John Cleese on Brexit, newspapers and why he's leaving the UK - BBC Newsnight
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"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 😂😂😂
"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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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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 👍😃
“Am I interrupting you “ John Cleese - Absolute Legend :)
"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.
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
They should do a follow up interview right now. It's more than painful how right he was all along
Good on him. Especially for not letting the interviewer patronize him.
No she didn't like it , did she !!! .No she didn't .
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
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.
what a guy ! wish him a long life and all the best !
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.
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. :-(
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!
You've got to love a man that laughs in the face of a stupid question.
"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
“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.
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...
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.
If the interviewer had just led him speaking, he wouldn't have had any reason to laugh about her so arrogantly. A very poor interview for an excessive level of impulse and temperament.
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!!
"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....
As an American, I'm just glad to see that the Brits are going through the EXACT same $hit that we're going through here, currently. Jesus...what in the holy hell is going on in the world...
Absurd populism fuelled by the boomers being the main voting block (i.e. old), they literally are the worst blight of a generation on humanity. Hopefully once they pop their cloggs, Gen X, Y and Z will have enough time to actually reverse the worst impacts of their greed.
People having the absolute wool pulled over their eyes. Bitterness and division planted so elites can have their financial way. Fear, stupidity and flag-waving jingoistic bullshit. Millionaires on £1000s p/h hour convincing people on £15 p/h that people on £8 p/h are having them over.
Murdoch is the word and I'm so sorry, as an Australian, for the harm his corporation has done and continues to do.
@@thedewberry_6399 all the boomers I know vote Labour and Remain. Dumb generalisations do nothing.
@@Alex.1739 spot on.😡
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!
"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!"
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
A beloved and accomplished guest and a sarcastic, simple minded host.
100% truth, what a legend he is
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
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.
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. 🌹🌹
One of the best individuals that island has produced. Hope Cleese lives to be way over a hundred
0:17 "Sorry am I interrupting you?”
That got me lol
He doesn't put up with any nonsence from audiences. He dosen't like anyone in the audience getting up and leaving whilst he's on stage.
Tbh it's actually pretty rude. The only person he should care about is the person interviewing him. Camera crew are allowed to communicate, he isn't entitled to everyone's attention.
aledmorgan92 - 100% agree with you!
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@@gideonbrowne3651 - ok 5/6th - I'll accept that.
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.
This is the greatest interview of all time.
I think so 😊
What great interview responses Mr Cleese shared. We can learn a lot from his clear thinking.
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!
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.
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.
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.
"we have to talk about comedy"
"We already are talking about comedy!" Haha legend John Cleese.
'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...
We left the year it was announced and never looked back. Hats off to OG Cleese for being comfortable addressing the uncomfortable.
8:59 Thank you Mr. Cleese for having the balls to tell it like it is.
That laugh right in her face is amazing.
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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.
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
love John Cleese he is so smart intelligent. A truly funny & talented man.
Well done John Cleese! You are an inspiration.
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.
th-cam.com/video/jF-CkMpQtlY/w-d-xo.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.
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...
Always loved John Cleese.
The long and short of this interview is, an informed and intelligent person being interviewed by a media sock puppet.
"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
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
I grew up watching Faulty Towers on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii!! My mom is a fan of British programs and I was fortunate enough to enjoy these shows with her.
John Cleese to a cameraman: "-Sorry, am I interrupting you?"🤣😂🤩
"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
I don't make jokes, I just point them out...brilliant.
23% ppppfffHA HA xD
Everything that man said is correct... Well done John 👍
What a Legend. Love him
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.
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.
Priceless.
John Cleese is really a smart person, no doubt is done with that shit.
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 TH-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.
I agree with Mr Cleese. Love the laughter at the mention of a “robust” press!
yessss yesss yes
That was hilarious!!
The way she flips it around and asks where he could possibly go that is so much better is precisely the point - the British Press willfully misses all nuance and will twist a complex situation such that it seems like a controversial and obvious situation
He's so on the Money..I've been carefully watching the uk press coverage of the Depp case (including the BBC news)what's fascinating is that this case isn't nominally political and ought to be a straightforward bit of current affairs coverage.
Now i can read and watch in disbelief the shockingly biased and propagandised articles and coverage in all the papers (I won't use the word news because none of them have printed much of that for a long time)and the television..channel 4,itv and sadly the BBC news itself.
I can watch a trial or event live and without editing or commentary on TH-cam..
Then compare it to your "news piece ".. it's obvious that there's now an agenda and the general public can no longer trust any of you to tell the truth..John Cleese is right
... and the amount of coverage the MSM gave to the FBI vs Sussmann trial was next to zero .
The MSM is a joke .
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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.
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.
Thanks for the compliments from The Netherlands, mr. Cleese.
I'm pretty sure I remember that Cleese was leaving the UK about 20 years before this.
This women is the reason why Cleese is leaving
He needs to vote Wera Hobhouse to stop white males in LibDem
And why I never want to visit the UK, especially London. At least he was able to smuggle out the last gasp of English humor before they killed it. The only place England exists is in reruns.
*EVERY SINGLE TIME*
Emily Maitlis is one of the many reasons I stay - she is wonderful in every way possible
@TheEriczeppe Why do Americans extrapolate their third world country's ways to any other country?. In Europe the Left's base is eminently working class, you ignorant nitwit.
All that ridiculous racial language is not used the way you do it. Being black is not an identity, people divide themselves by nationalities.
There is no "black people" and "white people". If not ask Brexiteers why they would harass poles and other ("white") Europeans to leave Britain and not British descendants from Indians or Jamaicans.
American inbreds talking international politics are hilarious
that was awesome. 5 secs in. he points out the cameraman talking. lol
Typical whiney troll response.
"I don't make jokes, I just point them out"... best line
"and my particular beef is with the newspapers"
an absolute gentleman
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?
Priceless Mr Cleese! Outstanding, not surprised you've had enough! ;) Peace Brother
This is what happens when true intelligence clearly identifies and calls out an objective narrative 👍👍👍 love you John 👍👍 your a legend and will be missed by all who know you 👍👍
Be missed? He's not gone anywhere he's just moved from the UK
I felt exactly how he felt 5 years ago, and so glad that I left just before Brexit and Covid .I saw UK heading down a road to Hell since 2012 when Cameron started saying not to hire foreigners, but train Brits instead for roles... The animosity that was brewing even back then...Glad he opted for the Caribbean from where I hail from
Nevis sounds like a very pleasant place. I admit I'm curious to visit it now.
Lucky! You would have a got a great rate for your pounds.
Oh yes the Caribbean, I’ve been plenty of times where you can’t go for a stroll at night without fear of been robbed or even murdered, lovely place.
@@TheEx3rgj Yeah... Jamaica, for example has the most murders in the world per capita. Despite all the press attention on shootings in the USA, they are not in the top ten of global murder rates.
Typical BBC reporter , being told what to say 😂😂😂
In German there is Word for it
MIETMÄULER
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......
Two of my favourite people there, loved seeing Emily being addressed as Maitlis.
Why even have a guest on if you're going to interrupt every single answer they give?
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.
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
Here here. Totally agree with him.
God she looked utterly terrified when he asked “Can you imagine if Jesus Christ was literal minded”.
This man knows exactly how to deal with these lifeless robots.
"I dont make jokes I just point them out" lmao
This is profound, sort of on par with Michelangelo's statue being inside the stone and the sculptor having to discover it, so sculpting is not a process of creation. Comedians don't make anything, they are just pointing out the funny things in life.
John's ex wives must find it ironic that he keeps getting married.
@@lindah3954 yep - the loudest laugh!
The man's IQ is in the stratosphere.
Trust the press 😂😂😂😂
Look what s happen in France their Tv and press are working for their gvt and against the People.
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!
Why is there a Foot in the background
People mistrust what they see as deceptive. The government's blatant dismissal of the will of the people is a fact and therefore true but that doesn't make it right, does it?
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?
"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.
When a comedian becomes serious you need to pay attention.
I wish every country had a John Cleese. Australia needs one terribly.
Isn't sky news Australia pretty good at pointing out all the crap sco mo was doing?
@@Oliver-jz1en No. They loved him, but they will adore Dutton.