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British comedy legend John Cleese has lashed out at the press in recent days for allegedly reporting that he will be removing a politically incorrect scene from future adaptations of his movie “Life of Brian” to avoiding offending the trans community.In recent statements on Twitter, Cleese claimed that a reporter had “misreported me” when claiming the entertainer was planning to cut the famous “Loretta” scene for an upcoming stage adaptation of the classic religious satire film.He corrected the reports, claiming that he was merely illustrating what others had advised him to do with the potentially controversial scene. He declared he has “no intention” of removing it.The scene in question features a male character from the 1979 British comedy telling his associates that he wants to be woman named “Loretta” and demands the right to bear a child.

As an attorney and retired NYPD Inspector, I’ve been told some stories in my day. This one lands someplace between "Beowulf"and Monty Python.  So let us now uncover these mysteries, hidden deep in the tale.  As we’ve all heard by now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (wasn’t he recently banished from the realm or something?) are claiming that on Tuesday night, after leaving an event in Manhattan’s midtown, they were pursued by paparazzi in a "near catastrophic" car chase that went on for two hours.  A high-speed chase.  In midtown Manhattan.  For two hours.   With an NYPD escort.

keep fooling them, because I love being in musicals so much. It’s always delightful to do a musical, even though it’s so much work and I might not survive it. It’s just so infectious.

George Harrison‘s jukebox circa 1965 has been created from an archive interview with the Beatles guitarist – check it out below.Harrison would have turned 80 this week, and fans are celebrating his legacy and revisiting his life to mark the occasion.One of these is fan Andy Chistlehurst, who, as Clash point out, has dug through the archives to find a 1965 interview by Harrison with Record Mirror, where the guitarist discussed some of his influences at the time.Chistlehurst has now compiled the recommendations from the interview, including Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, Otis Redding and more, into a Spotify playlist which you can listen to below.Last year, a concert film dedicated to George Harrison was re-released in cinemas across the world.Concert For George, was first shot in 2002 at London’s Royal Albert Hall, a year after the late Beatles‘s death and featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne and members of Monty Python. It was organised by Eric Clapton and Harrison’s widow Olivia.The film and its soundtrack have been remastered in Dolby Atmos, and a new introduction by Olivia and daughter Dhani Harrison preceded screenings last November, which were put on to celebrate 20 years since the film’s release.Last year, a Beatles fan turned Harrison’s childhood home into an Airbnb and “living museum”.

Scotland is home to many unique and historic castles, but few are as visually striking as Castle Stalker.

John Cleese gave fresh voice to a familiar grudge on Tuesday, raging at the BBC for not showing repeats of Monty Python.

Comedy star John Cleese is returning to British TV by making a show for right-leaning channel GB News.

READ NEXT: Terry Jones' most famous roles from Monty Python Nude Piano Player to Prince HerbertOn the 53rd anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, Daily Star takes a look at where the cast are now.John Cleese is famous for a number of characters in Monty Python, as well as his Ministry Of Funny Walks and Dead Parrott sketches.As well as reuniting with his fellow Monty Python stars for a series of dates in London in 2014, John has completed a series of tour dates with co-star Eric Idle across American between 2015 to 2016.The now 82 year old star has since appeared in a number of hit comedies including Fawlty Towers, and films such as A Fish Called Wanda, The Great Muppet Caper and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as lending his voice to the Shrek film series.He also most recently appeared as Bridwell in the 2022 film Clifford The Big Red Dog, opposite comedian Jack Whitehall.It wasn't just fame that he found during his career however, he also found love with Connie Booth, who co-wrote and starred in Fawlty Towers with her husband.The couple were married from 1968 to 1978, and welcomed a daughter together called Cynthia, who later appeared in A Fish Called Wanda alongside her dad.John later married actress and model Barbara Trentham in 1981, with who he has another daughter called Camilla.Following their divorce in 1990, the star was married to Alyce Eichelberger from 1992 to 2008, and then to Jennifer Wade from 2012.However, his career has not been without its controversies, including a row last year with the BBC, where he blasted the "deception, dishonesty and tone" of interviewer Karishma Vaswani.It is reported that he vowed to make a formal complaint, saying: "I just did an interview with BBC

Sir Michael Palin has been gracing our screens for decades, and the actor and comedian is best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python. He rose to fame after appearing in the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus back in 1969. But in the 1980s, Palin set out on a new career path, establishing himself as a TV presenter with an array of travel documentaries, including Around The World In 80 Days With Michael Plain and Pole To Pole With Michael Palin.

Monty Python, then in his second career as a travel writer and explorer – it’s almost unsettling to see how much he still looks like the young actor who shaped the world of comedy in the 1970s and ’80s, despite being 79, a knight of the realm and a grandfather of four.The house is warren-like, slightly haphazardly arranged; Palin explains that it’s two terraced houses merged into one. He has lived here with his wife, Helen, for more than 50 years. Upstairs, his study is large and bright and book-lined, slightly donnish with wooden shelves and the collected tchotchke of a long life.

A pair of loved-up Monty Python fans have celebrated tying the knot with a laugh-a-minute tour of film locations in Scotland.

John Cleese slammed wokeness for having a “disastrous” impact on comedy during an interview with Fox News Digital. Cleese was a keynote speaker at last week’s FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas where he spoke about how to cultivate creativity, a skill he believes is essential and not just in showbiz, but sounded the alarm that political correctness has become a major obstacle, particularly for young comedians. When asked if comedians have the freedom to be funny in the year 2022, Cleese firmly responded, “No.”“There’s always been limitations on what they’re allowed to say,” Cleese said. “Why you go to Molière and Louis XIV. I mean Molière had to be a bit careful.

boobs, porn stars sitting on faces on the lawns of London and environmentalists baring their bums for MPs. In the US, one barefoot campaigner even spent two years up a 200ft tree.READ MORE: Only Fans star Vegan Booty accusses zoo of kidnapping after elephant deathAnd just this week, people donned dinosaur costumes and hurtled through the streets of Pamplona in protest at the Spanish town's bull run.Here, Daily Star looks back at some of those most memorable protests in history.In 2014, porn stars, escorts and like-minded protesters flocked to Westminster for a mass face-sit while singing tunes from Monty Python.

BAFTAs) take place.Popular shows such as Gogglebox, It's a Sin and Stath Lets Flats have been nominated, while big names including Graham Norton, Steve Coogan, Jodie Comer and Jessica Plummer will be hoping to scoop gongs.The show will air from the magnificent Royal Festival Hall in London and will be the first BAFTA ceremony in three years to be attended by an in-person audience.That will be good news for its host.For the third straight year, comedian and writer Richard Ayoade will be presenting the glamourous show.But things could have turned out oh so differently for the funnyman.Here are some things you may not know about Richard.Did you know that Richard could have so easily taken a different route and not ended up on our screens?The 44-year-old attended St Catharine's College in Cambridge after growing up in the east of England, just outside Ipswich.He finished up in the college in 1998 after three years of studying law.However, it was an extracurricular activity which helped him launch his career.Richard took a big interest in stage productions, and became president of the amateur drama club Footlights in the college (with his vice-president being John Oliver!)Previous presidents of the group included David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Hugh Laurie and members of Monty Python.Richard has since said that his degree was not a "fallback" for him, instead meaning he had to go back to "square one".John Oliver wasn't the only future star that Richard was connected with in Cambridge.He met actress Lydia Fox while studying there and has since married her.Lydia studied at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge.

Johnny Depp pursued his case in the UK against a British newspaper that had branded him a "wife-beater", the court ruled that he had struck her on 12 out of 14 occasions, and included photos and audio evidence in their decisions. However, on the stand at Fairfax, Virginia, Johnny is hoping for a different result, maintaining that it was merely angry text messages and arguments on his part, for which he feels deep regret."There were arguments and things of that nature," he acknowledged to the court."But never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms Heard in any way, nor have I struck any woman in my life."Johnny apologised for writing "dark" texts about Amber to his childhood friend Isaac Baruch, in which he said he wished her "rotting corpse" was "decomposing in the f****ng trunk of a Honda Civic".He claimed that the "dark humour", inspired by Monty Python, surfaced as a way for him to deal with his mental anguish."I’m ashamed of some of the references made.

Johnny Depp is currently giving testimony in his defamation case against his ex wife Amber Heard.

The Duke of York made a public return as he attended the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service which was held at Westminster Abbey today. John Cleese, who starred in Monty Python, has called Prince Andrew's appearance into question as he reacted to a Twitter post that also addressed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's notable absence.Prince Andrew was joined by his siblings alongside more than 30 foreign royals and the extended Royal Family for Prince Philip's memorial.The Duke of York sported a sombre expression as he arrived at the service with the Queen by his side as he supported Her Majesty.It comes after Andrew withdrew from royal duties following sexual assault allegations, which he vehemently denies, made by Virginia Giuffre in a civil claim the United States.Taking to the micro-blogging site, John, 82, posed a question in view of his 5.7 million followers.It comes after podcast host Jessica Davies reacted to an earlier tweet that questioned Andrew attending the service following the abuse allegations.In view of her 171,000 followers, she tweeted: "Literally.

As schools, shops and businesses across the UK raise funds for Red Nose Day 2022, here’s what you need to know about Comic Relief – and when Red Nose Day beganEvery mid-March, people all over the UK don iconic red noses and take part in fundraising activities to raise money to help to end child poverty and hunger. The UK’s funny fundraising campaign, spearheaded by Comic Relief, sees Red Nose Day held every two years – with schools, businesses and celebrities raising money to help aid Comic Relief’s mission of tackling poverty in the UK and across the world.

took to Twitter, saying: “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.”The funnyman followed up with a second tweet, telling his 5.6 million followers: “I apologize 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.”Cleese has impersonated Hitler on both “Fawlty Towers” and “Monty Python.”The BAFTA winner’s announcement comes after art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was banned from speaking at the Cambridge Union event.Graham-Dixon last

Joe Biden’s 22-car motorcade (flown in on Air Force One and a small invasion force of aircraft) is simply beyond parody.Both men then promptly appeared to doze off during the endless, woke opening ceremony of poetry and drivel.The event is so overcrowded that the 30,000 delegates were advised to stay in their hotel rooms and attend by Zoom. Oh the sodding irony.There aren’t enough charging points to fire up the fleet of electric limos ferrying dignitaries around, so diesel generators have been brought in to do the job.Hot water is banned at the venues to “save the planet”.

You seemed to have put a lot of stock into making an immediate first impression with the opening credits.The “B Positive” theme song and the animation in the opening credits was theresult of my weird hunch that we could set a comic tone to an otherwise grimtopic. I’ve never had any set rules for when or how to go about creating an openingtitle sequence.