From John Cleese

[Rubyshoo]

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[Think. Again.]

1. Didn't john cleese become a rightwing weirdo?

[ret5hd]

2. i have never heard that.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. Yeah

He jumped on board the transphobe and "I'm just against cancel culture" train and now has a show on a rightwing British news channel.

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4. man, that really sucks.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. I think Palin is still a good guy

Gilliam is the worst. I don’t know if Idle has made any awful statements either.

[werdna]

6. Cleese does'nt think so -

- from an article in Newsweek:
From a Newseek article:
During his interview with journalist Amol Rajan on Monday, Cleese insisted that GB News is not "right-wing," while also describing himself as an "old-fashioned liberal."
and:
The Fawlty Towers creator explained how his job came about, saying: "I was approached and I didn't know who they were...And then I met one or two of the [GB News] people concerned and had dinner with them, and I liked them very much. And what they said was: 'People say it's the right-wing channel– it's a free speech channel.'"

The Irish times assesses him:
Judging by his public utterances over the past 15 years or so, Cleese seems to have moved incrementally from being a Liberal Democrat–supporting fan of Barack Obama to being a Brexit-supporting opponent of (his words) “so-called political correctness”. He misses the Britain in which he grew up. He doesn’t like the way young people carry on. That all puts him somewhere on the centre-left of the modern Conservative Party.

[zanana1]

7. Admit it. That sketch was hilarious!