‘Monty Python’s John Cleese Joins GB News To Front ‘Free Speech’ Show
deadline.comComedy star John Cleese is returning to British TV by making a show for right-leaning channel GB News. The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star, who campaigns against ‘wokeism’ and ‘cancel culture,’ will become a presenter on the network, which launched in the UK last year with an ethos to present an alternative to rivals by being primarily focused on culture wars content.
Cleese will debut on the channel next year, working alongside satirist Andrew Doyle on the currently unnamed program. Together they will encourage “proper argument,” said Cleese.
Doyle already presents Free Speech Nation on the channel, which boasts a presenting line-up that includes Piers Morgan and Dan Wootton but has rarely rated in meaningful way in the UK.
Cleese appeared on BBC radio program Today this morning to talk about the show. Somewhat ironically, he claimed he would have not have been approached by the BBC to make the same program and that he would have turned any approach down regardless because “I wouldn’t get five minutes into the first show without being canceled or censored.” Cleese also claimed he did not know about GB News before the organization’s execs approached him, though he tweeted about it in August, linking it to Russian influence as “KGB News.” He told the BBC: “I met one or two of the people concerned and had a dinner with them and I liked them very much.
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