Literally takes away his microphone.
John F***ing Cleese.
Good God, these people are contemptible and I do hate them.
Link.
John F***ing Cleese.
Quote:
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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