John Cleese announces cancel culture series after Fawlty Towers episode taken off air
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1480536/John-Cleese-cancel-culture-Fawlty-Towers-taken-off-air
John, best known for comedy classics Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, will “set forth into the minefield of cancel culture to explore why a new ‘woke’ generation is trying to rewrite the rule on what can and can’t be said,” according to Channel 4.
The new series, John Cleese: Cancel Me, will see the actor ask whether it is still possible to make a good comedy without someone taking offence.
He is set to meet some famous faces who have found themselves on the receiving end of cancel culture and how they dealt with being involved in a public led scandal.
Addressing the new series, John said: “I’m delighted to have a chance to find out, on camera, about all the aspects of so-called Political Correctness.
“There’s so much I really don’t understand, like how impeccable idea of ‘Let’s all be kind to people’ has been developed in some cases as absurdum.
“I want to bring the various reasonings right out in the open so that people can be clearer in their minds what they agree with, what they don’t agree with, and what they still can’t make their mind up about.”