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such as “Little Britain,” because they featured performers in blackface. It follows the Black Lives Matter movement forcing issues of discrimination and equality up the social agenda after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.Cleese was supportive of the Black Lives Matter mission. “At the moment there is a huge swell of anger and a really admirable feeling that we must make our society less discriminatory, and I think that part of it is very good,” he said. “It seems to me the best parts of the George Floyd protests have been very moving and very, very powerful.”.

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