John Cleese: "Political correctness is largely a misunderstanding"

• Anniversary John Cleese believes that today no one would produce a movie like "The Life of Brian"

Everyone is free to remember

like. As the clumsy, snooty, insane lawyer in A Fish Named Wanda, as Q's assistant at an especially contentious moment in the Bond saga, as the most extravagantly carpeted hotel manager ever seen on TV in

as God only knows. who in The Life of Brian, or, much better, as the unforgettable minister of silly walks

). But there is no way to remember it without a laugh. Spontaneous, happy and completely absurd.

Soon, on December 3, the cinema recovers intact the most

of the not-so-British

in a new character to remember. His role in the family comedy Clifford, the big red dog, according to Norman Bridwell's book About With the Virtue of Being Different (Besides Red and Giant), is that of a magician who, in truth, can only be John Cleese. . “It's funny that I've always had a good hand at making children laugh. A kid will not accept a joke that involves a social or political comment, but he reacts instinctively to the purest emotion, "he says, takes a second and continues:" I remember that

that it was a very adult comedy, who really liked it was the little ones because the series made fun of those who tried to impress others with their stupid things. It was basically very simple.

Despite this, despite his claim to simplicity, not just simplicity, Cleese cannot help but remember the bitter moment of seeing how precisely a chapter of the mythical

came to be censored in 2020 by the BBC. The network considered him racist. Then he replaced it again with a note in which he declined all responsibility for what was seen there. «Sure, the responsibility was mine and of the sense of humor. I do not dispute that they acted with good intention, "he recalls," but it is clear that they have not understood anything. And that is serious. A good part of the jokes that have always been made have to do with imperfections because basically the human being is an imperfect being. I honestly think that

For Cleese the sense of humor is basically a matter of context. To understand that literalism never exists as such. That the literal is born from a circumstance that makes nothing literal. "Not even death," he points out. «The problem is to see what happens to us without perspective. That limits us. I understand the need to be kind to others, but not to the point of treating others the way no one wants to be treated. I mean, as a fool.

In his speech, the actor who has maintained perhaps the most sustained career of his Monty Python companions after Monty Python is finished does not hide an undisguised melancholy. 'I was lucky enough to work in television in the 1960s and' 70s in England when BBC programs were protected from market forces and producers operated without a sense of fear. Now, with a bigger market, everything is grosser.

In fact, I think if you were to talk to people who work for, for example, Rupert Murdoch about quality, they wouldn't know what you're talking about. They know about audience,

, but

We have lost something and the challenge is to get it back ».

Indeed, the important thing is to remember, to remember a John Cleese that never ends.

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