Moore : What did you sing? Singers : (speaking, a bit worriedly) We sang... he steals from the poor and gives to the rich?
Moore : (looking down) Wait a tic ... blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought.
While without a doubt the funniest member of one of the funniest comedy troupes ever created, John Cleese (Dennis Moore) has always been a left-wing fanatic. Furthermore, I just read Michael Palin's diary from 1969-1979, and he's about as big a leftist as Cleese. I find it amusing that like the Moore sketch, which seems to satirize redistributionists (who do we know that resembles that?), they've had other sketches such as the medieval Marxists in the Holy Grail where socialism is satirized. I was disturbed by Palin's diary by the number of slams he directed at America. Cleese is a big fan of Keith Olbermann. I saw a clip on the internet of three of Python's appearing on Olbermann's program.