Not much fun in Stalingrad, no...I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021
impersonation of Hitler
I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does
November 10, 2021
"I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."
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Good for Cleese! A one-finger salute to the woke crowd.
Bruno Ganz won’t be able to work on Mars before this hysteria runs its course.
Can't make fun of Nazi's anymore.
It is too close to the target.
LOL! A great way to show the ridiculous nature of woke. Thank you, John!
Mr. Hilter.
Good of him for making sure there are some consequences for stupidity. Every actor who has ever played Hitler in any production of anything should be blacklisted? Well, then you can try to get your money back on your Cleese tickets.
Ha ha. Cleese brilliantly illustrates the insanity of cancel culture. Well done!
But Trump is literally Hitler and plenty of people impersonate Trump. Should they be blacklisted as well?
"Keir Bradwell, President of Cambridge Union ['is to oversee a blacklist of speakers']: As you can probably tell from the incoherence of my opening remarks tonight, I am quite drunk, so I’m not going to read all of this very long introduction for Andrew Graham-Dixon [black-list], because I sort of can’t."
Andrew Graham-Dixon said:
"Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf: what is it about? It’s about taste, the whole book is about taste, culture struggle through taste. [Begins caricature of Hitler] “My struggle – Adolf Hitler’s struggle – I was a watercolour painter, I was rejected, my German art, my purity, it was rejected, the romantic tradition of German art was rejected by this modern art, this modern horrible art that was promoted by the Jews, which was Cubist, inspired by the art of the Negro, tribal art – yeurgh, how horrible is that. We must expunge this from our Deutschland, we are the pure Aryan people, our genetics must be pure, our art must be pure, our taste must be pure…”
[Back to normal voice] ..."
I thought that was Hilter, not Hitler. He disguised his name after the war.
"Bruno Ganz won’t be able to work on Mars before this hysteria runs its course."
Bruno Ganz died almost three years ago. According to Ray Bradberry, Mars is Heaven, so Ganz may be performing "Hitler Reacts to Durham's Investigation" right now.
I'm more offended by the so-called straight man pretending to be an English housewife.
"Minority Report" comes to mind, except that Cleese is his own Precrime unit... Very efficient.
Bruno Ganz died almost three years ago.
I think you meant "turned into a vampyre", because "cruel is when you can’t die even if you want to."
I'm rather surprised that the Nazi-esque Gaystapo haven't landed on Cleese and the other Pythons for all the "No poofters" Bruce skits.
Floris is somewhat confused. The so-called straight man was pretending to be Joachim von Ribbentrop.
At least satire is not dead.
I thought that was Hilter, not Hitler. He disguised his name after the war.
And there was Henry Bimmler from Cardiff and that very funny Scottish person, Mr. MacGöring, not yet arrived but expected shortly.
30 years after the start of the War, the epic fight against the Nazis still gripped the British imagination. Most British viewers of that episode would immediately recognize who was being portrayed in that scene.
"my German art, my purity, it was rejected, the romantic tradition of German art"
I have a theory that romantic nationalist art has motivated more boys to war than anything this side of communist kitsch. Read Herman Hesse's "Damian" sometime, keeping in mind how the Germans responded to the outcome of WWI.
Don't mention the war : )
The sketch is hilarious. Basically, Hitler is in England and running for Parliment seat in a rural district based on a platform of invading Poland. This was typical MP humor, like putting say Lenin on Contemporary Quiz show, etc.
Later, Cleese would strut and goosestep when Mr. Fawlty was told "Not to talk about the war".
I don't think Cambridge lost anything by having Cleese not speak, as he probably just wanted to gas on about current politics and how terrible ex-POTUS Trump was. Or say stupid shit like "As an athiest...."
Well, I guess we won't be seeing a re-boot of "Hogan's Heroes" anytime soon.
I saw him walking down the street in a fancy London neighborhood once, and then later that evening at a pub. This was 40 years ago...I had friends who lived near him. It was surreal seeing someone like that doing normal things.
And just pre-pandemic he was sitting across from me at a nice restaurant. He would have been almost 80 but looked great...very dashing. His 40-something date was one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in person : )
Quaestor, don't forget Ron Vibbentrop!
Lucien said...Well, I guess we won't be seeing a re-boot of "Hogan's Heroes" anytime soon.
That's one of the ironies I keep coming back to--Hogan's Heroes couldn't be made today. But it was made by people who actually fought and/or suffered under Hitler. The people with first hand experience of Nazi horrors were less intolerant of Nazi imagery than today's woke snowflakes.
Posted a link to Reddit.
Cleese is saying "Cancel culture is why we can't have nice things." Somebody needs to get the message out.
Good for Cleese
This Daily Mail article describes some of the background. Cleese was scheduled to speak about his new documentary on woke culture titled "Cancel Me".
Making fun of Nazis has been a tradition in pop culture. From Jack Benny to Mel Brooks and (the above mentioned) cast of Hogan's Heroes, Nazis make for fine comedy in the right hands. Fittingly enough, those hands turn out to be (more often than not) Jewish.
Maybe that's the problem here. The folks feigning outrage don't have any real cultural stake in the deal. To them, Nazis are just another group they're supposed to hate, instead of the guys who exterminated great grampa.
Dick Shawn's Hitler was pretty good.
I did read "Damian," and a lot of other Hesse. Can't recall squat about that one, though.
It's a weird thing, the Internet. In just one or two clicks I can be at a blog where a very erudite and pious person is making the argument that our current tribulations are divine punishment for . . . wait for it . . . our beastly treatment of the Germans after 1945.
After all, what the Germans were up to was just correcting for the excesses of the Enlightenment.
No, really.
Is "athiest" the superlative for "athi"? Asking for a friend.
30 years after the start of the War, the epic fight against the Nazis still gripped the British imagination. Most British viewers of that episode would immediately recognize who was being portrayed in that scene.
D’ya really think so?
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The guy who played Hitler in Jojo Rabbit is directing a Star Wars movie. Better cancel him quick.
All of Monty Python would fall under the Rage Of The Woke, if the Woke were actually ascending in power. Fortunately for us, it seems that we reached Peak Woke a few months ago.
"I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does"
That is how one shits on the Woke.
"You know, as a fireman, I really, really want to save you from this burning building, but I said N----- once, so I understand that as a Woke person you want nothing to do with me.
Ah, the old Shakespearean "Taming of the Shrew" technique, applied here to the woke. Sorry that nothing is ever possibly good enough for you, you deserve better, you deserve only the best, and so you get exactly nothing, because nothing is the only thing ever posssibly good enough for you.
I've used it on kids before, the injustice of the technique finally works through to their young minds, usually after their anger at being denied what they wanted is over. I am reminded of the "How DARE you?!" by young Greta, as she is denied her desire for instant gratification, because our climate change sacrifices are so inadequate. HAHAHAHAHA.
As I recall this daft skit from the 1960s, Mr. Hilter's campaign was a funny way of abusing the bloody Tories, who even then were all being called "HITLER!!!" for having non-leftist ideology. What on earth were other people called by leftists before Hitler came along?
"Fortunately for us, it seems that we reached Peak Woke a few months ago."
That's why they are trying to turn "woke" into a racist dog whistle. It's hurting them and they know it.
"What on earth were other people called by leftists before Hitler came along?"
Aristos?
Mikey NTH: "What on earth were other people called by leftists before Hitler came along?"
Well, one thing the "very fine" leftists/commies did during the Spanish Civil War was kill over 6,000 priests and nuns (yes, nuns) as well as burning hundreds upon hundreds of churches.
Think of those Spanish Civil War lefties/commies as an earlier version of Howard's antifa "Heroes".
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