John Cleese will no longer perform at university campuses over political correctness

BigJackC · 06-02-2016 08:57AM #1

John Cleese said he will no longer perform or give talks at university campuses because political correctness has taken over.

The Monty Python star revealed that he has been advised not to perform to students as the fear of offending has expanded so far that any kind of criticism is now seen as "cruel".

Mr Cleese said it is down to people who cannot control their emotions, so seek to control others, and worries that it could lead to a society like that in the iconic dystopian Orwell Novel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12136295/Monty-Python-star-John-Cleese-will-no-longer-perform-at-university-campuses-as-political-correctness-kills-comedy.html

Political correctness shouldn't even exist in comedy. Comedy is a very important part of our civilization and it must be free from political correctness or it loses a lot of its purpose.

It's pretty simple, if you don't want to hear what a comedian says, then don't go to their show and realise that the world doesn't revolve around you.

strelok · 06-02-2016 09:00AM

BigJackC wrote: »

It's pretty simple, if you don't want to hear what a comedian says, then don't go to their show and realise that the world doesn't revolve around you.

that's exactly what someone with white/male/cis/neurotypical privilege would say

Dirty Dingus McGee · 06-02-2016 09:00AM

Didn't Jerry Seinfeld do the same thing last year.

06-02-2016 09:03AM

I don't think Cleese offended anyone apart from people with a good sense of humour. Some of his film choices were just excruciating.

I think he might be using this to cloak the reality, no one wants to go because he has been irrelevant and unfunny for over 30 years now, not because he might cause offence.

Tigger · 06-02-2016 09:04AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Didn't Jerry Seinfeld do the same thing last year.

No it was Kramer

Oranage2 · 06-02-2016 09:08AM

Places like colleges should be PC, the college could most likely subsidize a lot of the comedians fee. His own private show and venue then he should be able to say what he wants.

Tell me how · 06-02-2016 09:10AM

strelok wrote:

that's exactly what someone with white/male/cis/neurotypical privilege would say

That's exactly the type of thing another stereotype would say...

Buona Fortuna · 06-02-2016 09:14AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think Cleese offended anyone apart from people with a good sense of humour. Some of his film choices were just excruciating.

I think he might be using this to cloak the reality, no one wants to go because he has been irrelevant and unfunny for over 30 years now, not because he might cause offence.

Yep. He's been dining out on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers for 30 odd years.

Time for the pipe and slippers John.

06-02-2016 09:23AM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Yep. He's been dining out on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers for 30 odd years.

Time for the pipe and slippers John.

And most Monty Python stuff has dated very badly. Although it would be crass to overlook its place in comedy. But silly walks, effeminate lumberjacks and dead parrots...even within a decade we were watching them and thinking "we were told this was funny, someone stick the Eddie Murphy video back on".

LDN_Irish · 06-02-2016 09:29AM

I never found the dead parrot sketch funny and stopped watching Fawlty Towers around the same time I stopped watching Chuckle Brothers. I'm surprised that's a popular opinion on this thread because when I've said it out loud people have lost it.

06-02-2016 09:38AM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I never found the dead parrot sketch funny and stopped watching Fawlty Towers around the same time I stopped watching Chuckle Brothers. I'm surprised that's a popular opinion on this thread because when I've said it out loud people have lost it.

I thought MP was mostly unfunny, I can't think of one sketch that made me laugh. Films like the Life of Brian had some good momemts maybe. I thought Fawlty Towers was good but overwrought.

But still much better than that most sacred of comedies, Only Fools and Horses. A guy falls over in a bar...everyone bursts out laughing...it's just lame slapstick, they did it better in silent films 60 years before that..l

suicide_circus · 06-02-2016 09:45AM

Except its not just tired irrelevant old John Cleese that is saying this

And I agree with him, it is about control, but this time the fascist have swapped their jackboots for ironic large framed glasses

Ave Sodalis · 06-02-2016 09:47AM

I'm starting to think that those screaming about PC gone mad are becoming more hysterical than those who get offended by everything. It's all just a phase though and as with all phases, it will pass and there will be something else for people to whinge about.

The Backwards Man · 06-02-2016 10:02AM

sup_dude wrote: »

I'm starting to think that those screaming about PC gone mad are becoming more hysterical than those who get offended by everything. It's all just a phase though and as with all phases, it will pass and there will be something else for people to whinge about.

It was ever thus. Hate filled cnuts throw their toys out of the pram at any obstacles restricting them spewing their bile. The rest of us just get on with our lives.

my friend · 06-02-2016 10:04AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Didn't Jerry Seinfeld do the same thing last year.

Yes, John must be short on material

One eyed Jack · 06-02-2016 10:06AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It was ever thus. Hate filled cnuts throw their toys out of the pram at any obstacles restricting them spewing their bile. The rest of us just get on with our lives.

As John Cleese himself observed many years ago now -

Why Do We Fall · 06-02-2016 10:15AM

I'll give an opinion for better or worse so I couldn't be described as PC, but everytime I hear a comedian bemoan it, it sounds to me like the cries of someone who's act is no longer up to scratch and cannot adapt.

Boskowski · 06-02-2016 10:15AM

Maybe you guys just don't get it? MP was/is fantastic and so are most of their films. Don't think they have dated badly at all. A lot of it is off the wall, was even more off the wall back then. Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, great stuff. Faulty Towers is a bit, well, English, people being really very nasty to each other and while it had its moments I can't say I liked it too much.

As for the PC gone mad sh1t, well it has but who cares? Like someone else said it will pass. Only concern I have is the people raised in that vain and embracing it will probably walked all over once they leave their 'safe spaces' and find out what a place the real world is. That place with wars, torture, rapes, hunger, disease, humans & animals killed for fun etcpp. Because not talking about it and banning it from our cocoons won't make those things go away. Would be nice if it did, but unfortunaltey it won't.

suicide_circus · 06-02-2016 10:20AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It was ever thus. Hate filled cnuts throw their toys out of the pram at any obstacles restricting them spewing their bile. The rest of us just get on with our lives.

John Cleese - hate filled cünt.

The Backwards Man · 06-02-2016 10:22AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

John Cleese - hate filled cünt.

I don't see John Cheese whining on this thread. What's his username?

Halloween Jack · 06-02-2016 10:22AM

Love Cleese, love Python and fawlty towers, but we all know he'll perform anywhere that will have him the next time he gets divorced and needs a few bob;)

Menas · 06-02-2016 10:23AM

I doubt the students will be moaning about a 76 year old refusing to play their gigs.

suicide_circus · 06-02-2016 10:28AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I don't see John Cheese whining on this thread. What's his username?

Care to name the hate filled cünts on this thread?

Buona Fortuna · 06-02-2016 10:38AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Care to name the hate filled cünts on this thread?

Oh myyyy you seem to have dropped your gauntlet.

suicide_circus · 06-02-2016 10:41AM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Oh myyyy you seem to have dropped your gauntlet.

Are you his man-at-arms? Let the man spoof his own battles

Buona Fortuna · 06-02-2016 10:43AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Are you his man-at-arms? Let the man spoof his own battles

Sorry didn't realise you were having a private thing.

BunkMoreland · 06-02-2016 10:46AM

Boskowski wrote: »

Maybe you guys just don't get it?

What's to get? There's nothing complex about them to "get".

I was told I just don't " get" Mrs Brown's Boys by the same guy that loves Monty Python and Only Fools and Horses.

Comedy for simpletons.

The Backwards Man · 06-02-2016 10:46AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Care to name the hate filled cünts on this thread?

Na, they don't need any extra publicity from me.

SterlingArcher · 06-02-2016 10:51AM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Sorry didn't realise you were having a private thing.

Yes suicide now has a hard on for an argument with backwards. and you were being a c,ockblock.

Tensions and hangovers are running high.

John Cleese needs to get over it. Doesn't he know he will be long dead when it gets totally ridiculous .wheres I will have to put up with a stint in a cell for winking at the opposite sex.

Boskowski · 06-02-2016 11:05AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

John Cleese - hate filled cünt.

While on the other hand your little one liner screams 'lovely nice balanced person here' at me. Bit ironic isn't it?

galljga1 · 06-02-2016 11:09AM

BunkMoreland wrote: »

What's to get? There's nothing complex about them to "get".

I was told I just don't " get" Mrs Brown's Boys by the same guy that loves Monty Python and Only Fools and Horses.

Comedy for simpletons.

Well I for one am delighted to declare that I just don't 'get' Mrs Brown's Boys. It is puerile rubbish.

John Cleese will no longer perform at university campuses over political correctness

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