be somehow a victim or offended or "I need special recognition". Of course the left want to call out 'Naz'i with no real logic to that other than apposing views based on logic. Look at how Tommy Robinson was crucified by the media for genuine concerns while the media labelled him a Nazi without consequence. Regardless of me agreeing with all or nothing about the mans views, he is not a Nazi!!! the people writing that SHOULD be in court and sentence for professional, misconduct and negligence, as reporters, especially since the left (far left) seem to be able to publish what they want and get away with it. Nobody bats an eye lid.
as for John, He's hardly been at home anyway. With the cash he has, why care? The next time real interest matters will be the realisation the tidal wave about to destroy his island is also man made and nothing to do with CO2....or the radiation
My brother is also autistic but with Asperger syndrome, the system just pumps him full of drugs designed to sedate dangerous and violent people because the system understands neither fully. The world IS sadly being run by fools and greedy fools too, brilliant minds that are special are parked into some state run Shepard over the sheep. The Shepard may not be that intelligent at all, but he has the stick to aid walking and to twat the sheep when they veer of course. (written as an Atheist) Thanks for your reply and I thumbed U up for...at least an opinion. Talking is always good. all the best to you no matter if we would disagree.
andy peers I’m Canadian and I totally support your awesome, brave President Trump.💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
There has never been a leader like him!
All the haters are the weak-minded, the low IQ...and therefore, easily media brainwashed.
@andy peers If Trump really wanted to make a statement, he would put down himself first!
“Am I interrupting you “ John Cleese - Absolute Legend :)
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"Let's not go to Britain, it is a silly place"
Gets more and more true every year, I loved how Britain used to be an incredibly cynical population, I loved how John Oliver states than no-one hates the British more than the British, but the conservatives are destroying that.
yeah come to germany,we have this "refugees welcome" bullshit running....
Stay away from England but by all means visit Scotland and Northern Ireland which are pro EU and didn't vote to leave.
dammit, John Cleese speaks truth to power. Calls their bs out beautiful beautiful
Cleese is a parody of what he once parodied but is so far up his own arse he doesn't know it.
Cleese lost the plot some years ago and he is now living on past glories. Rather sad.
cleese is the power and establishmwent nowadays, hadn't you noticed?
@Hannibal Barca There was no need to prove you have the mental age of an academically challenged 6 year old.
What an outdated twat
why did u have to curse :(
@@cleesely The man is a complete plonker.
I love how he cackles like an inpatient when she talks about trusted media.
Brilliant
@bobby macdiarmid Kind of like her trying to interrupt him repeatedly?
@bobby macdiarmid Okay? Her job is to interview, not be an interjecting bitch :) and yes, I do love John Cleese - he seems to have more sense than most people ;)
This woman has to back the BBC; as this is the trough in which her snout is buried.
You've got to love a man that laughs in the face of a stupid question.
John Cleese is absolutely right about the media. Respect to him and wish him the best moving away from the UK.
Miles Trevelyan-Johnson oh bollocks. We’re not gullible whereas most Europeans are automatons who believe every thing they’re told. Especially Scandis.
John Cleese is idiot.
Yes...I remember that episode.
ua-cam.com/video/jF-CkMpQtlY/v-deo.html
No, Basil Fawlty is an idiot. John Cleese is brilliant.
@@hugohugo2832 No way, the level of debate and scrutiny by the danish media and the danish political system is very high. The danish public would never have excepted the distortions and outright lies that were thrown about during the EU referendum.
'Sorry, am I interrupting you?'
Still love ya, John.
Yeah I mean the gall of someone talking over him. That man still has more talent in his pinky than most comedians today.
I am going to add this one to my collection. Cheers John and good luck.
yes go away
@@Captain__Harlock Gall
@@slacker20012 Jesus grammer police in here...
Oh John you never let us down you deserve to get out of this swamp
If i was his age i'd wanna go somewhere warm and lush for the rest of my days. Living the dream.
Please wealthy brits dont come to the south of eu, we dont like you, u know...
Cleese is a parody of what he once parodied but is so far up his own arse he doesn't know it.
@Jeff V "Brexit is a good thing." For the wealthy and the UK's competitors but not your average Brit.
Unless you naively believe BoJo and the Mogglodytes are average Brits.
As long as the natives in paradise speak ENGLISH!!
I would have to say that Emily Maitliss has finally met someone in the form of John Cleese who will not be brow-beaten, humiliated, cornered, etc. And that to my mind is a good thing. Cleese is and always will be, a remarkable human being who is observant, informed, and sharp. He would have to be, having led so many successful shows. Kudos to him and may he find Neaves to be everything that he expects it to be when he moves there. Brilliant guy 👍😃
Need to have Elon Musk ON -:
What I like about this interview with Cleese is that he doesn't bash anyone who voted Remain and Leave, but the Media who has and continues to twist people against each other. We wouldn't be in this situation if the debates were more civil and level headed, and not getting people to go for other's throats.
Batman Jr. John Cleese added to the simplistic messages that the Leave campaign spread during the referendum. He said that the EU could never be reformed - that it was hopeless and we should just leave. He said that the EU should scrap the Euro, as if it would be as easy as clicking your fingers. He himself glossed over the complexities of the modern world and the many ways in which the UK is intimately entwined with the rest of the EU. For him to complain here about simplistic arguments during the referendum campaign is gross hypocrisy.
@ugaaa5 Not true. Hence the extremely low trust for the dinosaur media.
Chris Lowe The EU has one goal which is to be a federalised state. Juncker, Macron, Merkel, Tusk, the big players all beleive in this vision as have previous leaders and comissioners within Germany and France. It will never be reformed.
+mark that is so true. I voted leave, but the last thing I want is a soft brexit, because it doesn't satisfy anybody or anything. To go from our current fairly privileged position within the EU to what essentially would be a vassal state, would be insane. I would rather stay in the EU than have a soft brexit downgrade of our politics and economy. But what I want, is to leave the EU - completely. The only rational options are all the way in, or all the way out. There is no satisfactory middle ground. It's a polar issue and you have to pick a side.
A gentleman and a scholar.
Sick of these appalling rude interviewers. I hardly go near mainstream media these days, its repulsive
The BBC tops that.
How is she a stereotypical 'stuck up feminist' here, when most the interview she actually fights the case AGAINST his left-leaning views? Stop being so black and white and so closed minded towards one side or the other (like John Cleese is warning about). Typically they only give him a couple minutes for soundbites then move on, but she is clearly just trying to challenge her guest for the sake of debate.
She's a troy twat its so obvious.... come on
You might be used to fox news where nothing spoken is ever challenged, but this interview really wasn't that bad. She challenges some of his assumptions to get a more balanced view, that wasn't "rude".
Can you state waht exactly is rude from the interveiwer? Cleese is rude from beginning to end. If he were a guest and talked like that in my house I would probably boot the swine out
"we have to talk about comedy"
"We already are talking about comedy!" Haha legend John Cleese.
The thing that made me agree out loud was the point about a refusal these days to admit that an issue is complicated, or that there might be good points on both sides. That was indeed the biggest problem with the EU referendum - there were some good arguments on both sides, absolutely none of which were used by the leading campaigners.
"I'm here for an argument." "No you're not" "Yes I am." "No you're not."
"You're all individuals" "Yes, we're all individuals".
That's not an argument. It's just contradiction.
it's pythonesque ;)
An argument isn't just saying "No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!"
Priceless Mr Cleese! Outstanding, not surprised you've had enough! ;) Peace Brother
I don't make jokes, I just point them out...brilliant.
23% ppppfffHA HA xD
what a guy ! wish him a long life and all the best !
Another example of how the BBC is more interested in setting an agenda and not actually interviewing people.
Come on, the BBC may be obviously biased much of the time, but in this interview she actually challenged John Cleese's left leaning views, so you cant shout the same old 'brainwashing BBC' excuse. She may have been patronising and the interview very awkward, but JC was hardly being a shining star either, guffawing in her face at the slightest opportunity and not really making a clear point. Still he's great fun to watch and listen to
@Face-Fok Ltd. No one with left leaning views would leave UK today, since UK is so left-leaning right now that it's about to ruin the country.
your echoes are not resounding there troll.. explain how the UK is "so left leaning right now" you fuckin clueless bellend.
@Rex The Younger Globalists are leftists. UK is run by globalists that now has become so totalitarian that they arrest people for having the "wrong" opinions, just like in the old Sovjet.
@Rex The Younger UK is lead by a government you think is right wing, due to the old dichotomies you're stuck in. But your "right wing tory government" are working for the leftist globalist ideals. You need to update your world view to whats actually happening around you.
She's arguing with the man who co-wrote the sketch on arguing. :D
No she isn't.
@@geraint8989 Yes she is.
Guess it made him self reliant, and famous. Nothing lasts for ever. Many comics, need to be relevant. Hence the talk.
@@geraint8989 No that's contradiction
I've told you once...
Twenty years ago I would never have left. Six years ago I left and it's the best thing I have ever done.
Where did you go?
Good riddance
Wish I could leave California. The left has decimated this state.
@@laylacicconi8447 Stay strong, Madam! They are making sure there is nowhere to escape to from their enlightened rule but they will fail like all damn revolutionaries before them.
leaving will NOT save you. the whole planet is being driven into a prison
Good on him. Especially for not letting the interviewer patronize him.
No she didn't like it , did she !!! .No she didn't .
Love Mr. Cleese , especially because in his own words, (he) "simply doesn't give a damn anymore."
Tsnore I don't think he ever has which has contributed to his comedic genius. You have to be willing to take risks and offend part of your audience for great comedy.
A lit more Britobs will leave when they wake up as to why the right wing press supported Brexit. Exploitation will happen on a national scale. There will be no EU protections. No Corperate tax snd no welfare. A Tory's wet dream.
Sure he does, that's why he can't stop complaining about everything.
Tsnore Cynicism or (rather in this case) apathy is the worst attitudes for a nation and human being to embrace... that's just deadly
Frank Russell Design Based on what data/facts?
This presenter is so annoyingly rude, a true BBC presenter.
She is exactly why he is leaving, too many liars.
She's simply being extemely BBC-Standard silly.
Her job is to question him?
Theres other more ruder ones out there.
True and sad
@@richardbuckley6299 I think most of the commenters aren't familiar with the format.
Mr Cleese is an intelligent man who tells it like it is!
@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace Well done on falling for the exact thing that Cleese was talking about.
@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace Okay, bud :)
We live in a country that loves to criticize Politicians, but refuses to criticize the media that feeds us continual lies.
The bar chart statistic was pure symbolism:
Instead of self-criticism and self-reflection she reflexively was looking at the top of the chart, trying to find something to discredit it or redirect attention. This situation describes the entire media/political/societal landscape for the last years.
"My point is that I don't like what you're saying so I'll interrupt continuously..."
John Jasper if she agreed with him, she wouldn’t have a job. Imagine if you had someone talking about the company you work for with your boss off screen. But I don’t agree with her in the slightest
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government...
I mean, if I went 'round, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Ducksoup67 I wish I could like this more than once.
Might be worth a try, c an't be any worse than worse.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some... farcical aquatic ceremony!
Pardon?
This just made me like John Cleese even more. Have a wonderful time in the Caribbean, sir, you will be sorely missed.
No he won't.
Oh yes he will!
I am amazed that he had the patience to go through with this.
I'm not a huge fan of hers but John was a bit of a mess in this interview. Not easy for her to handle this.
He's leaving because he can afford to. The rest of us are stuck here.
He wasn't denying that, I think if the interviewer had given him a chance, he would have spelled it out. He is leaving because, 1 he wants to/feels like he has to and 2 he is leaving because he is lucky enough to be able to leave.
So stand up and fight and make England, Wales, Scotland and North Ireland BRITISH again!!
What the HELL do foreigners know about being BRITISH?!?!
P.S. Get rid of the donkey orifices who are eating your kingdom from the inside out.
(I'm not a resident of the U.K. btw.)
All AtSea wouldn't the cost of living be much cheaper in the carribean than in UK/Europe?
Jon Bruford, I know far more than you think, sir. But while we're on the subject, why don't you invite 50,000,000 more immigrants (sorry--"newcomers") from abroad who don't give a rats as about British values, history, decorum, rule of law and way of life. And while you're at it, make sure they don't assimilate with the general population. Instead, promote diversity (DIVISION). One more thing, be really peachy if 25,000,000 would be hardcore muslims who just can't wait to ram Sharia Law down your throat.
Have a nice day.
no I really don't think you do.
Such embarrassing low production values. This man is a national treasure and you treat him like this?
INTERnational treasure
jabberwolf I'm sure you could get in touch with him and share your vast insight and expertise on the subject.
You're right. This stupid and uneducated journalist is rude. We do have the same kind of journalists in France
She owned that interview!
He's more than "yet another actor". Whether you find it funny or not, Monty Python was a comedy show with enormous cultural significance. The Life of Brian is a brilliant film that intelligently lampoons mankind's pathetic need to create and follow religions. I'm not saying Cleese's political views are more worthy than anyone else's, but many people are interested in what he may have to say.
Whether you consider an actor's work a "national treasure" or not, the idea that it is merely the "means for the inactive to pass the time .." is absurd. Whether you're watching a Shakespearean play, reading a novel, visiting an art gallery, watching a movie, or attending a concert, enjoyment of most art is an inactive pastime. People who consume art often create art too. Many of the same people are very "active" too!
All I saw was a woman trying to get through her script and a man expressing his views without playing the game.
Nice one Cleese!
if that is all you saw you are an idiot. John cleese remarked that (paraphrasing) "why didnt they tell us it wold be diificult!!".. Can you understand the difficulty with that staemengt. please use more than 2 sentences
@@stephencoveney4269An illiterate who can't spell or punctuate calling someone ELSE "an idiot" because that person actually knows how to be brief, clear, and succinct? Hilarious.
@Peder Hansen Re: "point im making is.. people are dumb. you are people rob" No, only people who think "I'm" is spelled "im" are dumb.
Does he still hate murdoch? Lol
Cleese you are the man, loving it!
John Cleese used to make me roar with laughter, he always makes me smile, even when talking about something serious. I feel he is right, most of the people do not get what they want here and have to put up with the idiotic rich patronizing them. If I had the money, I would leave.
id leave if i had the cash britain is going down the pan fast much better countries to.live in
You don’t need much money to leave. If you’re focused it’s doable.
@@amazonlife2609 My life is tangled up here, so I am probably stuck here now with such wonderfully noble, honest and well-groomed people as Boris.
Me to
@@johnchristmas7522 I am sad to say it about the country I was born in and have spent most of my life in!
To think i grew up believing the BBC was always correct and unbiased. What an ignorant TWAT i was... i cannot STAND it now.
Begrudge paying tv licence so much.
You do not have to pay send a letter saying you do not watch bbc there for will not pay . A man comes to your houes so do not watch bbc its easy then you dont pay the law is clear on that
Rubbish Interviewer. Kept interrupting, dishing out not-so-subtle insults, lacked depth and patience.
dainiu Amen
That's what media has become, and that's one of the reasons we don't trust it.
Same in every country. They only want to push their agenda and they are getting desperate.
Though labelling all media as not trustworhty is not helpful either. There are plenty of good journalists still.
Sophie K ~~plenty~~ a extreme few, I'd say
John Cleese is right. The standard of debate on Brexit is appalling and I am not sure there are many people
Who fully understand the complex issues around it. Whatever happens about Brexit, the issue cannot drag on
Forever without some kind of resolution.
The public don't really give a shit about the EU; all 90% of them care about is if Brexit will leave them better or worse off. Many bought the utter garbage Gove and Davis and Johnson spouted about a land of milk and honey, following them like the Pied Piper into a mire of shit and ruin.
Before Britain joined the EU it was the sick man of Europe, crippled for years by post-Colonial debts and lingering damage from WW2. And up until the recession it was a well-off nation with low debt, low inflation and a strong currency. It now has none of these things, thanks to eight years of chronic mismanagement and two years of Brexit when no-one (from government down to the rank and file) even know what Brexit means. Its the longest economic suicide note in history, perpetrated by the most useless government since Chamberlain.
You have intellectuals like Richard Dawkins putting their hands up and saying they don't understand Brexit that goes to show that it is far too complex for the average person to understand. There's just far too much data to assimilate and much of it unreliable. Dawkins said an issue this complicated should never have been put to a referendum and I think he is being proven right.
Oh Piss off, Dawkins is not a politician. He's the least capable of the 4 horsemen to comment on Brexit and one of them is dead.
People do not want to be ruled over by an unelected, unaccountable body that acts in the interests of themselves and their ideals. The EU is evil. People do not wan it.
Resolution or revolution, if the government continues to NOT listen to the will of the people the latter may happen before we think!
Left wing right wing, it's all nonsense. Equal amounts of bullshit. It shows that media no longer has journalistic standards but they're nothing but a mouth piece.
A beloved and accomplished guest and a sarcastic, simple minded host.
That laugh right in her face is amazing.
RAsplez 98
2:30
she was so jealous of him moving to the Caribbean!
Amazingly rude. But that's all the comedy talent cleese has these days.
Durins Bane He was laughing at her attempt at a typical mediaspin on his very clear point. Maybe rude, but totally deserved.
Durins Bane HAHAHAHAHA
He's not rude he's a very naughty boy.
The death of discourse came when it became impossible to explain a thing without being accused of supporting that thing.
Sounds like America.
Phookadude, I totally get it: by explaining the thing that it's become impossible to explain a thing without being accused of supporting that thing, you mean you support the thing that it's become impossible to explain a thing without being accused of supporting that thing. And you think discourse is dead!
phookadude you mean like Jordan Peterson.
@@tarnopol That's totally overthinking the thing!
That's also when my marriage died...
The interviewer is quite rude, interrupting Cleese or sometimes filling in the words for him, as if he needed her help. She apparently forgot that HE is the star and the story, not the other way around.
Ah yes, reminds me of American 24 hour news networks. Let me ask you a question and then YELL OVER YOU WHILE YOU TRY TO ANSWER.
@James Well, she's simply interrupting with her different views. Like a boring version of the Argument sketch. I guess it's modern TV and the need to be edgy, to ask the "hard questions", keep the tempo up and all that jazz. I for one would just want Cleese to get the time to form his own sentences and delve deeper into his decision to leave the UK. I'm glad that he has found a place where he enjoys life more.
I wish that do the same to Farage. When they interview him, they let him shout them down and interrupt them constantly.
She has to interrupt him before he spills out some truth
100% truth, what a legend he is
When he laughs in her face when she makes her "robust press" comment, that's priceless
MORE people need to do that
A clear sign the lady would have been a great addition to MP crew back in the day! :)
PS I should clarify perhaps... MP is to mean Monty Python, not Member of Parliament.
that's how I feel about the US media too.
Eugene of Savoy
😂😂😂
@@amarpatel1290 And the French as well, I assure you.
he is spot on , hardly anyone see's any merit in both sides of an argument , people treat politics like supporting a sports team , they just cheer on there side fanatically while not listening to anyone else.
At least ukip is trying to get a written constitution.
Vagabond Wastrel UKIP if you want to , my eyes are wide fuckin’ open.
very true, the left/right paradigm is all just a puppet show anyway
Benny Hill.... Haha haha.... The women's movement would have their heads explode if he was still on TV.
gingerbill128, that's not entirely true. I did a lot of research and spoke to a lot of people before I came to a decision.
"BBC haven't put Monthy Python out for 17 years, and I think the reason for that is so they dont wanna have to compare it with a lot of modern comedy"
Shots fired
Yeah, the "woke" comedy they publish now is rubbish compared to Monthy Python.
Does the BBC still do comedy? I thought they gave up in the 90s.
Satire is dead unfortunately
At least they put out the Boxed MPFC Norwegian Blu-Ray edition back in 2019 and also a brand new edition Fawlty Towers Blu-Ray that same year, So it's not like the BBC is ignoring the Monty Python's Flying Circus history and franchise.
True, b/c comedy has gotten much worse, weaker, as Britain's gone much further left. It did go mildly right b/c the country had been driven to a standstill by the left, labour strikes paralyzed the country. It had a decade of mild conservativism, then back to knee-jerk leftism. Most commenters here take left-world attitudes as normal.
I was 12 when I first saw "Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1973, John Cleese has been a part of my life forever. I am very happy I lived through a time where people actually grew up.
Thanks for the positive comments. 🌹🌹
He is a national treasure. Lovely person, smart and honest.
I think he is Self-opinionated and egotistical and ignorant.. because he cannot seem to believe that there can be any view other than that which agees with his. And has no respect for other peoples views or choices . He says on brexit about people views being just ' black or white'. You could say the same about him.amd his.views.
And there is nothing 'legend'about him. He is/was a comedian. Yes the python years were funny but nothing to make him a 'legend'. He is just a man who stays in the background now unless he has to make money for a divorce (something he said himself). I dont find him funny anymore. And i also think its ignorant to laugh sarcastically everytime a reporter tries to get a question in.
If he wants to leave the country.. fine.
@@joysaphine1 Well he was invited for a interview about he's opinions on Brexit yet the host is disrespectful, the role of the interviewer is to interview NOT contradict and expose personal opinions.
@basil fawlty lost respect for him when he jumped ship rather than stand for what he believes in
I agree with Mr Cleese. Love the laughter at the mention of a “robust” press!
yessss yesss yes
He seems like just a nice guy who wants to chat, she's a robot trying to get through the list of questions. Interesting contrast between a genuine personality and an artificial one.
Jonathan Siwalk
Used to think how funny he was.
Now I wouldn't piss on him if I came round a corner and found him burning to the ground, self appointed, superior, pompous areshole!
@@MauriatOttolink what reasons do you have for as you say in you're opinion he is a self appointed,superior, pompous arsehole ?
@igor šajinović Cockroaches are living beings like any other. Don't use them as an insult like that. They aren't lesser. Don't harm or kill Cockroaches. Insects, Arachnids, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Crustaceans, all creatures think and feel as research shows, as it also shows all living beings have subjective experience and the same capability for consciousness we have (can only measure capability, we can't prove consciousness in ourselves, other humans, or other creatures, so capability is the term used).
Even if no creature thought or felt, they are still living organisms as is all life and should be treated with Love, care and respect, as with all Life too.
Use harmless repellents to avoid and prevent infestations and gently and carefully move them from your home if they are there. Ironically harmless repellents are also the most effective method and when the proper repellent is used (usually Plants or Oils) and is properly harmless, then it is exactly that.
@@TheTaterTotP80 plants and trees are living things too so does that mean in you're opinion we should not eat anything or take medication which come from plants just like veg and fruits
The whole point of life is to be genuine, yes? Not not just be a bot in the machine.
"Now that sounds as if you're saying they're a bit thicker..."
"Yes"
And that’s how luvvies make it clear they are completely detached from reality
RIP BBC.
Getting John Cleese on the show and then repeatedly cutting him off and ignoring his comments???
Any interviewer on a news program of the BBC, like Newsnight, is unable to let the conversation partner speak a full sentence... especially when the line threatens to go differently from the predetermined outcome.
Did you watch it? He was allowed free reign to say what he wanted.
At least they got him on.
Except she didn't. Cleese spoke for the vast majority of the interview (by a considerable distance). Do a little empirical measurement if you don't think so. You'll find you're wrong.
Fantasy and reality are two different things.
@@penelopewaters4630 The first, and last time?
What's really absurd is the interviewer is illustrating his point brilliantly. Her questioning technique seeks absolute responses, or presents false binaries and centres the need for sound bites rather than elucidating the issue at hand. Even the pacing of the interview is sensationalist and the inclusion of less meaningful topics which are given the same discussion time creates a levelling that causes the significant information to be lost.
absurdly long sentence
@@yoya4766 I guess you don't use capitalization and full stops in your native language. Furthermore, don't read academic texts as some sentences can be six lines long.
@@Essex-ux4zv We natives use full stops. But that's English, not sure about your Double Dutch. I note you've added some, did you need to review your academic literature to know how to use a full stop?
You may not realise but this is the YT comment section not an academic treatise.
@@yoya4766 You realise You tube is an international platform and some people may respond in English though it isn't their first language. My response may seem like double dutch to you because you don't have an interest in aspects of the absurd in narratives. I also believe if your going to comment on someone's mechanics in written English, your writing should exemplify that convention which it doesn't. People from all walks of life use UA-cam and if you think that brief comment is an academic treatise then it wasn't meant to engage you. Read and respond to comments that match your intellectual leanings.
@@Essex-ux4zv Now you're babbling. Give it a rest, you can't even comprehend what I've written. Go strutt your pomposity to someone more gulliable.
He's talking about the media in general, including the BBC. He hasn't said here but he also has a major problem with political correctness where no one can say hardly anything nowadays without being hysterically "controversialised" which does tend to inhibit free expression of thought. Being offended and censored on behalf of other people not offended by stereotypes that exist, does not make for a free society.
Humannondancer ph right, do you know him well?
I guess life was just easier when you could call gay people what You wanted to, as but one example, before political correctness stopped you. Poor you, not being able to say what you want.
Ah... those were the days when everyone laughed at stereotypes-even gays* (insert various apparently victimized groups here) weren't they?
Ver Coda clearly the Irony in your own Comment is completely lost on you!
The legacy media are Fake News, British audiences know it .. and what are the Fake News media in Britain going to do about it? Stop being partisan in reporting? Take steps to support diversity of thought by ending blacklisting and deplatforming (through refusal to hire, refusal to renew contracts, sackings etc) of neutral and honest journalists, editors and staff? Take steps to RECRUIT honest and neutral staff? Be candid about the connections between staff/legacy news media and the establishment/Deep State? Stop describing as "far-right" anyone who does not enthusiastically repeat the mantras and platitudes the elites feel comfortable with? Fairly report on activities and movements that do not concur with elite “Approved Thought”? Reopen the comments sections under many of the articles published on their legacy news websites? EARN the trust of their audiences by CHANGING THEIR OWN BEHAVIOUR?
Not likely.. the Fake News media will probably double down on its attempts to discredit those news sources that audiences are turning to, and be silent when the State legislates against them.
What great interview responses Mr Cleese shared. We can learn a lot from his clear thinking.
i dont make jokes, i point them out ..... BEST COMEBACK EVER
23%
BTW. I thought you died, like over 70 years ago.
I love this. Cleese doesn't take sides, Leave or Remain, he just says that no one can be trusted. TRUE TRUE TRUE.
He did during the Brexit campaign - the leave side....
Doesn't like the result---runs away. Good riddance.
@@kingstumble He campaigned for Leave, I guess the discovery he was sharing a pack of lies kinda smarted...
I might be wrong but i thought I'd seen a video of him around the time of the referendum vote and he was an avid leaver
Cleese is a typical Vicar of Bray, i.e. he changes his principles to suit the circumstances. Or to quote the great Mr. Marx(Groucho not Karl)--"Here are my principles but if you don't like them I have others"
He should be labelled MR ENGLISH God bless this Man wherever he goes!
One of the best individuals that island has produced. Hope Cleese lives to be way over a hundred
I love this man. He is an absolute legend and this country is not deserving of him.
No.... and we don't care if he fucks off to the Carribbean either, unfortunately we can't....so....I I'll just wave my arse in the general direction of a condescending old elderberry smelling fart and say, "Hurry along now, it's 'women and children only' for the lifeboats, us ignorant, dense folk in steerage wouldn't want you to lose your bought and paid for seat to somewhere substantially better than the dense folk can expect to be any time soon!
I hope he's not moving to America ..you think UK is bad..hhaha.
The Arcadian thinks he's a country and refers to himself as we. Talk about multiple personality disorder.
No I think he's talking for the majority who couldn't really give a toss if John Cleese decides to leave?
The majority couldn't give a toss if the majority decided to leave, frankly.
‘I don’t like it I don’t trust it I don’t like the bankers they miss sold 80 billion.’ John Cleese you’re a legend. Thank you for being a stand up man.
Can you name me a better system Andy? You are right though Mimi, John Cleese always on point calling bullshit when he sees it.
Mimi shawi The banks contribute around 75 billion a year to the government in taxes, money that helps to pay for the nhs. I think Cleese was trying to be right on saying this sort of stuff, including the comment on the Leveson inquiry which looked good on paper but would have severely restricted press freedom. I suspect that he was obfuscating to cover up the fact that he was staunchly pro brexit during the campaign.
truth is good even when it challenges yah
She she should have asked him why Nevis as it is possibly the worst country in the world for financial secrecy aiding tax evaders & money launderers.
Andy Clifft not capitalism, but Corporatism. The merger of huge corporations and government power. Or, as Mussolini himself put it, fascism. In the economic sense, that is.
"Oh sorry, am I interrupting you??" Priceless Mr cleese 🤣😂👏🏻👏🏻
I used to do that as a kid (imitating Cleese), it's a bit stale now?
The generation of Mr Cleese made Britain,
Honestly speaking Britain blew itself up by yobs, Chavs and lord knows what not.
Slaves of USA, Germany, and India now
This is the greatest interview of all time.
I think so 😊
The reason the BBC don't air Faulty Towers or Monty Python is because it isn't PC.
Fawlty.
Mr. Cleese, a British national treasure. Bless him (from the U.S.). *A.
I'm so surprised that the BBC didn't switch the comments section off.
They're deleting them instead, much more labour intensive but gives the illusion of free speech.
Let me finish......
We left the year it was announced and never looked back. Hats off to OG Cleese for being comfortable addressing the uncomfortable.
Horrid, HORRID interviewer. Glad he laughed at her. Derision is funny.
Fit as fuck though!
He's having so much fun. I love this
Mauritian Struggle London, Manchester, Birmingham,Leeds etc.. all minority white British or natives. I don't get why UK doesn't want to accept 8 million Muslim & Africans by 2024?..
I fell sorry for the uk.....
Mauritian Struggle Being drunk, senile & bitter isn't "having fun."
@Roger Jennings If that were true, it still puts Cleese much higher on the intellectual scale than the globalist left and the press.
Where exactly do you see that he is drunk? And where are the signs he is senile? And where do you se he is bitter? Please enlighten me, I'm blind...
When you have a member of Monty Python outburst in laughter in your face it means you've just said something that, even compared to Python's standards, is utterly absurd!
ikr, yikes
So, claiming that Albania is so much better than the UK, the US, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Italy, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, etc. Why is he not moving to Albania? Or the Netherlands? Doesn't it seem absurd? Or is it because you guys have a bias favoring Cleese?
For reference, Albania is a former Soviet satellite state, the poorest country in all of Europe, even surpassing the poverty of Ukraine. The state religion is Islam, and their main exports are crude petroleum, which they cannot refine themselves, and the production of footwear, most of which is stinking tanned leather submerged in dangerous acids. Yeah, Albania is so much better than the UK. Go there, Cleese, by all means. But no, he chose to move to a remote exclusive island in the Caribbean.
@@Thor.Jorgensen You've got points there.
I believe he mentioned those as public trust ratios in the media.
He can move anywhere he wants to, that affects me zip.
He mentioned those Caribbean islands (if I'm not mistaken) because of the weather and the people. And yes he can move to those exclusive places. Yes, the typical rich Brit neocolonialist tourist.
No one lives in the UK because of the weather and the people. Been there.
@@Humongous_Pig_Benis What I find even more infuriating is how he repeatedly insisted on how Brexit would solve all of the UK's problems and shifted the entire blame on the EU.
And once he got everything he could ever want, it turned out that post-Brexit was not the dream that he wanted. And it turned out that Brexit simply made everything worse for the UK, with food shortages and limited NHS funds, as was predicted 5 years ago before the Brexit vote. Can't say he wasn't warned.
I honestly think he just can't stand the fact that, for once, the media was actually right about something, even though he doesn't trust the media. So once he realized that he messed up, he again saved face by playing the blame game and abandoning ship. Because imagine a Tory ever taking responsibility for the mess they got the country in. That has never happened.
@@Thor.Jorgensen That, my dear, is a _British Self Problem_ .
Like I wrote before, I lived there - and hated it.
That's Britain's problem to solve now.
_Tada_ from Europe to Brexitopotamia!
_(whistles away)_
If I could sit down and have a conversation with one person, it’d be Cleese. Not to talk about Python or even comedy, but just current affairs and the history that has lead to it. His insights are accurate and his manner of conveying his thoughts are so genuine. I would love to speak with someone like Stephen Fry, or the late Christopher Hitchens, but I feel like it’d be like speaking to a professor, a bit formal or academic. I don’t get that feeling from Cleese.
I knew a publisher who had a conversation with Cleese and said he was extremely strange and off-putting, definitely very academic. On the other hand, she said having lunch with Palin was one of the best experiences of her life.
Yeah because nothing is more interesting than listening to an old man whinging about problems in his head.
"Waaaaah i can't call black men niggers anymore" isn't what i'd call thoughtful insight...but you do you mate.
I would have loved to speak to Terry Jones about history. He released a book, years ago, which I loved and I have a feeling that he had a lot more of them but was hampered by the Python legacy
I'd say the word conversation is generous, tutorial, maybe. Being a captive whinge absorber ,that's it.
STOP patronizing him and stop interrupting him
Its what she does... She did the same thing when interviewing Jordan Peterson... Being a clinical psychologist though, he tore her a new one.
He's a has been, time for him to go to the the old folks home.
She's a BBC reporter.
What do you expect? 😳
@@tomfuller4205 He's a legend, time for you to STFU.
@@vladimirstanescu6616
His legasy will live on. Great man
Im so proud that he's British.
Thanks to all the Monty team.
We miss you :((
We laugh at North Korean propaganda but our media entities are exactly the same except with better production values.
Yes, ironic isnt it :)
Nah, NK propaganda doesn't fuck up the way UK propaganda does.
I dont think they have TV vans in Sweden either. Instead we have a DDR like system where shops report if you buy a TV, they send notes asking if you have a TV, call you on the phone and even visit you home to check if you have a TV.
UK is literally North Korea
Brian Danzig remember we pay for the BBC the Koreans get their propaganda for free.
8:59 Thank you Mr. Cleese for having the balls to tell it like it is.
Genuine good ol boy! Brilliant stuff Mr Cleese!
Dear journalist, if you don't agree with your guest:
1/ let him speak his mind until the end of his sentences (otherwise it's just rude)
2/if your point is THAT important that you feel like interrupting him why don't you write a book or get yourself interviewed instead of being on both sides (interviewer and self-interviewed)?
BTW you seem to have missed some journalism lectures like "method of interview" where they teach you directive questions, non-directive questions, hypothetical and behavioral questions... And they will teach you that asking interro-negative questions is biased, it implies something of your point of view and influence the answer of your guest... but what do I know... I'm no journalist...you are the expert... or are you?
Mr Fish, the interviewee is showing signs of senility, therefore needed prompting and assistance.
Oh come on, a good interviewer can't let the guest present him /herself exactly as planned, that's how fascists get votes. No, you have to test your guest, especially if it's a controversial one, so that every one can make up their own mind. She's not very talented, but that's not the point.
Well his earring might be bad but his thinking is very sharp... You might not agree or like it but saying he is senile is a bit of a stretch in my opinion... AND that doesn't change the basic rules of a proper interviewer... I don't suppose you meant he is an old guy, let's take no precaution to the way we address him... That would be uncivilized therefore very unlikely of you Mister Philippe Voie...
Oh come on yourself Mister Benji :-) I don't think John Cleese needs to be shaken and stirred (or not stirred). He is the type of person who speaks his mind right away whether you like it or not. Politicians are different species but him... he is so disgusted by England that there is no point interrupting him... Unless you need to show off for some reason...
Frederic Poisson I loved everything he said, I just don't agree with your critic about her.
She started the problem with the press' credibility issues at 5:18. She said, "Because we were asked a question and we had to choose a side." I didn't think it was the job of the press to choose sides. Aren't they supposed to report the news fairly and as unbiased as possible?
When she said 'we', she was referring to 'everyone' (and more specifically 'pundits'), who Cleese was referring to in the previous sentence. They were talking about the nature of public debate and forecasting the future. In debate and when forecasting future events, ordinary people must 'choose a side' according to their beliefs on what is right and what will happen. Then the media reports both sides in the most 'fair' and 'unbiased' way possible.
Richard Jones. Report news fairly and unbiased . The BBC .have had many years of practice at doing exactly the opposite, basically if they can't spin it to suit their agenda they don't mention it .
The Brexit debate never listed a set of things that the EU provides in our favour, it never made a case for the efficiency of the system or the improvements that have occurred because of it... nobody seemed to have much concern about how it was run or how good an organisation it is. Instead they just talked about the dangers of leaving without the mention of the dangers of staying. It was pure bollocks, as was the inflation of the figure on the side of the bus as if using the net or gross figure really was misunderstood after it was discussed time and again what that meant not that it effected anybodies vote... pull the other one, the Government backing one side of the debate only, asking president Obama to lie, George Osbourne and his mates spreading misinformation about punishment budgets and self interested groups preaching the virtues of the EU just because they take money from it... all rubbish. When the BBC were wheeling people on to talk about us potentially losing all our foreign nurses you knew it was rubbish, it was the first time I noticed that reality had very little to do with the news. Just because Brexit was supposed to allow us to protect our borders never meant we were going to extradite people we need or block people we need from entering the country and to represent things this way was the final straw... since then we have had the gender pay rubbish and all that and I just decided I will never turn that crap on again. How a mainstream media company can misrepresent the truth only to push an ideological narrative like that just discredits them completely.
@Max Bamford actually like Cleese's comment on the research done on pundits successful forecasting being no better than anyone. The rise of pundits as news sources where choosing sides creates drama and entertainment has, imo, been a direct influencer in the rise of distrust in the MSM. Factual and thoughtful discussion has given way to sound bites, opinions and confrontation on a continuous cycle. That encourages choosing sides, i.e. "us vs them". It is a recipe for negativity and mistrust. Cleese is correct when he says most things are complex and neither solutions nor analysis can be reduced to "either/or" options.
@@Daveyboyz1978 you have blocked people from coming to do the dirty jobs the British don't want to do and many thousands of immigrants in Britain have left which leavers wanted but now you are looking at a shortage of workers lol
Well done John Cleese! You are an inspiration.
He looks amazing for 78. And he obviously still has his wits about him.
The press shouldn't choose a side. They should report the news. As flatly as possibly, as far as I'm concerned.
Chris Winter the definition of journalism is to report events and facts without bias. Journalism is dead, if it ever existed.
The press barons disagree! They know better than us in their view
Amazingly, I only actually started to realise the press were politically biassed when I started watching CNN during the US presidential elections. I guess I never really cared about politics till Trump's entrance into the arena piqued my interest.
FraggingBard, I didn't like Donald Trump at the beginning. But I thought I'd follow along for entertainment value. I'm a New Zealander so it really didn't matter to me. As it happens, I like him now. So, to answer your question: CNN were as biassed as you could possibly get.
This is probably why the Netherlands has a lot of trust in the media (apparently). It's boring af, and it's great. There's not a single program that puts itself up as "news" while trying to mix objective news and a subjective talk show. The news is cut and dry. It reports what happens and what the involved parties have said, without making any suggestion on who is right, unless actual facts contradict statements. We do have a few of these talk shows that try to talk about actual news, but because it's so disconnected from the "news" it's very clear and unambiguous that it's people with a personal opinions talking about the subject. Most likely these shows are very liberal though (it's a very liberal country) but if conservatives or 'right wing' people are invited on these shows, it doesn't feel like they're put down. It's often one side vs the other side, with the host moderating only when things become chaotic.
*Watching Cleese **_dismantle_** the lying press puppet is just delicious!*
Always loved John Cleese.
They never allow anyone to make a point that takes more than 5 seconds.
Cause complex taugth requires more then that to vocalize - and of course, it cant be allowed.
unless it agrees with their agenda
Yep and it gets fucking annoying!!
He's leaving because he doesn't want a front row seat to the Century of Humiliation Part 2: British Boogaloo.
you can only be humiliated if you let yourself be, infact you are always if you let youself be..... nationalistic bs
Cleese can barely hide his contempt for Maitlis and for what she and her family represent.
janmarsh who are they and what do they stand for? Genuine question
Amenhotep, She is part of a concentrated attempt by an alien entity in Britain to break down national identity within European nations peoples. Aggressive interviewing & crass insult to the guest is a trademark these days.
Barbara Spectre is staggeringly open about it : ua-cam.com/video/85BKDj_1vVU/v-deo.html
janmarsh forgive me if I’m mistaken but it reads a lot like you are just taking issue with the fact she is Jewish?
Lol he literally doesn't care, keep your antisemitism to yourself pal
Fintan, Zionist. She is supportive of the Globalist Zionist push to break down national identity European citizens have. She happens to be Jewish .... Not all are. Her disgraceful manner is totally unwarranted.
love John Cleese he is so smart intelligent. A truly funny & talented man.