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Who cares what a Brexit supporting bigot is doing

• helph67 4y ago
  Some of us!
• jbd28 4y ago
  He made what the UK voted as the best comedy series of all time, that’s who?
• jfengel 4y ago
  A lot of people, obviously, but I didn't like the original Fawlty Towers for a lot of the same reasons I find Cleese unpleasant now. He does a lot of "punching down", and gets ticked off when people object. It's a common "free-speech" trope: "I have the right to speak, but you have no right to reply". I didn't know he supported Brexit, but it doesn't surprise me. It too seems to come from the same attitude that "we" are fundamentally better than "them". Even setting aside the often-not-subtle racist undertones, there was a constant insistence that Britain would dominate the EU in negotiations afterwards. They utterly failed to recognize that the EU just didn't consider the UK as indispensable as they imagined. I really liked Cleese in the Monty Python films (though I find Flying Circus inconsistent at best). He's clearly got a comic gift. But on his own, he often seems mean, and I just don't find that interesting.