SXSW Invites John Cleese To Panel; Promptly Silences Him

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Literally takes away his microphone.

John F***ing Cleese.

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John Cleese had his microphone taken away at an SXSW comedy event in Austin, TX for having the audacity to joke about reparations according to the Daily Mail.

"[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed," he deadpanned. "We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400."

Cleese asked, "You do know the British have been slaves twice, right?"

[snip]

All of this was part of a 90-minute show called "John Cleese in Conversation," in which he dismissed the idea that the British Empire was somehow the first ever to colonize other nations.

He described human history as "a history of crime," and on that point, he wasn't being funny. "It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful."

[snip]

Nevertheless, panelist Dulc Sloan, allegedly a comic herself, at one point forcibly relieved Cleese of his microphone.

Sloan claims she did it to "save a comic whose career I respect."

Host Dan Pasternack a producer of somewhat comic Hollywood television material accused Sloan of having "saved the colonizer."

Good God, these people are contemptible and I do hate them.

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I love John's early work. I also remember him on many occasions telling people not to have kids or participate in the normalcy of western civilization. He thought he was so smart and wise.

I wonder if he understands his shortcomings now?

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The left can't meme because the left isn't funny.
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Fawlty Towers.
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The left slowly eating their own.
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All of those people silencing Cleese are the mob trying to burn the witches.

Cleese clearly is made of wood and clearly floats. Therefore he is a witch.

Irony.
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I finding the shutting down of comedians, even legendary ones no less, to be scary, really, and foreboding of something more dangerous.
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Did they not know who they invited to take part in a panel. It's not like Cleese has been quiet about his opinions on modern thought
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Hmmm. It said "panelist Dulc Sloan, allegedly a comic herself". Perhaps her "funny" means "peculiar".

Edit to add: Here's her picture.



It does seem peculiar to wrap your head in flowers like that.
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Sad...time to go watch MP's flying circus on VHS I guess! Been a long time since those got dusted off.
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Imagine how they would react to George Carlin. Comedy is different from Epstein since it is not dead yet, but it is being violently strangled.
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Andrew99 said:

Imagine how they would react to George Carlin. Comedy is different from Epstein since it is not dead yet, but it is being violently strangled.
Imagine how she would react to Don Rickles.
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Sharpshooter said:

Fawlty Towers.



That Spanish waiter they had was funny as hell. Could never do that character today.
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The British Navy essentially became what it is because of slavery. The practice of Barbary Pirates raiding English ports to pillage and kidnap men and women to enslave them. Many of the men died in galleys of ships where they rowed until they died. Many of the women were made into *****s. The Brits knew they needed to create a legitimate and permanent Navy that would protect themselves and to fight off the pirates (virtually all of which were North African POC and Muslim).

The British Navy later was primarily responsible for ending the Transatlantic slave trade by using their military might to do so.

Not that you ever really hear about that other than brief mentions such as the movie Amistad.

Slavery has always been and still is a way of life in much of Africa yet you would think it was a European invention.
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I've been wanting to get a tattoo of his profile from the ministry of silly walks for several years now, this may have put me over the edge to do so.
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eric76 said:



It does seem peculiar to wrap your head in flowers like that.
She is appropriating native Hawaiian culture.
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eric76 said:

Andrew99 said:

Imagine how they would react to George Carlin. Comedy is different from Epstein since it is not dead yet, but it is being violently strangled.
Imagine how she would react to Don Rickles.

Or Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's!

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HarleySpoon said:

eric76 said:



It does seem peculiar to wrap your head in flowers like that.
She is appropriating native Hawaiian culture.

Not to mention Half Dome in Yosemite.
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Cleese is spot on. I particularly liked this quote:

"He described human history as "a history of crime"
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Marcus Brutus said:

Cleese is spot on. I particularly liked this quote:

"He described human history as "a history of crime"
About the only way we are going to get kids to learn history is to portray it in TikTok videos.
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Also from the OP

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The worst part of the story? The Austin crowd booed Cleese and cheered Sloan.

This next generation is all in on Marxism and silencing dissidents.

Edit: spelling
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The only victims in all of human history are those the left currently needs to play the role of the Proletariat in their Marxist Revolution Narrative

The only oppressors in all of human history are those the left currently needs to play the role of the Bourgeoisie in their Marxist Revolution Narrative
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The problem is that he is not wrong.

And the fact that is is correct royally ****s up the narrative that whites are evil and that if ur ancestors were oppressed ur owed something.
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Those who are intent on being offended will always find something to offend them.
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He should have walked out...

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The funniest line I recall from MPFC was "if I walked that way, I wouldn't need aftershave". You can guess the context.
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I find it insulting that some no name, fatass actually took a microphone away from a living legend.

Would have been great if he had backhanded her.
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He brought that s#!t on himself. Anytime you agree to participate in SXSW, expect Austin wokeness.
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Burdizzo said:

Sharpshooter said:

Fawlty Towers.



That Spanish waiter they had was funny as hell. Could never do that character today.
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A mob of virtue signaling automatons that wanted their ideological biases and preconceptions confirmed, and instead got them criticized and challenged. They are too mentally unsophisticated and emotionally weak to deal with it. Nearly Useless human beings.
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These are the kind of people we're dealing with:

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Woke Fragility!
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eric76 said:

Hmmm. It said "panelist Dulc Sloan, allegedly a comic herself". Perhaps her "funny" means "peculiar".

Edit to add: Here's her picture.



It does seem peculiar to wrap your head in flowers like that.

Just trying to cover the fat
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eric76 said:

Andrew99 said:

Imagine how they would react to George Carlin. Comedy is different from Epstein since it is not dead yet, but it is being violently strangled.
Imagine how she would react to Don Rickles.
Or to Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinison.
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APHIS AG said:

eric76 said:

Andrew99 said:

Imagine how they would react to George Carlin. Comedy is different from Epstein since it is not dead yet, but it is being violently strangled.
Imagine how she would react to Don Rickles.
Or to Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinison.



Or Richard Pryor. I'd love for him to be around today to tell some of these morons to STFU.
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