Posted on 12/16/2021 7:14:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Director slams woke mob as “a small group of closed-minded, humour-averse ideologues”
irector and Monty Python legend Terry Gilliam has found himself the latest victim of cancel culture as the Old Vic Theater in London dropped plans for a production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods after Gilliam merely suggested on social media that people should watch Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special.
Essentially Gilliam was canceled by the Old Vic for engaging in wrong think.
Not one to keep his opinion to himself, Gilliam blasted the move as the theater caving to a minute mob of woke complainers.
Gilliam noted “It is very sad that a great cultural institution like The Old Vic allowed itself to be intimidated into cancelling our production of Into The Woods by a small group of closed-minded, humour-averse ideologues on their staff, who absurdly, call themselves ”The Old Vic 12”…as if they are the victims of some cruel injustice desperately fighting for their freedom!”
The Brazil director continued “My unspeakable crime was recommending my Facebook followers to watch a Netflix special by a brilliant and provocative American comedian, and then share with me their opinions.”
“They did and civilisation did not collapse! However, The Old Vic’s artistic credibility certainly has,” Gilliam further urged.
He also warned that “Freedom of Speech is often attacked, but I never imagined that Freedom of Recommendation would be under threat as well.”
Chapelle’s Special, The Closer, was targeted for cancelation by extremist trans-activists who accused the comedian of making transphobic remarks.
Chapelle himself said at a recent performance that “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it,” adding “F*** Twitter. This is real life.”
Gilliam’s Monty Python brethren John Cleese has also made it his mission to speak out against cancel culture, ironically opting to cancel himself recently “before someone else does.”
Cleese, who was scheduled to bring along a film crew as part of a documentary on cancel culture called “Cancel Me,” didn’t even make it to a scheduled debate at Cambridge University, noting that the ‘debating society’ at the University banned another guest, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon, for impersonating Adolf Hitler.
Given that Cleese has impersonated Hitler, and Nazis multiple times as part of comedy sketches and shows, he took the decision to ‘blacklist’ himself as a protest against the University’s woke move.
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 impersonation of Hitler
I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021
The Monty Python group continuing to entertain the masses many years later.
Ha ha.
I am sure he is heart-broken.
Without his name on the marquee... I am sure that will increase revenues. They will get Greta Thronberg to direct...
BRILLIANT digs against them!!!!!!!!!!!
Not one but several!
Remember the colosseum scene in The Life of Brian?
We live in an age where it’s like all the comedy and satire of the past has been brought to mind and the culture is saying “Hold my beer!”
An updated version of the Four Yourshiremen would feature the exact same individuals competing to claim to be the most oppressed minority rather than the poorest.
Cleese got it half right. Not going is standing up, but starting with “I regret I did the same”, there should be no regret. It was comedy for crying out loud.
Pretty sure all the Pythons were liberals, but not insanely so.
Nice to see Gilliam eviscerate the lunatics that have taken over and now make up a majority of the Left.
Wow. So now you can get cancelled for merely mentioning Dave Chappelle. We are quickly approaching Soviet-style censorship. Well, at least no one is getting shot (yet).
And now it’s time for something completely difference (hat tip to Monty Python).
A joke set in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union:
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the increase in food prices?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.
Ha! I didn't know Cleese canceled himself.
Cultural communism.
I think he was being a bit sarcastic in his remark.................
That's the problem. There are forces trying to collapse civilization, but when you push back and civilization doesn't collapse they get in a tizzy.
“I think he was being a bit sarcastic in his remark.................”
Maybe. His action would seem to indicate that, but in this world, you don’t know. He could genuinely regret that part of his comedy. And that would be sad.
“Those guys are funny, and smart, but not smart enough.”
Well, if they are smart enough to see that liberalism is better than communism, that may be smart enough for me, for now. Enemy of my enemy and all that.
I don’t think he actually regrets it, that’s just backhanded English sarcasm.
That full 180 degree twist with the other foot never touching the ground is incredible. He is a great comedian and a fantastic dancer. I wonder how good a shot he is.
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