John Cleese: Monty Python wouldn’t get commissioned today

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**Caution: explicit language in the video below**John Cleese, the cheeky devil, dropped an F-bomb live on air while being interviews by Chris Moyles this morning.The Monty Python legend isn’t one to adhere to censorship guidelines, however he went above and beyond any bleep button when he swore during Moyles’s Radio X programme on Thursday morning.Politely, however, Cleese did ask whether he could say the offending word – even though he had already gone and said it during the family-friendly morning hour.The moment occurred after the host mentioned that he’d been thinking about the Monty Python Money Song.After playing a line from the song, Cleese then went on to ask a question: ‘Now, am I allowed to say f***?’To view this video please

Chris Moyles apologised to viewers during Thursday's Radio X morning show as John Cleese dropped the f-bomb on air.The 80-year-old Fawlty Towers star left the radio studio stunned as he asked if he could say "f***" during the live broadcast.Chris was playing the Monty Python legend a comedy song, but he certainly wasn't expecting the response that came from the actor's mouth.Cleese said: "That's very good, now am I allowed to say f***."The studio all quickly said "no", but it was of course too late as the swear had already been said.Chris was forced to apologise to viewers as he said: "Oh no god, oh no, not at all."I have to apologise for you saying it and say sorry about that."Listeners went into meltdown on social media, so much so that

THE One Show host Alex Jones was left baffled at Fawlty Towers legend John Cleese stormed off mid-interview. Yet for the actor, who played Basil Fawlty in the hilarious BBC comedy, it was all part of a big prank.

John Cleese has claimed that Monty Python would not be commissioned for TV if it was produced today.The comedy troupe’s surrealist sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus originally aired between 1969 and 1974 on the BBC.Speaking on The One Show, the 80-year-old actor and comedian said TV executives did not know what they were doing.He said they needed to hand over creative control to artists instead of making decisions based on what “marketing people” said viewers wanted.Asked whether the work of Monty Python would be commissioned today, Cleese replied: “No, I don’t think it would.“The problem with television and television executives has always been that they think they know what they are doing.”He added: “They don’t know what they are

John Cleese has criticised the “stifling” effect of political correctness on creativity – saying there is no such thing as a “woke joke”.The ex-Monty Python star, 80, said “affectionate teasing” is a bonding mechanism.He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “PC stuff started out as a good idea which is, ‘Let’s not be mean to people’. and I’m in favour of that… despite my age.

Monty Python icon John Cleese has criticised the ‘stifling’ nature of political correctness, wondering whether such a thing as a ‘woke joke’ exists.The 80-year-old star mused that ‘affectionate teasing’ is a bonding mechanism, and dismissed the notion that societies should be driven by the ‘most easily upset’.Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, he said: ‘PC stuff started out as a good idea, which is, “Let’s not be mean to people”, and I’m in favour of that, believe it or not, despite my age.