Open — John Cleese Hates Us — Thread

Isn't this the guy who got conned by his third or fourth wife….or was it a possible fifth wife who claimed to be younger than she was—-yeh, that John Cleese is the first person I turn to for a judgement on someone's character and honesty.
Go silly walk away, John.

Another one bites the dust! Yet another performer whose work I enjoyed, forever more placed on my official " Do Not Watch List"
Oh well, there's always old W.C. Fields movies….

Too bad Obama is continuing all of Bush's failed policies. From spending, to war, to bailouts, to the patriot act, to DADT, everything is the same, if not worse. People fell for Obama because they were tired of Bush and assumed McCain would have been too similar. But right now, both the left and right are failing at fiscal and social policies. They both spend like crazy and they both can't keep their noses out of your bedroom. The differences are superficial, but enough to distract us and keep us in a 2 party system, when they're both statists.

What frustrates me more, is that the anti-war protests have all but stopped, as if it's okay when Obama sends more troops to die for made up causes with no clue on what a "win" would be defined as. And where were the Tea Parties when Bush was still president? People are blinded by partisanship. Apparently, it's only bad when "the other guy" does it.

Sorry to get off topic, but I’d just like to mention that a few friends of mine and numerous other friends in Christ are in D.C. today for the March for Life rally. Please keep them and their cause in your prayers.

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we can commiserate over John Wayne movies..

What is it that makes comedians think they can make the switch to political commentators… Maher, Garafalo, Olberman (wait, he was a sportscaster and is NOW a comedian) …

There was no need for TEA parties in W's presidency, I think. He was the one cutting tax breaks left and right, doing the things that build an economy, the same tax cuts that this admin is going to let expire in addition to heaping more and more taxes on us. This hopey changey admin and its 'most ethical congress ever' were the ones that got America to the point that they had to stand up and say we're Taxed Enough Already…TEA…

Well, they probably bought Palin's book to patch the holes in their dilapidated double-wides, right? 'Cause everyone knows knuckling-dragging conservatives don't read. Or write, which is why Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck never ever wrote a book.

never much cared for Cleese, I'm too young for the folly of Monty Python, but his description of Palin as a parrot is spot on, she did memorize and repeat the same things over and over. I voted for her because I couldn't vote for Obama, but if she gets in the race for 2012, the GOP is going to have problems. We need to distance ourselves from failed Republicans like Palin, extreme Republicans like Robertson and obnoxious Republicans like Limbaugh and Beck.

She didn't fail. She had no choice. She was used and abused, by her own party, Washington, the media, and a good portion of the people, in the US and abroad. Her role was to be a parrot. But then, what was Obama's role? What is his role now? What, if not a parrot? (A parrot who can read.)

That doesn't mean that Palin should return to the races—she must not, because she clearly doesn't have what it takes—, but her person and her role in this big 2008 sham is continuously being distorted.

There may have been some truth to this on the 2008 campaign trail since McCain's handlers were determined to rein her in, but when I've seen her speak unbridled, as it were, there's no doubt in my mind she knows what she's talking about, what she believes in, and what is on the hearts of Americans today.

I'd still take her over our current president in a heartbeat. At least she loves America and connects with its people!

why is it that for years we heard about how Reagan was just an actor and dumb as a sack of oats, but now every actor in hollywood is a genius and really ought to be listened to?

Actually, he said 5% of Europeans agree with Palin, like that makes any difference.

It's astounding how the Brits try to act like experts on American politics when they have no clue what the hell they're talking about.

Wow, I think that is the best complete example of close mindedness, head in the sand, I can't hear you (hands cupped over ears) I've seen in quite a while. Quality multiple examples. To laud thought to speach abilities of Obama and Biden when one has to read everything off a teleprompter and the other has put his foot in his mouth so much it's constantly prune skined is amazing, and that's just one example. I won't even get going on his concept that Fox off the chart conservative/republican versus the rest of the media being down the middle?!?

it was pretty good
he is usually a one trick pony, but nailed the mannerisms

What's this clip? "The Department of Silly Talks?"

Another "Cambridge Don" (home of Philby, Burgess, McLean) who's sure he understands everything.

Yet another example of the pathology of celebrity wherein their fame translates into an irrepressible urge to opine on everything and prescribe their nostrums for the enlightenment of us lesser beings.

He's funny on film, but I don't think he realizes how funny he is in this unintentional self-satire.

I wish our fellow citizens would wake up to the fact that delivery with a British accent of some kind does not necessarily bestow veracity on each utterance, although the number of Commonwealth pitchmen hawking crap on TV tells me that won't happen any time soon.

And now – from a different Britain and another world – the marvelous, legendary FLANAGAN and ALLEN sing their wonderful hit tune UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES from 1945. No complaints, lads! Let your Friday be a mellow one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYngwGUWzo

and live –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3cBmfJEVn4

No wonder our ancestors left to come to America!

Maybe "Il Dufe" can appoint him head of the Ministry of Silly Economics. No; make that "Czar" of Silly Economics.

The 2000 election was stolen? I remember the BBC saying the same thing on election night. ?Massive voter fraud" is how they described it. Never mind the complete lack of evidence. Just once I'd like an interviewer to respond with: "You are really quite stupid aren't you Mr Cleese?" "You've made up virtually everything you just said and , I fear you actually believe your own lies."

Ah…but he was the wrong kind of actor because he was a Republican.

I wonder if Cleese knows the Lord.

Yeah, what was it he said the other day? Something about how maybe the FBI deliberately let the underwear bomber get on a plane to make Obama look bad. I'd resent that comment more, were it not for the fact that Brown's victory and the potential demise of the health care bill have clearly addled his brains more than usual.

There is a difference between Intelligence and Wisdom. Today we seem to think that Itelligence should trump wisdom which is one of the reasons we are in the trouble we are today. John Cleese is no idiot. He is a man of letters with a very good education but he has not gained any wisdom from it. Wisdom is gained from experience either personal or from others Intelligence is merely the ability to absorb and regurgitate new information. Remember this, all our current problems have been brought to us without exception by really smart people.

Do not let his drivel stop you from enjoying his comedic work. I still laugh at Robin Williams but I would not go to him for advice. That is the attitude I have with almost everyone in the performing arts. I can enjoy thier talents but critical thinking is not one of them. As an example Alec Baldwin is very funny on 30 Rock but I think he is too simple minded to take seriously on anything outside of his relections on acting and movies.

This is off topic…but a)it's an open thread and 2) I don't want to talk about John Cleese so, My "Brothers At War" dvd came in the mail…watched it…loved it, and you should too.

The only thing more annoying than entertainers who think that they know better than the rest of us fumb duckers: Entertainers from other countries who think that they know better than the rest of us fumb duckers.

Hey Cleese, why don't you just shut up and sing (as Ingraham says)?

Fawlty Towers – Monty Python – those were the days for John Cleese. Now he's just one more tired old clown with memories of those days gone by when folks thought him funny.

I love it. The problem with average Americans is that they're too stupid to recognize their intellectual betters. They actually believe that garbage in the Constitution about all men being created equal and want to elect someone that will represent them, instead of dictate to them! Got to hand it to John Cleese, he's even funnier than he thinks Sarah Palin is! ROFL

He's also a statist. He, like so many other humans, are convinced life can and should be properly ordered. That all we unwashed masses need is a kind, caring, benevolent government to over see how harried and little lives. And if we'd just shut up and submit to the inevitable, every one would be better off.

Funny how many Americans seem to have a problem with that government model.

GO BROWN!

Well to be fair, it must have been sad watching the fall of the British Empire while witnessing the ascension of the American Century.

"Funny how many Americans seem to have a problem with that government model. "

Indeed, a little thing called the American Revolution kind of gave our opinion on the British government way of doing things.

The guy's a comedian. He writes jokes about dead parrots for a living.

That's why I didn't even bother to watch the video. Why ruin my day by listening to a pompous ass spout off on what he knows nothing about?

I'll pay attention to Cleese when he's funny, and I'll ignore his rants, and be all the happier for it.

yeah, that was my reaction too.

He has a lot of repressed rage at the country that 'spawned ' his ex wife, the suddenly quite well-off Alyce Faye Eichelberger. That seems to have driven all vestiges of objectivity from his pitiful little brain, sadly.

I have always wondered at why they as a people want to immerse themselves in the goings-on of our society so completely. From sniping at the quality of our films, to jeering at the political choices we make or snarking incessantly over 'ugly Americans' , they just cannot stop thinking and talking about us, and this country…

Is it envy? Do they covet having the choice of more than a half dozen state-run television channels? Chafing under the ludicrous television tax they pay, wherein the very sets they watch television shows on are metered and taxed accordingly?(Although the idea of BBC trucks trolling through neighborhoods through the dark, scanning electronically for 'pirate' sets in operation is frightening at the very least in any country that claims to be free!) And the trade-off, having no commercials is admirable, but look at the control over their lives they are relinuishing for that dubious distinction.

"I wish our fellow citizens would wake up to the fact that delivery with a British accent of some kind does not necessarily bestow veracity on each utterance, although the number of Commonwealth pitchmen hawking crap on TV tells me that won't happen any time soon. "

I just repeated that phrase out loud using a British accent. And yes, I did sound particularly smart. Ok, back to my caveman speech for the rest of the day. Me hungry, go kill bigmac.

Dont just stand there gawing! Like you've nevere seen the 'and of God before!

She had the man who advised Paul McCartney and Charles the Prince of Wales, in their respective divorces.

Because Reagan wasn't smart enough to realize life and reality are like a giant erector set, and all we need to make it work perfectly is the right, smart people, behind closed doors, and can bring all the pieces together.

Funny how the left never seems to find the right people?

Well, he's got to do something to keep his name in the press, he's got a hell of a divorce settlement to pay off.

I did, and I wasn't impressed in the least. Notice how he starts out saying Olberman used to be wise, smart, judicious?

Right. He just went bat shit crazy in the last couple of weeks. Sure.

Agreed, hysterical cries from the left are like music to my ears….

I really try not to listen to these things. John Cleese is one of the funniest men in the world. I don't want to think about the fact that he is a typical, idiotic, Hollywood liberal-type when I'm watching Python. I just want to laugh. Plus, he's a comedian and his opinion whether pro-freedom or pro-communism really doesn't (shouldn't) mean much to anyone accept himself.

Gosh. Why did I even bother to go to college? Apparently being a conservative means I can't ever shed my racist, redneck, intellectually challenged core. Only those with a liberal p.o.v. are enlightened and the rest of us just wallow in envy toward our intellectual betters.

What an ignorant a**.

Jeez, Andrew should rename his site from "Big Hollywood" to "Big Douchebags." The arrogance of Mr. Cleese, a long-time resident of the US, to sit and pontificate on American Politics while Europe slides into permanent twilight. Fawlty, America fought the Revolutionary War to divorce itself from Europe. The smart ones in this country do not aspire to be you; to wit the bare-bottomed spanking recently delivered in Massachusetts.

The man gave us Fawlty Towers. He gets a pass from me.

No idea, I live in NY.

And as a resident, I find it hard to believe that anyplace could be more liberal than we are, but California appears to have pulled it off.

Well, I can see why he has gone through another bitter divorce. Sorta sympathize wit the wife now.