John Cleese’s cancel culture hypocrisy

‘Always look on the bright side of life’ sang Monty Python. But it seems that for at least one of the legendary sextet, such sentiments are now a thing of the past. For the octogenarian John Cleese has today announced he will complain to the BBC over an interview conducted with one of their reporters. What heinous crime did the journalist in question commit? Which unfortunate anchor is to blame? How much trouble is the Corporation in this time? Well, judging from the footage in question, the answer to Mr S seems, er, not a lot.

Cleese was riled earlier by an interview with BBC World News presenter Karishma Vaswani who chose to ask him about his views on ‘cancel culture’ – a subject on which he has spoken out numerous times before. The longtime press critic was, however, amazed that Vaswani did not want to solely discuss his forthcoming Asia tour for the entire six-minute segment and has now fired off a series of statements slamming the Beeb for its mild-mannered probing. His