Andrew Graham: Last News

+2

All news where Andrew Graham is mentioned

express.co.uk
48%
459
John Cleese has microphone taken away at SXSW after making controversial slavery joke
She explained: “I saved a comic whose career I respect.”But John continued: “I want reparations from Italy… And then the Normans came over in 1066.“They were horrible people from France and they colonised us for 30 years and we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”John notoriously pulled out of an appearance at Cambridge University last year after art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, who was a visiting speaker, was banned for doing a Hitler impression.Explaining his absence, John said he was “blacklisting myself before someone else did.”John wrote in view of his 5.6 million Twitter followers: "I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler"I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does," he added."I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply," John said.In 2020 he criticised what he branded as "woke" comedy after the BBC Studios-owned broadcaster UKTV removed an episode of Fawlty Towers from its back catalogue.UKTV deleted The Germans from its Gold Box Set of shows as it contained “racial slurs”.John co-created and starred in Fawlty Towers between 1975-1979.He did not agree with UKTV’s decision, stressing that cancel culture took the “fun” out of life.He told the Straits Times: “I think that they misunderstand one of the main purposes of life which is to have fun.“What you have to realise about humour is that it’s true to say that everything humorous is critical.“If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and always behaves
DMCA