Graham Norton urges John Cleese to take accountability as he slams 'cancel culture' rant

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John Cleese's use of it in an interview today.The BBC chat show host said it "must be hard" for the likes of the 82-year-old to perhaps tone down what they say on this day after speaking freely with no backlash for many years.The 59-year-old said: "You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about cancel culture and you think, in what world are you cancelled?"I'm reading your article in a newspaper, or you're doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled?"Graham went on to suggest that the word should be replaced with "accountability" instead.He added to Times Radio: "John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can say and I just think it must be very hard to be a man of a certain age, who's been able to say whatever you like for years, and now suddenly, there's some accountability there.Nadia Sawalha 'very sure' she would never do Strictly after Kaye Adams"It's free speech but not consequence free."Earlier this year, the Fawlty Towers actor announced he will be fronting a documentary to find out if it's possible to create comedy without causing offence.A description about the show titled John Cleese: Cancel Me says he will "explore why a new woke generation is trying to rewrite the rules on what can and can’t be said".John has been no stranger to sharing what he deems cancel culture in recent years.Last year, he slammed BBC owned UKTV for temporarily removing an episode of Fawlty Towers.A 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the streaming service because it contains "racial slurs".At the time, the streaming service said it expected to reinstate the show with "extra guidance" in "the coming days".After criticism about the move from John and others, the.