Too Funny For Words

19 Replies to “Too Funny For Words”

1. “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

   Tom Lehrer

   1. When they gave it to Arafat I remarked to a friend that if were ever nominated my first thought would be, “Oh dear, what have I been doing wrong?”

2. Too much truth for Texas Victimhood?
   John Cleese will be remembered as a real comedian..
   The “Victimhood Zealots” will remain material for comedy.

   1. This happened in Austin. Figures.

3. Cleese was trying humor in a US college town where the audience needs to have some education to appreciate humor. That college town audience likely believed that British colonialists invented slavery and colonization and were white which means racist so those things were sacred and couldn’t be questioned or used for humor which doesn’t exist in the woke mind.

4. You knew it was only a matter of time before they turned their torches and pitchforks on him.

5. So She assaulted Him to “save him”.

   1. It looks like she’s eaten a few, so he got off lucky.

6. John Cleese?? Good, he’s earned it. I wouldn’t turn the porch light on for that mutt and the fact that he’s getting what he’s been dishing out gladdens my heart.
   As Shaidle once said about Cleese back in the day when he received heat for his “Yobs” comment – When you’re throwing traditions and values on the bonfire every week, an obvious reference to his weekly Monty Python days and other televised idiocies, the inference is you want them gone forever.
   Well now they’re gone you old codger. Enjoy, you stupid effer.
   Gonna vote Labour next time around?? Lord knows you’re stupid enough.

   1. Wow. Where to begin…. It’s hard to contmplate what kind of strange, small mind you appear to have.

      1. Yeah sorry but I don’t worship at the altar of “Monty Python” which immediately makes me suspect I’m sure. Here’s another entertainment flash…I’m not a Dylan fan either. I know, the horror. But if people want to shell out bucks for a guy who sings through his nose I’m not going to argue with them.
         As Paul mentions below – Cleese thought he’d score some points with the left by being an anti Trump dickhead a few years ago. Why doesn’t he like Trump? Who knows other than “He’s mad” and. Something about an Armada sailing in the wrong direction which of course is ludicrous but hey…he’s a “comedian”
         https://youtu.be/2UueGetlwpw?t=52
         Now progressives have turned on him as they are wont to do and he has the sadz. Good.

         Still my favourite line from Ed Driscoll some ten years ago – “Cleese is apparently the last to know that he spent 40 years sawing off the very branch he, come to think of it now, had rather enjoyed sitting upon.

         I doubt very much you’d know the small minded Mr.Driscoll.

         1. Peter Hitchens agrees with you. See his book The Abolition of Britain.

            There’s amusement in watching the iconoclasts of 20-50 years ago get the boot in their throats too, I guess.

            1. Going to read it…thanx for the tip.

7. Diversity is our strength. Unless your comedy attempts to educate us and expand our minds.

   Mindless groupthink is the Death Sentence for the West, and there can be no tolerance for diversity of thought, the most important diversity of all

   1. “Mindless group think is the Death Sentence for the West”. If nothing else “covid” proved that is correct.

8. When you’re throwing traditions and values on the bonfire every week, an obvious reference to his weekly Monty Python days and other televised idiocies

   She was off the mark on that one. Python was never political satire, it was absurdist comedy. Even Cleese’s standalone work is hardly political – if Fawlty Towers is “throwing traditions and values on the bonfire every week”, then so is Chef! and Keeping Up Appearances.

   1. The Pythons did poke fun at the tomfoolery of government, the British electoral system, and even Margaret Thatcher before she became PM.

      1. Sure – but those were the exception, not the rule. Is Election Night Special lampooning the British electoral system, or is it lampooning the breathless way the media reports on elections? What, exactly, are the Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, and Australian Philosophy Professors sketches lampooning? We’re not talking about Lenny Bruce or George Carlin here. The Ministry of Silly Walks is a making fun of the UK government’s tendency to fund ridiculous arts programs – um, don’t we consider that a good thing to make fun of?

9. Cleese is a Trump hating goof. Such a disappointment. He is just like the woke not so woke Mayor of Seattle. They always eat their own. Bravo