Given the cluster of sacked misogynists at GB News, perhaps they should also have Committee A and Committee B reviewing their shows and presenters.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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I think the interview process was "are you a misogynist with an anti-woke agenda?".
Honestly this is great advertising for committee procedure
The BBC has cause to ssack plenty of people but they generally hide their wrongdoings from the public until some bombshell report blows it open and they get the government to seal records
This man does not need exposure. Leave him in the past.
It’s sad to see what he’s become.
I bet Graham Chapman would be ashamed.
I'm a Monty P fan from way back. But I think this is a bad idea. Culture and times change and some people just don't keep up with them or care to.
Indeed, he seems to think that because sometimes like Fawlty towers wouldn't be made today that things have gotten worse, when the reality is that people have grown bored of cheap stereotypes being used as the butt of jokes. Comedy moves on, like any other medium and you either move with it or you become the very thing you used to make fun of.
Honestly Fawlty Towers was always quite aware/clever about this stuff and it was generally Basil Fawlty who was the butt of the joke. Cleese’s heel turn of the last 20 years makes you wonder whether he never really got it, or has just morphed into the character.
Lol, didn’t he part write it, not just act it? Do you think he didn’t get his own work? Or you think it was hugely successful despite us all misunderstanding it?
He’s just old. The world has changed and he hasn’t. He lashes out with bigotry, without the nuance he would have had when questioning taboos before.
Or because he's (become?) a curmudgeonly reactionary?
If a network hires you to say whatever you want, and that network is known for having certain opinions, there is a high chance that "whatever you want" is in alignment with them.
If he really wanted to explain why he joined GB News, he'd probably just show a screenshot of his bank account.
This should be a sign of whats in store for GB news. Cleese is a sign of times past, they're appealing to an aging and dwindling base.
He’s has so much therapy since he did anything great. It’s a great irony that his fans from his golden period could never consider it an option, or afford it. He’s probably a better functioning human person now, although he does seem again ironically to come out with typical old man shit rather than anything insightful or useful. More to the point, he’s just allowed on gb news because old white twats have money and revenue generating adverts to those same twats are highly prized
You can do whatever you want...as long as it passes Committee A...and then Committee B....but after that you can do whatever you want! I think hw should do a serious interview then have titties somewhere behind the interviewee.
I think hw should do a serious interview then have titties somewhere behind the interviewee.
Come back LIVE TV, all is forgiven.