John Cleese's War on Wokeism

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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2022
  • The Monty Python legend says political correctness is ruining creativity in all aspects of human activity.
    From shows and movies ranging from Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers to Life of Brian and A Fish Called Wanda, the comedian John Cleese has uproariously and relentlessly satirized politics and religion while stretching the boundaries of decorum and good taste like so many silly walks.
    Now 82, Cleese-who studied law at Cambridge-has recently set his sights on political correctness and wokeism, which he says are the enemy not only of humor but of creative thinking in all areas of human activity.
    He appeared at FreedomFest, the annual July gathering of libertarians in Las Vegas, to discuss creativity, the subject of his 2020 "short and cheerful guide." After giving a talk on the attitudes and habits he believes are necessary for creativity to 2,500 attendees, Reason's Nick Gillespie interviewed Cleese about the importance of freedom of thought and expression for a flourishing society.
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    Produced by Nick Gillespie; Footage: Courtesy of FreedomFest; Edited by Adam Czarnecki and Meredith Bragg

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  • @DianaSwan
    @DianaSwan 8 місяців тому +39

    'People sitting there waiting for the thrill of being offended' Absolutely brilliant

  • @bossofthemoss450
    @bossofthemoss450 5 місяців тому +106

    “Waiting for the thrill of being offended”. So accurate and such a reflection of today’s banal society.

    • @AllanMogensen
      @AllanMogensen 4 місяці тому +1

      Those mostly offended are those who can´t behave like they always did without concern or consideration for others. "My lust and desire comes first"

    • @petejohnson8397
      @petejohnson8397 4 місяці тому

      ​@@AllanMogensencan you please give an example/hypothetical?

    • @Threemore650
      @Threemore650 3 місяці тому +1

      I have an old Saxon soul and I think it’s that that makes me want to do whatever it is that I’m being coerced or bullied into.
      I refuse to sunbathe and am now in the top 1% of whiteness.
      I wear a large, visible cross at all times.
      I’d quite like a T.shirt with ‘certified racist’ and a middle finger on it.
      I’m not really all that racist, I lived my whole life post racially, as according to MLK, but the idiocy of picking on the least racist people on earth, the only ones with outgroup compassion that goes beyond words, just makes me want to rebel.
      I RAGE at ALL injustice. A deep sense of fair play pulses in every cell of my body and it sees no colour but misty crimson.
      Meekness is yet another mistranslation of the Bible. We are commanded to fight evil.
      Also, turning the other cheek has been inverted, it’s the opposite of surrender.
      The right side is where you’d strike a lesser person, turning the cheek is an assertion of equality to the challenger.

    • @Threemore650
      @Threemore650 3 місяці тому

      @@AllanMogensencan you clarify that?

    • @AllanMogensen
      @AllanMogensen 3 місяці тому

      I haven´t recorded all the whimping people I´ve heard complaining about victims seeking justice while longing for the "Good old days" when they could grab them by the pussies without consequences@@petejohnson8397

  • @eyeh8liberals
    @eyeh8liberals 7 місяців тому +57

    The energy this man showed in Fawlty Towers was superhuman. So much energy in his acting that I thought he would have a heart attack.

    • @haroldstafford3189
      @haroldstafford3189 6 місяців тому +5

      amazing that his writing Partner was Connie Booth,and they were Divorcing at the same time!

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 4 місяці тому +1

      @@haroldstafford3189 That was when the second series was shot.

    • @leonardoiglesias2394
      @leonardoiglesias2394 Місяць тому

      Thats technik.

  • @uweschroeder
    @uweschroeder 11 місяців тому +62

    "There are people who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended" - I think that's the best characterization of today's society I've heard so far.

    • @AlbertHEldridge
      @AlbertHEldridge 10 місяців тому +1

      That’s because Don Rickles is dead.

  • @Wolf-hh4rv
    @Wolf-hh4rv Рік тому +90

    “People sitting their deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended”….. the defining characteristic of 50% of US society.

    • @dingfeldersmurfalot4560
      @dingfeldersmurfalot4560 Рік тому +4

      It used to be about curse words and religious differences. Now it's about almost anything and everything.

    • @phoenixrising4073
      @phoenixrising4073 Рік тому +9

      In my experience it is much less than half who are woke. The media would have you think it's the majority when it simply isn't so. They cannonize those who complain and marginalize those who produce.

    • @wmason1961
      @wmason1961 Рік тому

      Not just "U.S."

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Рік тому

      @@wmason1961 because the US is the biggest global exporter of that bullshit, obviously not just the US, others import that woke shit

    • @dustinDraig
      @dustinDraig Рік тому +2

      @@phoenixrising4073 Yeah, I just today read an article about people being offended that Cracker Barrel added "Impossible Meat" sausage to their menu. There were several articles on the topic but the one I read just contained a bunch of "A person on Facebook posted..." quotes. It's called the Nutpicker Fallacy--for any position you can find someone who supports it, so cherry-pick an extreme position and find the nut who is arguing for it and use that to make your case that "many people believe" whatever nonsense you want--be it people who want to claim that we should not use the phrase "pregnant women" because it's exclusionary or weirdos who think the Book of Genesis is meant to be taken literally and want that taught in schools. Then write a clickbait article to rile up your base.

  • @mikepenn8760
    @mikepenn8760 Рік тому +2234

    "...deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended." So well put.

    • @roscius6204
      @roscius6204 Рік тому +26

      That is good

    • @rigelloar7474
      @rigelloar7474 Рік тому +46

      That's poetic really.

    • @glendacollins2898
      @glendacollins2898 Рік тому +44

      This phrase well describes my ex spouse of over 20 years. He is a pathological narcissist. I’m convinced that those who graduated from Narc U are now running the globe. (I was so pleased to be in this audience at Freedom Fest.)

    • @mjr2451
      @mjr2451 Рік тому +62

      That’s why offense is “taken“.

    • @LittleOrla
      @LittleOrla Рік тому +9

      I know someone like that.

  • @nikbull1258
    @nikbull1258 Рік тому +202

    I was a preteen in the seventies when Monty Python first came out. My parents didn’t understand this new radical form of comedy but they allowed my one year older brother and myself to watch and it’s been a lifelong love for both of us since but also includes their successors. Thanks Mum and Dad.

    • @johndenicola6173
      @johndenicola6173 11 місяців тому +3

      Very interesting! I'm from the US, and I remember my dad watching it often (possibly in reruns) in the mid 1970s (I was about 11) . My dad always had a very good sense of humor. He frequently told what I/we call "Dad Jokes" THat follows what Cleese said, You don't know if something is funny unless you try it out." Even a joke that may flop, it would still be funny in some way - If not for me, it would be funny for someone else! - I have followed in my dad's footsteps. The thing I find neat is that people laugh at my jokes much more than I would think..

    • @ianthesoccerref
      @ianthesoccerref 11 місяців тому +1

      Did Mum and Dad ever come to appreciate the sarcasm/wit/genius of the Pythons?

    • @healthcareforallfiftyseven3773
      @healthcareforallfiftyseven3773 11 місяців тому +1

      I recall from a Cleese novel ( a bio, the name escapes me) that he said Python pursued incongruity and silliness without punch lines. Awkward situations, things juxtaposed against type, and the like. This became something like a defining aspect between American comedy and British comedy, or at least Python comedy--a sketch or routine which lacks a punch line. It becomes dangerously close to seeing or not seeing the emperor's clothes, but really, does one need to 'get' a thing so long as it amuses you? It's fair to admit that you don't see why something is considered funny, so long as you don't criticize those who are amused anyway whether they 'get it' or not. I have no idea what I am saying.

    • @MrPossumeyes
      @MrPossumeyes 11 місяців тому

      Gotta say, I just enjoyed the stupidity. I was a teen but had to leave home before enjoying freedom from restriction. Parents, right? The Fish Slapping Dance? The Larch? How much screen time would a modern network give either? I mean, what could possibly be funny about a chap being slapped upside the head with a salmon? Or listening to a fellow intone "The Larch" while looking at a fucking tree, over and over again? Aahhh, but if you had about 30 minutes of this type of stupidity on tape (oops. old boy give-away) you could sell those bytes to advertisers, couldn't you?! But I ask, why is the only stupidity available to me limited to the internet, and so VERY, VERY stupid? Why can't some of it be intelligent?

    • @jlevogiani2012
      @jlevogiani2012 11 місяців тому +4

      I found Monty Python on PBS when I was about 11. My parents didn't know that I was watching it because it was on long after they'd gone to bed. The only problem my Mum would've had with it would've been the nudity, and even that would only have elicited a scornful cringe. 😄

  • @IIVVBlues
    @IIVVBlues 11 місяців тому +12

    This is why I keep a dog. He's a constant generator of laughter. Laughter makes life better.

    • @christiankeul9892
      @christiankeul9892 6 днів тому

      Like Russell Howard said: Live is a struggle and silly is a rest.

  • @rhinocore
    @rhinocore Рік тому +376

    Making John Cleese laugh would be the highlight of anyone's life.

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 Рік тому

      Having Miley Cyrus orgasm would be a close second ;) Like the perfect combo of brawn and brains .

    • @DeirdreCatherineDoyle
      @DeirdreCatherineDoyle Рік тому +4

      I WAS TOLD NOT TO LAUGH AS IT WRINKLESS YOUR FACE! I HAVE LAUGH WRINKLES AND PROUD

    • @p4our587
      @p4our587 Рік тому

      Making him hiccup & finally be over… would be mine.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Рік тому +3

      Why? It's not hard.

    • @ClyDIley
      @ClyDIley 11 місяців тому +7

      ​@@Dowlphin That goodfellow, is either one of the weakest attempts to troll someone I have ever seen, or... the most cynical and/or asinine thing I've read all week.
      Either way, making one of if not the greatest humorist of all time laugh will always be a flattering compliment for anyone who isn't an egotistical ass with a bloated sense of self worth...

  • @timbuktu8069
    @timbuktu8069 Рік тому +295

    It's so nice to hear an interviewer who understands that he is talking to a comedian.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Рік тому +8

      It's basic skillset for the job to understand who you are talking to and adjust accordingly.
      Of course it's a problem if someone without humor interviews a comedian. But it is basic skillset of other people to not arrange such a pairing in the first place.

    • @jeffmarden9502
      @jeffmarden9502 11 місяців тому +4

      I'm not at all familiar with the interviewer, but was struck at how well he did his job in that particular interview!

    • @nortiusmaximus1789
      @nortiusmaximus1789 10 місяців тому +1

      This interviewer was soggy melba toast. Cleese was reaching out to no avail for some interaction upon which he could develop a humorous discussion.

    • @timbuktu8069
      @timbuktu8069 10 місяців тому +1

      @@nortiusmaximus1789 And with all that, it was still ahead of most other interviews.

    • @robinwatson4282
      @robinwatson4282 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@nortiusmaximus1789 I think he did a perfectly good job. He pops off well-pitched questions that Cleese answers with obvious interest/sincerity , and moreover, freely and uninterrupted. On the few occasions the interviewer does interject, it's almost always brief/on-point and prompts Cleese to extrapolate further (which of course Cleese can do so well). Interviewing skills 101: The audience was there to listen to Cleese talk; and he did - a lot.

  • @torch2k
    @torch2k 7 місяців тому +14

    For the record, the name Cleese was struggling to recall was Donald Hebb, a Canadian psychologist who has been described as the father of neoropsychology and neural networks. Brilliant guy, fascinating subject.
    This is why people like John Cleese are so interesting: it's not what they know per se, it's the diversity of interests that drive their curiosity and their ability to explain their thinking in relation to those influences.

    • @TomHuston43
      @TomHuston43 4 місяці тому

      "it's the diversity of interests that drive their curiosity and their ability to explain their thinking in relation to those influences."??🙃🙃🙃.

  • @MarcAndreLacas
    @MarcAndreLacas Рік тому +235

    "There are people sitting... who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended" - John Cleese (around 18:00)

    • @ViaConDias
      @ViaConDias Рік тому +24

      I feel like there's a whole generation of people that wakes up like that every morning

    • @opeeate
      @opeeate Рік тому +11

      yeah they're everywhere.

    • @Franklin-pc3xd
      @Franklin-pc3xd Рік тому

      I've done some social behavioral research on this and found that being offended addicts are the same population as those who wear surgical masks whilst driving alone in their cars.

    • @daddog9252
      @daddog9252 Рік тому +1

      Rubbish........live in an area of the USA that presently boils over with HATE.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Рік тому +4

      They want to put the skillset they have been taught to good use.

  • @reedsawyer5704
    @reedsawyer5704 Рік тому +62

    Humor is the ultimate cleansing of the soul. When you laugh, you change your entire attitude. We need more edgy comics and standup comedians.

    • @sickoftheleftwingscum
      @sickoftheleftwingscum Рік тому +1

      Good luck with that especially when watching the BBC ! ☹️👈 👍

    • @DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL
      @DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL 11 місяців тому +5

      Only humor can speak the truth without being censored. It's a very serious profession.

    • @charlottecolley8713
      @charlottecolley8713 10 місяців тому +1

      ❤️🙏💫

  • @Sam-lm8gi
    @Sam-lm8gi Рік тому +2656

    Unbelievable. This man is older than Joe Biden, but sharper than most twenty somethings.

    • @sitarnut
      @sitarnut Рік тому +227

      Cleese's fingernail clippings are more intelligent than some entire governments.

    • @capnmo6718
      @capnmo6718 Рік тому +142

      That's because Cleese has more humour than every Democrat, Republican, and a large portion of 20-somethings combined. Being able to laugh, genuinely laugh, keeps us sharp.

    • @CONEHEADDK
      @CONEHEADDK Рік тому +72

      @@capnmo6718 other way around. High IQ leads to humor, in general.

    • @Acujeremy
      @Acujeremy Рік тому +4

      What about Big Mike?

    • @michaelterry1000
      @michaelterry1000 Рік тому

      You can not compare John Cleese with Joe Biden.
      Joe Biden is in cognitive decline and John Cleese is not.
      That is not a joke or a political jab, it is just a statement of fact.

  • @stringlarson1247
    @stringlarson1247 Рік тому +43

    So much wisdom he's able to share. Nearing 60, I'm grateful to have discovered Monty Python et. al. at age 10. Thank you to the old PBS for the Sunday night lineup.
    And to all the Pythons for a lifetime of humor that has aged so well.

  • @75blackviking
    @75blackviking Рік тому +233

    John Cleese is simply damn brilliant. His comedy is surreal and deep. His philosophy is more timely than ever.

    • @KibyNykraft
      @KibyNykraft Рік тому +3

      Although not all CALLED wokeism is a dumb thing ,we could boil it down to this : Religion. Wokeism is religion. It's a negative form of rigidity or the lack of intellect.

    • @waggishsagacity7947
      @waggishsagacity7947 11 місяців тому +2

      @@KibyNykraft Agree. I would use the apt word DOGMA too.

    • @wordwarrior2350
      @wordwarrior2350 8 місяців тому

      I am sure you think so especially if you are a Conservative Christian, also.

    • @jacksimpson-rogers1069
      @jacksimpson-rogers1069 6 місяців тому

      Brilliant observation!

    • @stevev238
      @stevev238 4 місяці тому

      A true classic Liberal who fights for real liberty not simply a right to be offended.

  • @carolbrooks9161
    @carolbrooks9161 Рік тому +126

    John Cleese is amazing! "Do you use any performance enhancing drugs? Money!" He always says the unexpected. 🤣

  • @willianjohnam7350
    @willianjohnam7350 Рік тому +1177

    This man is a living legend and UK's national treasure.

    • @peterclark6290
      @peterclark6290 Рік тому +34

      He also loves the USA, on Wednesdays (4am-5am) he can pretend to 'like' Australians, etc. He is humanity's treasure.

    • @mrobert2707
      @mrobert2707 Рік тому +11

      @@peterclark6290 i had a similar thought, but you articulated it quite well.

    • @jmwoods190
      @jmwoods190 Рік тому +39

      Alongside Rowan Atkinson who is just as hilarious(NOT just as Mr. Bean) but also fights the same fight against political hyper-correctness and cancel culture.

    • @pathacker4963
      @pathacker4963 Рік тому +19

      A global legend and treasure!

    • @michael2974
      @michael2974 Рік тому +17

      John Cleese is great. They broke the mold after he was made. Of course, they tried to say it was an accident...

  • @randyfitch7911
    @randyfitch7911 11 місяців тому +155

    Can you imagine John Cleese and George Carlin together on stage discussing their thoughts on life? That is a show I would have loved to have seen.

    • @gretchenwestreicher3234
      @gretchenwestreicher3234 11 місяців тому +4

      Omg yes!

    • @googlyeyedcat
      @googlyeyedcat 11 місяців тому +4

      Definitely yes

    • @lorena5mash
      @lorena5mash 11 місяців тому +4

      I only discovered George Carlin sometime this year (am not from the States) and what a wonderful discovery it was. I can listen to his bits over and over because they're as much funny as they are true. He really had an interesting outlook on life and it would have indeed been great to have him up there with John Cleese! Alas, we can only dream about how amazing it would have been.

    • @jayweiss602
      @jayweiss602 10 місяців тому +4

      The two best comedians ever, insight like no others!

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 7 місяців тому +3

      Bill Hicks as third?

  • @jezzter4293
    @jezzter4293 11 місяців тому +23

    What a brilliant man. He still makes people laugh which as he says is the most important thing. Bless him for helping so many people get through difficult times with laughter

  • @michaelconway2024
    @michaelconway2024 Рік тому +178

    “There are people out there deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended.”
    So funny and true.

    • @catherineberry6971
      @catherineberry6971 Рік тому +7

      Like gossip’s who lust to spread rumors and cause mayhem. No difference.

    • @dikkie1000
      @dikkie1000 Рік тому +24

      It gets worse, there are people who are professionally offended on behalf of other people, who don't give a damn, but should according to the formentioned offendees.
      And that such people exist and are serious about it, is sillier than a python sketch.

    • @wtfvids3472
      @wtfvids3472 Рік тому +4

      @@dikkie1000 yes because "we are all the same" HAHAHA

  • @bearowen5480
    @bearowen5480 Рік тому +544

    "People sitting there, waiting for the thrill of being offended...." Wow, was that ever great or what?! This is what confirms the age old notion of listening to and respecting the wisdom of our elders!

  • @helen9289
    @helen9289 Рік тому +15

    this is awesome John Cleese is one of the greatest humorist/satirists who has ever lived ..........he is also extremely intelligent & his wit is as sharp as ever ......

  • @morkey74
    @morkey74 11 місяців тому +85

    we need more John Cleese in the world

    • @tomssongslive6238
      @tomssongslive6238 10 місяців тому +5

      Nice idea, but there is only one John Cleese!

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 7 місяців тому +2

      We are not allowed to have more than one John Cleese. And if they had a choice, they'd ban the one we have as well.
      Kinda like Benny Hill - totally different comedy, of course. Hill had a sarcastic view on the "typical women-chasing man", making fun of that stereotype with the "typical male" turning out to be a loser. But sudden people began to take his satirical sketches as earnest, serious depictions of sexism.

    • @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry
      @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry 6 місяців тому

      ​@@klausstock8020Most people can't think beyond their next meal/snack/drink/orgasm/payday/payday loan/sports bet or vapid woke comment. They can't get beyond the boobies of Benny's sight gags and understand his subversive humour. What's hilarious (pun intended) is that many of them think HE's "stupid"!

  • @dunringill1747
    @dunringill1747 Рік тому +301

    “People sitting there deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended” - I've heard this thought phrased in other ways but I think I enjoy this one the most.

    • @millertas
      @millertas Рік тому +7

      I was offended by that.😃

    • @RobMcGrath0
      @RobMcGrath0 Рік тому +7

      @@millertas ..."Help, Help!!! I'm being offended 0.o"....

    • @christopherheckman7957
      @christopherheckman7957 Рік тому +25

      There's an old joke. A woman checks into a motel that has two buildings, one facing the other. She gets to her room and sees the other building out the window, where a man is walking around naked. She calls the manager and says that he needs to cover up. The manager comes up to her room first, walks around, and says, "Yes, he's naked, but you can't see anything below his waist, no matter where you are in the room." She replies, "Oh, yeah? You can if you stand on the bed!"
      [EDITED: I had "above" instead of "below" originally.]

    • @SerunaXI
      @SerunaXI Рік тому +12

      For every troll, there's a bridge.

    • @npats550
      @npats550 Рік тому +5

      Love that comment! I loved Monty Python, especially the films. I think John Cleese was always my favourite.
      Even now, he's as sharp as a tack!

  • @jayjames7055
    @jayjames7055 Рік тому +201

    "How do you write a masterpiece?" "Well, when I did Fish called Wanda ..." "Can I just interrupt you there, that film still gets applauded." JC goes off on tangent. Just as JC is about to reveal a great writing secret, the Genius interviewer stops him in his tracks. So many interviewers do this. Please get your own ego's out of the equation, FFS! (In the future this could be considered one of the biggest blunders in interview history).

    • @aikiseppuku
      @aikiseppuku Рік тому +47

      The interviewer doesn't seem interested in JC at all, as if he just thinks about himself and his questions.
      Very bad interview. Just let JC talk alone for 30 minutes would have been much better

    • @bertplank8011
      @bertplank8011 Рік тому +26

      Yes he is an annoyance.....and typically American ......Americans.....jeeeeez.They dont do subtlety....their tv is absolutely appalling like the people who own and run it.

    • @nordicexile7378
      @nordicexile7378 Рік тому +26

      Agreed, every interruption he made was annoying and self-serving.

    • @GaryDean
      @GaryDean Рік тому +8

      give the interviewer a break. he's american.

    • @blotski
      @blotski Рік тому +22

      Good. It’s not just me then. A couple of times JC starts a fascinating answer only to be cut off and the conversation taken off at a tangent. Pretty annoying.

  • @danhanqvist4237
    @danhanqvist4237 Рік тому +176

    Cleese is a consistent opponent of authoritarianism. And The Life of Brian -- from 1979! -- was prescient. Well worth watching today. It's even harder-hitting now.

    • @ArmySigs
      @ArmySigs Рік тому +1

      Except most of the people obsessed with "Wokeism" are far right fascist authoritarians. They have hijacked the whole debate and turned into simply a hate campaign against gays.

    • @EvelynBaron
      @EvelynBaron Рік тому +15

      George Harrison morgaged his house to fund it ..... priceless.

    • @rk41gator
      @rk41gator Рік тому

      "a consistent opponent of authoritarianism" is the English Aesthetic as described by Andy Edwards, musician and educator.....
      ua-cam.com/video/H6PY7fcL6Ww/v-deo.html

    • @slavojalois1639
      @slavojalois1639 Рік тому +11

      The best movie ever made, in my opinion, I when to see it three times in the opening week of The Life of Brian, and every time I told someone about how awesome it is I ended up going with them to see it.
      Every single word uttered in the movie is funny. Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 🇦🇺

    • @robhussey5732
      @robhussey5732 Рік тому +2

      I love Brian! The opening scene in the manger has me pissing myself!! Soo great!!

  • @Azobassify
    @Azobassify 11 місяців тому +9

    I was the in studio propmaster on a late night TV show a while back and John Cleese was one of the nicest guests ever on the show. He was a true, down to earth gentlemen. As mainstream television became more disgustingly woke, I was eventually driven off that show the eventually out of the business 3 years before my planned retirement for not falling in line with the poison shot. It only makes sense that a down to earth, real person would stand up and speak out against the Marxist disease that is destroying everything. I wish more would, but the majority of celebrities are insecure followers who will to sell their souls for their fame and fortune... God bless John Cleese.

  • @Polyphemus47
    @Polyphemus47 Рік тому +230

    "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" probably saved my life. I saw it at the absolute lowest point in my life, and it changed my whole outlook - I thought, "THIS. This is what life can be like." Thank you forever, John. I owe you.

    • @janete5331
      @janete5331 Рік тому +5

      Wtg Bill,good job you watched it.Uplifting film,so funny. X

    • @pyrmontbridge4737
      @pyrmontbridge4737 Рік тому +6

      Monty Python was the antidote to the parent generation's biggest putdown: "Stop being silly!"

    • @thecharliec5393
      @thecharliec5393 Рік тому +12

      "You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're banging 'em together.!"...

    • @C64SX
      @C64SX Рік тому +2

      @@pyrmontbridge4737 Stop that! It's silly!
      /The Colonel

    • @kellykelly7747
      @kellykelly7747 Рік тому +4

      So so true! Humor saved my life many times.

  • @pavel0900
    @pavel0900 Рік тому +1430

    The man is a legend. I don’t know if we can compute the number of years that were added to our lives, all thanks to his comedy. Thank you for making us laugh! ❤️

    • @garrysekelli6776
      @garrysekelli6776 Рік тому +16

      The funniest joke killed all the military saving countless lives.

    • @stephenconway9284
      @stephenconway9284 Рік тому

      It's funny and the Monty Python python movies they have a parody of parody of British soldiers doing doing a marching formation which is definitely gay and a feminine. The general speaking at the beginning and at the end is a gay actor in the money python group I thought group but today you probably couldn't do that because it would be offensive to some. I purposely put that video on social media and remind them that the general at the beginning and at the end, actually a Monty Python actor, was gay and was not offended. ua-cam.com/video/7-2jLLMdEBw/v-deo.html

    • @mugsofmirth8101
      @mugsofmirth8101 Рік тому +8

      Compute the number of years? Are you in the life insurance industry?

    • @pavel0900
      @pavel0900 Рік тому +10

      @@mugsofmirth8101 😂 no, but good one. Not sure people who are in life insurance industry watch comedy lol

    • @55k3v1n
      @55k3v1n Рік тому +5

      This guy is a Fawlty character

  • @velvetbees
    @velvetbees 11 місяців тому +18

    Thank you John. I wrote down many of the things you said to help me as a writer. My favorite is: Creativity is all about getting out of a rut. If you are under any kind of pressure, you will always resort to stereotypical thinking.

    • @bobjary9382
      @bobjary9382 11 місяців тому +2

      I particularly liked his question asking the psychotherapist (?) what percentage of the profession he considered to be doing a good job .....and then extrapolating that to ask other well regarded folk of some influence the same question.
      I have a few people I would like to ask also

    • @geraldfrost4710
      @geraldfrost4710 6 місяців тому +3

      The lack of interruption is crucial too.
      If you go to a Starbucks to write on your laptop, wear an Ask Me About Jesus shirt.
      (As a Christian I can say that.)

  • @Rrrrichy
    @Rrrrichy 7 місяців тому +7

    What an iconic person he is. Imagine what he did to the last century. Certanly one of the best things that could happen to us. Thank you so much Mr John Cleese

  • @jeffersonianideal
    @jeffersonianideal Рік тому +168

    Slay your enemies with humour. While they're obliviously in hysterics, you can do whatever you want to them.

    • @divinecomedian2
      @divinecomedian2 Рік тому

      The woke don't know how to laugh though

    • @jeffersonianideal
      @jeffersonianideal Рік тому +8

      @@divinecomedian2
      True. Apparently, that includes the ownership and administrative staff at UA-cam. YT's imprecise and despotic algorithm shadowbanned your very legitimate comment.

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 Рік тому +5

      Laughing at someone to their face when they want to be taken seriously is the best.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Рік тому

      Oscar Wilde had a quote on this.

    • @jeffersonianideal
      @jeffersonianideal Рік тому +7

      @@User-54631
      It also pisses them off in the most delightful way.

  • @MichaelYoder1961
    @MichaelYoder1961 Рік тому +248

    John Cleese is a brilliant and articulate man and a gift (along with all the Pythoners). They broke ground and continue to be "discovered" by new generations

    • @wrbowcalifyrobertson5087
      @wrbowcalifyrobertson5087 Рік тому +7

      Very intelligent man.

    • @DJWESG1
      @DJWESG1 Рік тому +5

      There is probably a good reason he made the types of films he made compared to the sort of films Terry Gillingham made.
      One would have thought the latter was more on point.

    • @brianjob3018
      @brianjob3018 Рік тому

      @@DJWESG1 Terry Gillingham?? It's Gilliam, friends.

    • @panvomacka9079
      @panvomacka9079 Рік тому

      @@brianjob3018 I think it's Gillinger

    • @brianjob3018
      @brianjob3018 Рік тому

      @@panvomacka9079 Well, if you show he's connected to Jobn Dillinger somehow, I might have a go with that! But I'm sure someone from the ol' Monty set could do it better than I!! 😜, 😇.

  • @Marvidsen1973
    @Marvidsen1973 10 місяців тому +10

    Sharp as a knife - and still with perfect timing. Love what he represents, love the man 🙏🏻

  • @alexandrialeonora6542
    @alexandrialeonora6542 9 місяців тому +3

    On the stifling of creativity in the education system: when we were about 9 or 10 years old, my sister and I wrote a fantasy play that we wanted to perform at our elementary school. We were denied by the principal because 1.) our fantasy play contained swords (a la King Arthur) and 2.) it had a song with a talking frog, and that was offensive to the principal because “frogs can’t talk”. This was at an elementary school! Even as a small child, I remember thinking that was an insane excuse not to allow us to perform a play! Stifling of creativity for sure.

  • @christinelang2417
    @christinelang2417 Рік тому +343

    I remember when JC was talking about his mother,who was in a nursing home, and she was very depressed. She was wanting to die. So John says,what about next Thursday? And this made her laugh.

    • @wolfgangdevries127
      @wolfgangdevries127 Рік тому +4

      I remember he did ads for the bankers. To get kids a bank account.

    • @charlesmichaelschmitt6412
      @charlesmichaelschmitt6412 Рік тому +3

      @@wolfgangdevries127 this man does not draw the line in sand! he shows all the lines as Zebra Stripes i.e. Cross walk! no! Ich bin ami aber Zeit 2000 in Deutscland geblieben.

    • @wolfgangdevries127
      @wolfgangdevries127 Рік тому +1

      @@charlesmichaelschmitt6412 well, at least it shove him $20M. Which must be peanuts in his world.

    • @charlesmichaelschmitt6412
      @charlesmichaelschmitt6412 Рік тому +7

      @@wolfgangdevries127 silly walks gave him the license to walk all over the issues of boundaries.

    • @thebirdee55
      @thebirdee55 Рік тому +34

      I love that. My family has the same dark sense of humor. My parents would often talk about things like what we each wanted of theirs when they die. During one of these conversations, my brother grabbed a pad of sticky notes, wrote his name on them and started sticking them to things in the living room. We all started doing the same thing, arguing and removing each others' sticky notes to replace them with ours... It's one of my fondest memories.
      If you're up for reading another... My mom was in the hospital and started talking about wanting to leave and die and such, but she can't get out of the hospital because she's hooked up to the IV line. My sister pulled out her pocket knife and said, "Just give me the word and we're out of here." Mom made a face and then laughed.
      Using humor to deal with uncomfortable situations is in my blood. lol

  • @eekiane1921
    @eekiane1921 Рік тому +95

    "Do you regret not becoming a lawyer?"
    The laughter was priceless

    • @mitchellhawkes22
      @mitchellhawkes22 Рік тому

      The best lawyers don't laugh. They make their millions and don't respond to taunts like the insipid Cleese remark.

    • @kevanbodsworth9868
      @kevanbodsworth9868 Рік тому +2

      @@mitchellhawkes22 You mean dead.

    • @yosserc
      @yosserc Рік тому +2

      His laughter was snobbish and elitist. "Imagine being like any other person" ....horrid.

    • @markoshea6833
      @markoshea6833 Рік тому

      Morrissey is humorous.

  • @Lurker-dk8jk
    @Lurker-dk8jk 10 місяців тому +11

    A spectacular and thought-provoking interview with one of the most brilliant people of our time. Intelligent comedy is the best comedy, and there are few alive that can reach that level as often and as consistently as John Cleese has in his career. Thanks for posting this.

  • @AnniesHours
    @AnniesHours 7 місяців тому +4

    I grew up watching this guy, and boy, has he really hit the nail on the head! I love that he's open and not afraid to express his opinion ♥

  • @roddmatsui3554
    @roddmatsui3554 Рік тому +91

    I’m very impressed by John Cleese and his work, I’ve enjoyed Monty Python since the 1970s, and all of the Python crew have shown a deep understanding of humor being a stimulant of thought.

    • @helen9289
      @helen9289 Рік тому

      their humour still works today

  • @Kevin-jb2pv
    @Kevin-jb2pv Рік тому +218

    I think it's always a good sign when you can make John Cleese burst out laughing with your first question.

  • @mariadegan1029
    @mariadegan1029 Рік тому +46

    Love John Cleese, he is so open to the Universal Consciousness!! His energy is perfect and nothing is better than Laughter!! SO RIGHT 😂

  • @ol2rap
    @ol2rap 11 місяців тому +33

    "There are people sitting there who ever deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended." Very well said!!

  • @carolynzaremba5469
    @carolynzaremba5469 Рік тому +106

    The Pythons will always be legends for me. From the very first time they appeared on PBS in the early 1970s, through all of their films, champions of outrageous, literate, goofy, silliness that made me laugh until my ribs hurt. Thank you!

    • @robinhood6954
      @robinhood6954 11 місяців тому +4

      You forgot to mention the SYMBOLISM! Everything else was just the surface plot.

    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 11 місяців тому +1

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      ... Rather than, ahead for what's coming at us - like loaded Freight Trains.
      The option is to - at least - give this an honest attempt.
      I figure, the numbers are in our favor!
      In fact, in the world of "civil-defense", our Gov version -"Civil Defense" / DES - Disaster and Emergency Services - while including NGOs like ARC, S&R, etc., are only - at best - 3 to 5 percent of the total population, which includes all Department Heads, and their Staff, hiding in cozy Blast-Proof / Fallout Safe Bunkers... Far behind a Police Lines... With folks wondering - who is that person, behind that Badge number... Who was kind, and a professional...???... Or, who was having fun, using power of Gov position, for being a bully, ..???...
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      Why do I feel like a Squeeky-Toy...?

    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 11 місяців тому +1

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    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 11 місяців тому +1

      Note: "hostage population"... Versus..."active and passive civil defense are integral to national security [democratic] posture." To mechanize and empower pure/direct demos-kratia within a republic.

    • @johnheigis83
      @johnheigis83 11 місяців тому +2

      Love... Living the art of kindness.......!...??.. Love is God..?.. When kindness is happening..?.. When, we make any Princess of Peace... Smile..!..?

  • @paulelverstone8677
    @paulelverstone8677 Рік тому +423

    I think that it is clear to everyone that John Cleese still has a lot to offer the world. Despite advancing age; he remains enlightening and sharp. Feel lucky to have grown up within his era...

    • @markfox7764
      @markfox7764 Рік тому +3

      Yeah! What Paul said.

    • @ildart8738
      @ildart8738 Рік тому +12

      There is a psychological hypothesis that if a person is needed by society, he/she will live longer than someone who lives only for his own needs. John Cleese is a good example of this.

    • @wideseen
      @wideseen Рік тому

      Nope. He has nothing to offer except extreme woke hate. Like all socialists he now thinks he is funny when all he does is spewing poison.
      I used to love all he did - he killed every memory, every moment, every expectation with his sick hatred of Trump and being associated with the extremist hater Rob Reiner (said to produce Faulty Towers rise-from-the-dead).
      We live in the times where socialists is on the rise again with all the madness, lies, censoring, hate this ideology ever produced. I guess 120+ million murdered by socialism is not enough for some, oh the others just didn't get it quite right, let's try again.

    • @noahbrown4388
      @noahbrown4388 Рік тому +7

      @Ildar T8 Makes sense. We all (or most of us) need to be needed. Hence the crisis of postmodern hyper-individualism. I think I just made that term up, but you get what I mean

    • @susanfairman2051
      @susanfairman2051 Рік тому

      ​@@ildart8738 1¹1¹¹à

  • @Etothe2iPi
    @Etothe2iPi 11 місяців тому +5

    18:01 "There are people...who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended." Priceless!

  • @mitziewheeler8517
    @mitziewheeler8517 11 місяців тому +9

    I am thankful for Mr. Cleese. He and his shows, and movie's helped me get through a really bad childhood. There were times that I thought about just ending things, but I would watch his stuff and laugh so hard it stopped that thought. I think those that are going off on him just don't get it. That is a big problem these days, people have been so kept down that they don't understand context they only know the words. He's right and he has said this on many things people have lost creativity, lost thinking for themselves, they have lost critical thinking skills. People have let others control them especially their minds. People have also lost the ability to understand sarcasm, it's a very said thing. So people stop being a idiot, stop criticizing someone just because they are older, stop criticizing just because his last answer was a bit long. It's time people stopped being jerks and do the one thing that really really scares them to death. Take a deep dive inside yourself and truly look at what scares you, the many things you won't admit to. When someone says laughter is the best medicine, they really are telling the truth. I know the same people that said the idiot things here in comments will be the same people that will jump all over this with their word salad, with out giving anything a real thought. It's so sad that people have become so self centered, cravenly, and egotistical. Many wouldn't know what a good honest laugh was even it came up and bit them on the a$$ .

  • @austinwoodall5423
    @austinwoodall5423 Рік тому +33

    Imagine having told Cleese his writing was bad then watching him grow to become world famous for the very elements of writing you disliked

  • @smileywarhead5178
    @smileywarhead5178 Рік тому +410

    "I'm not so sure the wokes would ever laugh at themselves, no matter how hilarious they are."
    -John Cleese, Legend
    🤣🤣🤣
    (edited because I had lightly paraphrased. Now it's word-for-word)

    • @riverstun
      @riverstun Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/syA5Cg7vL6o/v-deo.html

    • @gydur
      @gydur Рік тому +9

      THAT is the problem in a nutshell!

    • @teresawilliamson9377
      @teresawilliamson9377 Рік тому +1

      Interesting, I see miscreant!

    • @ari3lz3pp
      @ari3lz3pp Рік тому +7

      @@teresawilliamson9377 That's called a reflection. 🙈💩

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart Рік тому +1

      Is this an actual quote of his? Can you show me where it is in the video?

  • @pauluspod
    @pauluspod 9 місяців тому +2

    Monty Python was the best thing that ever happened to comedy 53 years on I still find myself quoting python sketches and still having a chuckle…and you try telling that to the young people of today. They won’t believe you!😮

  • @veroniqueverstichelen7371
    @veroniqueverstichelen7371 11 місяців тому +8

    If you think you are good enough than you're not learning..wonderfully spoken!!🤩

  • @Amalthea16
    @Amalthea16 Рік тому +139

    John Cleese is the best. I admire how much this man is willing to speak the truth and stick to his guns. my favorite comedian and a brilliant philosopher in his own right.

    • @funbigly
      @funbigly Рік тому

      About five years ago he, like many other wise cracks were on Team Woke, fighting the evil conservatives and their supposed kingpin, Orange Man. Most of these donkeys have since had a change of heart. And now here he is at a libertarian convention. Amazing.

  • @brady2528
    @brady2528 Рік тому +316

    The man is still "BRILLIANT". One of the best at illustrating the idiocy of government, bureaucracy, and accepted social norms through comedy.

    • @aussiehillbilly
      @aussiehillbilly Рік тому +11

      he is the KING. life of brian, the discussion of the mans right to have a womb , GOLD JUST GOLD

    • @aussiehillbilly
      @aussiehillbilly Рік тому +8

      40 years ahead of their joke, and what a joke it is

    • @aussiehillbilly
      @aussiehillbilly Рік тому +4

      @norman smithers peoples front of Judea?

    • @dorothyn.7500
      @dorothyn.7500 Рік тому

      @norman smithers I owe you SO many extra likes for that!

    • @dorothyn.7500
      @dorothyn.7500 Рік тому

      @norman smithers Maybe we should lock the 'woke' in a (sound--proofed) roomful of 'Grammar Nazis' and just leave them there... slide pizza under the door now and again, of course. But they'd have a great time self-righteously snarking at each other - and maybe then the rest of the world could just live and let live?

  • @reginalewilliams4472
    @reginalewilliams4472 Рік тому +41

    My husband was a depressed humorist with a sense of irony. No one understood Keith, including me. He died pretty young in the 70s. I miss him more and more now that I have grown.

    • @CloveCoast
      @CloveCoast Рік тому +10

      that’s very big of you to admit that you didn’t know him as well as you do now. Respect

    • @jean_mollycutpurse_winchester
      @jean_mollycutpurse_winchester Рік тому +3

      RIP

    • @farmbrough
      @farmbrough 11 місяців тому +3

      Sorry for your loss. I don't usually associate "humor" with irony, but if he had both, then good for him.

    • @darthmader057mmm6
      @darthmader057mmm6 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@farmbrough irony is a great form of humor

    • @farmbrough
      @farmbrough 11 місяців тому +2

      @@darthmader057mmm6 I would say humour, but there you are.

  • @MorningNapalm
    @MorningNapalm 10 місяців тому +20

    My favourite lawyer joke:
    - Why do they bury lawyers 12 feet down?
    - Because deep down lawyers are good people too.

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 10 місяців тому

      Why are lawyers buried 12 feet deep?

    • @MorningNapalm
      @MorningNapalm 10 місяців тому

      @@richsackett3423 Because deep down lawyers are good people too

  • @gbalfour9618
    @gbalfour9618 Рік тому +66

    Nick: “Can you make politics funny?”
    Me: ‘No it’s already a joke.’
    As a kid I watched what my parents watched on TV and they watched Fawlty Towers, Dr Who, Monty Python. So I thank all the heavy lifting to who I am today to you Mr Cleese.

    • @craigcole9337
      @craigcole9337 Рік тому +2

      And Cleese was in all of them!

    • @gbalfour9618
      @gbalfour9618 Рік тому +2

      Was hoping someone caught that ^_^

    • @janlindtner305
      @janlindtner305 Рік тому +2

      The next time I vote for elections it will be at Circus Benneweis, they call a clown a clown and clean up after them.

    • @MichaelPohoreski
      @MichaelPohoreski Рік тому

      Over in America the MSM (Mainstream Media) is a complete joke while comedians tell the actual news.
      Both Faux News and Clearly Not News have admitted to selling entertainment.

    • @enjoyslearningandtravel7957
      @enjoyslearningandtravel7957 Рік тому +1

      I didn’t know John Cleese was in Doctor Who!?

  • @mymixture965
    @mymixture965 Рік тому +159

    I don´t want to imagine a world without John Cleese, he is just great, I can listen for hours.

    • @ari3lz3pp
      @ari3lz3pp Рік тому +5

      Me either. The fact that he's so aged makes me sad. Then realising he's still so on-point makes me feel we will all miss him that much more!

    • @redawnlivebirds9572
      @redawnlivebirds9572 Рік тому

      hmmm Cleese is a genius ; although i prefer "Life of Brian" / Fawlty towers" as his best work... .... the sad thing is there will be so many watchers of this video who will laugh or agree then CONFIRM to their fear ridden FUBAR loacl & global swamp.... IMPORTANT; discussion & Vision is NOT enough (REPEAT; NOT ENOUGH!) ACTION improves LIVES! their virus is ME d1A POX ... danger to Humanity ChRiSlive "Freedom e Union NGO"; chrislivecampaign.blogspot.com/2022/08/chrislive-now

    • @gen.whakinov7270
      @gen.whakinov7270 Рік тому

      Agreed

    • @TonyEnglandUK
      @TonyEnglandUK Рік тому +1

      Remember, when he passes on, he's not dead, he's resting.

  • @SueOtness
    @SueOtness 11 місяців тому +6

    My brother and I went to see Life of Brian at the theater in Bozeman, Montana when we were in college. We couldn't stop laughing. Most people in the audience had no idea what was going on, and that made us laugh even more .

  • @Don-James
    @Don-James 10 місяців тому +6

    John Cleese -
    easily on the list of most awesome humans.

  • @getstarted7168
    @getstarted7168 Рік тому +56

    18:00 John Cleese says that there are people out there "deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended". Omg, this was so spot-on! Love it!

  • @LizzyC
    @LizzyC Рік тому +45

    "I'm not so sure the wokes would ever laugh at themselves, no matter how hilarious they are." 🤣

    • @donaldbird1005
      @donaldbird1005 Рік тому +2

      Do you mean like the Marmalade Mussolini?

    • @kellyfrench
      @kellyfrench Рік тому +1

      Woke: a term used by those who are used to using virtue signaling to maintain their position in society who are now annoyed that virtue signaling is being used against them.

  • @RayWright
    @RayWright Рік тому +6

    Cleese is brilliant! His wise age is something to be admired!

  • @user-yu9lr7wb6z
    @user-yu9lr7wb6z 4 місяці тому +2

    One of my favorite people ever, along with the rest of the Pythons! So many hours of non-stop laughter came from those guys, especially in a movie theater where *everyone* was cracking up from start to finish, were the best therapy ever no matter what else was happening in the world!

  • @crypticTV
    @crypticTV Рік тому +96

    18:05 thrill of being offended
    20:22 American ex
    24:00 woke self humor
    24:33 Bosnian war
    25:33 People in charge know nothing and don't know they don't know anything
    26:30 Dunning Kruger effect
    27:45 Dismal sciense
    29:49 without noticing any of it
    31:00 NY Jewish and Christian backlash
    31:48 agree after 500 years
    32:11 Punishment for seeing
    33:05 Humor but serious vs solemn - project ruggedness to the exclusion of everything else

    • @-M0LE
      @-M0LE Рік тому +1

      Science

    • @DVincentW
      @DVincentW Рік тому +6

      Cryptic, Thanks the chapter time stamps. Best regards.

    • @Alsatiagent
      @Alsatiagent Рік тому

      @@-M0LE Medication

    • @alumpyhorse
      @alumpyhorse Рік тому +1

      thanks!
      Dunning Kruger 👏

  • @stlouisarch2162
    @stlouisarch2162 Рік тому +126

    Mr Cleese has inspired me in tow stages of life. In my younger years, he made me laugh. That is a special gift. In recent years, he has fought for Freedom of Speech and Thought. Many thanks to the man for both.

    • @TheJacklwilliams
      @TheJacklwilliams Рік тому +7

      Same here, hometown homey! Got my doors blown off by him and the Monty Python crew, early eighties. Huge fan and no one has ever compared. John and the entire crew, always managed to bring my humor into play, release the stress, and remind me this is all quite ridiculous. Brilliant, conscientious, amazing human being.

    • @bootstrapperwilson7687
      @bootstrapperwilson7687 Рік тому +4

      What is a tow stage?

    • @stlouisarch2162
      @stlouisarch2162 Рік тому +3

      @@bootstrapperwilson7687 *two*

    • @mrpostnorts5259
      @mrpostnorts5259 Рік тому

      Meanwhile Eric Idle is a completely deranged Leftist living in Hollywood with massive TDS.

    • @mjt1517
      @mjt1517 Рік тому +2

      @@stlouisarch2162 toe*

  • @v.a.993
    @v.a.993 11 місяців тому +6

    I have watched the Fawlty Towers series for nearly 40 years. My local PBS station used to show it. Now I watch it on UA-cam. I have seen each episode hundreds of times. Fawlty Towers STILL makes me laugh. I love John Cleese for Fawlty Towers.

    • @track1219
      @track1219 10 місяців тому

      About 30 years ago I watched an episode of that; some guy was talking about climbing a well known mountain and was gesturing wildly and almost knocking little figurines off the mantle of a fireplace. I laughed so hard I almost choked! I wish my mom was there, she loved that show!

  • @equaliser2265
    @equaliser2265 Рік тому +411

    Well done John, words of sanity in an insane world.

    • @gregorybyrne2453
      @gregorybyrne2453 Рік тому

      Sodom and Gomorrah is being created on purpose because we are in the climate change END TIMES not due to you or CO2 but rather due to the precession of the Alpha Omega equinoxes when our solar system eclipses the centre of our galaxies electromagnetic gravitational plane for a thousand years.

    • @josiplilic3384
      @josiplilic3384 Рік тому +6

      Still the funniest man in my book!(With all due reaspect to Larry David,Trey Parker & (6 - 7 stand up comics,dead or alive😂😂😂)!

    • @AtmosphericAtmosphere
      @AtmosphericAtmosphere Рік тому

      Whole world is not Insane just the part you falsely called democracy or i should say west world

    • @NuntiusLegis
      @NuntiusLegis Рік тому +6

      Great man, but the title of the video picked the one thing he got wrong. If someone thinks creativity is impossible without discrimination, my god, must that person be creative.
      And he said himself pitiful people are afraid of change. "Warriors on wokeism" are utterly full of that, afraid they need to stop dreadfully stupid but habituated prejudice and discrimination.

    • @josiplilic3384
      @josiplilic3384 Рік тому +2

      @@NuntiusLegis I agree,but even the fact that we have to censor our words just to write "something down the line" is a standard now! I think my comedy heros would've been banned,with exception of South Park(cuz they are trashing everyone,but in cartoon characters)! Imagine film like Monthy Python's Meaning Of Life or Carlin's Jammin In New York!? Who would air that if it was new material???

  • @jl696
    @jl696 Рік тому +232

    John Cleese has brought a lot of laugher to this world and for that he deserves our everlasting gratitude.

    • @jammin1881
      @jammin1881 Рік тому +3

      Are you the people front of Judea?? Lmao

    • @theboombody
      @theboombody Рік тому +2

      But he doesn't deserve the Upper Class Twit of the Year award.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Рік тому +1

      @@jammin1881 No, we're the Judean Peoples Front.

    • @jammin1881
      @jammin1881 Рік тому

      @@kiwitrainguy
      Lmao 🤣
      Its the right of every man.......
      Or woman.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Рік тому +1

      @@jammin1881 "Please, guys, we should be fighting together"
      "We are !!"

  • @306champion
    @306champion 3 місяці тому +1

    Always a pleasure to hear John Cleese. Just remember,, any day without a laugh is a day wasted.

  • @swyntopia
    @swyntopia 11 місяців тому +2

    "...it´s only a question of balance..."
    That´s so absolutely right !
    So obviously !
    Why most people don´t see that ???

  • @ianp2716
    @ianp2716 Рік тому +54

    One of the great gifts I gave my kids was an appreciation of this man's comedy. His mastery of astute comedy is his legend.

  • @NHQuiltah
    @NHQuiltah Рік тому +195

    "There are people literally out there waiting for the thrill of being offended". That is the perfect explanation!

    • @christopherheckman7957
      @christopherheckman7957 Рік тому +7

      And they're all over the political spectrum. I remember a story from a few years ago where a guy was offended, because he saw a Spanish word on a menu.
      In a Taco Bell restaurant.
      In a city with a Spanish name. (I don't recall exactly which one.)

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 Рік тому

      Says the continuously triggered right wing extremist ;) When you're done projecting, you're welcome to learn how to become less of an idiot.

    • @anonleft
      @anonleft Рік тому

      Except it has nothing to do with what the right is trying to silence as "wokeism"

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart Рік тому

      @@christopherheckman7957 yeah, I think this video is more about that, then the whole woke thing. Sounds like Reich wingers attempting to attack the left again.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 Рік тому

      No way. Is that a true story?

  • @johnricercato740
    @johnricercato740 10 місяців тому +6

    A few people are questioning the use of ‘woke’ by Cleese, declaring that all it means is ‘concerned with social justice’. Yes, but there is another meaning which goes something like this: ‘Used pejoratively and ironically to describe a self-appointed moral arbiter who regards their definition of social justice as sacrosanct, imposes it on other people, and viciously attacks anyone who dissents’.

    • @MorningNapalm
      @MorningNapalm 10 місяців тому +2

      My point of view:
      - If I say something that offends you, and what I said is illegal, it is my problem.
      - If it is not illegal, it is your problem.

    • @johnricercato740
      @johnricercato740 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MorningNapalm Well put, thanks.

    • @anderxale1
      @anderxale1 7 місяців тому

      ​@@MorningNapalmCalling someone an N-word isn't illegal... if you said that it would be your problem (or you are the problem). Legal isn't the only arbitor of correctness. Your point of view is incorrect

    • @MorningNapalm
      @MorningNapalm 7 місяців тому

      The legality of racial slurs is highly specific to the country you are in. Racism is generally illegal, and if you start slurring various people based on race, you will find yourself booked quite quickly. In summary, no, my point of view is not wrong, yours is. @@anderxale1

    • @Salam_Damai431
      @Salam_Damai431 7 місяців тому +1

      Yes. I agree. They are ignoring what linguistics calls semantic change. Every word has a variety of senses and connotations, which can be added, removed, or altered across space and time.

  • @consonaadversapars
    @consonaadversapars 11 місяців тому +4

    Such a brilliant man. Thank you! Wish people like him could stay with us forever.

  • @djjccc1589
    @djjccc1589 Рік тому +164

    “There are people literally waiting for the thrill of being offended”… love it

    • @marshaevelyn1
      @marshaevelyn1 Рік тому

      Most people who look for offence are usually the dimwitted.

    • @brianmorris8045
      @brianmorris8045 Рік тому +1

      But when they are offended, they waste it in a safe space. Let us enjoy their moment of being offended.

    • @theglowcloud2215
      @theglowcloud2215 Рік тому

      lol libertarians

  • @three2267
    @three2267 Рік тому +164

    Ten years ago my college age kids & friends came over, a mix of every stripe. We had some drinks & played "Throw your best off color joke." Nobody was off limits. The next morning we could hardly move because our jaws & ribs hurt from laughing so hard. Nobody got thier feelers hurt. We are all still close today and when we get together talk about how hilarious that night was.

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer Рік тому

      Looking back at the night, though, what remained off limits even if technically nothing was?
      Some of it is managed subconsciously and you wouldn’t even know you were censoring yourself.
      Orwell and his ideas on thoughtcrime where the goal of the party’s indoctrination was to make it impossible to even think of resistance is a very real problem.
      The huge backlash against even discussing what it means to be “male” deals with a lot of that subconscious censorship.

    • @three2267
      @three2267 Рік тому +2

      @@Justanotherconsumer I do remember the kids intentionally not using the Fbomb or being too sexually explicit because it was mixed company and of course Moms were there. But EVERYBODY brought their A game with the racial & "guy" slings & arrows. Even the hokey Dad jokes & Yo Mama jokes were hysterical 3 cocktails in. 😂😂😂

    • @georgemorley1029
      @georgemorley1029 Рік тому +12

      Here’s a gentle enough one to to start off with then. A man rings up work and says he can’t come in to work today because he’s sick. The boss asks him “Really? Well, how sick are you?” The man says “I’m in bed with my sister”.

    • @three2267
      @three2267 Рік тому +1

      @@georgemorley1029 🤣🤣🤣

    • @choosecarefully408
      @choosecarefully408 Рік тому +4

      @@georgemorley1029 Is it too soon to escalate to the joke where the punch line is "Pedophile? That's a fairly big word for someone who's only ten years old, don't you think?"

  • @wmmseo
    @wmmseo 11 місяців тому +2

    “deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended.” wow!, that sums the up whole affair quite nicely

  • @jivanvasant
    @jivanvasant Рік тому +7

    John Cleese > "Creativity is taking the neural pathway less traveled." On of several examples of his creative thinking live in real time during this short film.

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw Рік тому +224

    John Cleese is an international treasure.
    Such a clear and relevant thinker.

    • @sabbracadabra8367
      @sabbracadabra8367 Рік тому +2

      He is like a different species to what roams the Earth now.

    • @TheEvertw
      @TheEvertw Рік тому

      This comment didn't age very well...

    • @sabbracadabra8367
      @sabbracadabra8367 Рік тому +2

      Why what's he said now?

    • @Mattened
      @Mattened Рік тому +1

      @@TheEvertw Oh no, did he say something you didn't like about The Current Thing?

    • @spiffenage1
      @spiffenage1 Рік тому +1

      Shane he has reneged on the causes he once championed.

  • @republicoftexas3261
    @republicoftexas3261 Рік тому +85

    He gave us so many laughs now he's taking up the fight against an actual growing darkness in civilization. Man I love him.

    • @MartijnHover
      @MartijnHover Рік тому

      The true "darkness" are the people who have turned "woke" into a swear word, I think. Those are the people who want to see women back in the kitchen, who want to return to persecuting gay people or people of a different ehtnicity than theirs, which is almost without exception of the pink-skinned persuasion. And John Cleese has of course stopped being all that funny decades ago.

  • @eugenestandingbear6516
    @eugenestandingbear6516 Рік тому +2

    Absolutely lovely . Perfect pitch. So enjoyable. Thank you.

  • @juliaogara8794
    @juliaogara8794 11 місяців тому +1

    Refreshing. Thank you. Hits on so many truths whether his style of humour is yours or not.

  • @djBlue999
    @djBlue999 Рік тому +119

    He's not declaring war. He's simply stating his opinion in an interview. Love him! Legend! Ps. Knock off the sensationalism🤘🏻💙💚

    • @travissharon1536
      @travissharon1536 Рік тому

      Amen to that! When we look at civil discourse as war, we are playing the game of the leftist, and sensationalist media!

    • @JLeppert
      @JLeppert Рік тому

      Yeah, they can't. They've lost objective rationality. They've had hard establishment goons on just like everyone else.

    • @wmason1961
      @wmason1961 Рік тому +16

      Stating a differing opinion is declaring war to a wokist.

    • @travissharon1536
      @travissharon1536 Рік тому +7

      @@wmason1961 It is disagreeing... Just because they think thoughts and words are war doesn't mean we need to follow them into delusion.

    • @wmason1961
      @wmason1961 Рік тому

      @@travissharon1536 it is a war. If we decide not to fight it fine. Just don't expect to win. Wokism will destroy the world of we decide to sit out the war and not fight.

  • @athenassigil5820
    @athenassigil5820 Рік тому +34

    Bloody brilliant! Glad he attended and that you guys at Reason interviewed him. Cheers!

  • @OneAmericanWriter
    @OneAmericanWriter Рік тому

    Thank you for doing that. We love you Mr. Cleese! We used to use very very short clips of faulty towers in our customer service course. Thank you for not minding.

  • @semacomer
    @semacomer 5 місяців тому +2

    Hero of my childhood, hours of laughing and thousands of social insights thanks to him

  • @shivam.maharshi
    @shivam.maharshi Рік тому +89

    I always say this. Good comedians are one of the smartest people in the world. Definitely in the show business. They observe daily subtleties and complex issues of life and add a humorous flair to it. It is not an easy thing to do without sounding like you’re ranting about it. George Carlin, Leslie Neilson, John Cleese, etc all extremely smart people.

    • @TheLindadb
      @TheLindadb Рік тому +6

      Which is why censoring them is such a crime.

    • @paulgrieve7031
      @paulgrieve7031 Рік тому +2

      They all rant and bore everyone. They go on and on. Cleese was funny; Carlin never was.

    • @paulgrieve7031
      @paulgrieve7031 Рік тому +2

      One is not they.

    • @helen9289
      @helen9289 Рік тому +3

      most of them just say out loud things we think ourselves or poke fun at the sacred cows we set up to show us how silly they really are & how meaningless in the grand scheme of everything

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 11 місяців тому +3

      And if they're REALLY talented, they'll get you to accept their POV as your own. "It's funny because it's true!" That's why Gutfeld! gets ratings.

  • @roxee57
    @roxee57 Рік тому +51

    A dying breed. Really smart & really funny. We either don’t make them like him anymore, or the suits aren’t letting us know they exist.

    • @francishatton6683
      @francishatton6683 Рік тому +1

      No my friend. It's just that his parents stopped having kids .......

    • @Ballinalower
      @Ballinalower Рік тому +3

      You got it right in the last line.

    • @ssp4795
      @ssp4795 Рік тому +2

      a lot of the old, great British comedians met in university, they were all very talented and very smart, a marvellous combo.

  • @michaelridge4082
    @michaelridge4082 11 місяців тому +2

    John, at however old you are, you are a breath of fresh air. I have always had a fairly good brain but at times my credibility has wrongly suffered somewhat from using humour to make a point. Thanks , thank you.

  • @milliewoo337
    @milliewoo337 6 місяців тому +1

    Didn’t discover this man til this year. Wow, I love him

  • @eldergeektromeo9868
    @eldergeektromeo9868 Рік тому +98

    Thank You, John Cleese, for the lifetime you have given us filled with humor and laughs! Your jokes will always live rent free in my brain until I can pass them to another appreciative human, where they will continue to enrich someone elses life!

    • @d283jdsk2
      @d283jdsk2 Рік тому

      There's no need to write a eulogy yet

  • @kbr7171
    @kbr7171 Рік тому +46

    "There are people...waiting for the thrill of being offended."

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer Рік тому +2

      But not all of them.
      Some of them are sick and tired of it.

    • @darlalathan6143
      @darlalathan6143 Рік тому

      He doesn't know how being offended works. It's like everybody hates you and calls you bad names in the 4th grade or Catholic school gym class!

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz Рік тому

      Ricky Gervais' account on these people being 'professional offendees' was also spot on.

  • @Grunchy005
    @Grunchy005 11 місяців тому +2

    Cleese says in his 2014 memoir that his earliest inspiration was 1950’s “The Goon Show” on radio. Which had Spike Milligan who named himself after America’s Spike Jonez. We’ve also had Looney Tunes since the 1930s.
    The first British comedy show I ever saw was The Goodies (all Python contemporaries), the second British comedy show I ever saw was Benny Hill!
    Monty Python were very good surrealists but nobody was funnier than SCTV (Monty Python was already canceled before SCTV even started). They were all good fun shows!

  • @sanjoydas007
    @sanjoydas007 10 місяців тому +4

    He is so correct about this menace of wokism

  • @dandare1001
    @dandare1001 Рік тому +160

    Isn't all cocaine for the brain?
    Lovely to see John Cleese. He's a very clever, humourous, and decent man. He's still very sharp at his age.
    May he live another 80 years. One of the best things to come out of Britain.

    • @kellyandjulieelander5523
      @kellyandjulieelander5523 Рік тому +4

      I thought the same thing about cocaine for the brain. 😂

    • @petestanton1945
      @petestanton1945 Рік тому +2

      Ya that was awkward, soon after almost quashing the lawyer joke.

    • @williammccarthy5248
      @williammccarthy5248 Рік тому

      John was very gracious to this unfunny boob of an interviewer.

    • @reignman30
      @reignman30 Рік тому +3

      For most people probably, but for me personally, I just like the smell of it ;)

    • @thebirdee55
      @thebirdee55 Рік тому +2

      LMAO - I said the same exact thing when he said that line.

  • @Zonker66
    @Zonker66 Рік тому +449

    My life has been tragic and laughter is the only thing that's kept me sane. Thank you for making me laugh, John.

    • @VVizeman
      @VVizeman Рік тому +12

      Tragedy and comedy are two sides of the same coin. You choose

    • @douglasfreeman3229
      @douglasfreeman3229 Рік тому +6

      Same here. Monty Python certainly helped me when I went through bad times. Music also helped, but comedy can be very therapeutic.

    • @tphilbin1
      @tphilbin1 Рік тому +5

      I recommend the fast show if you haven't already seen it, old bugger is a good character

    • @Zonker66
      @Zonker66 Рік тому +1

      @@tphilbin1 Scorchio... yah, comedy is important to me.

    • @tphilbin1
      @tphilbin1 Рік тому

      @@Zonker66 hahayeah

  • @iggy9790
    @iggy9790 11 місяців тому +3

    John Cleese's story about the essay he wrote spoke to me the most in this video - and really emphasizes the point he makes about creativity being stifled to the point that basic conversation cannot happen.
    I wrote an Essay once about how a book they made us read was "good - for the timeframe it was written and about - but distracting from the current state of the issue." A perfectly reasonable and socially concerned take on the subject matter if not only for discussing it. More importantly, the teacher's actual and only job is to grade how well I followed Essay form - which I did - not grade the subject of my essay. I got a 0 for the Essay and a warning... because it was my teachers favourite book and hearing it not be praised as profoundly awakening was so offensive to them.

  • @jamesfalato4305
    @jamesfalato4305 11 місяців тому +2

    Growing-Up in Paterson, NJ in the 1950s-1960s, School was where We learned Reading, Writing, 'Rithmec, US History and US Geography... Elementary School was K-8th Grade, and by 8th Grade We had Basic Knowledge...
    Today, Basic Knowledge has been Abandoned...

  • @OCMOOO
    @OCMOOO Рік тому +27

    "I don't make jokes I just point them out"
    - A great man!

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Рік тому

      Sounds like he wants to play an evil supervillain.