John Cleese GB News

The Fawlty Towers star told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the new show will see him work alongside satirist Andrew Doyle, and encourage "proper argument". Doyle ...

Though a BBC spokeswoman said at the time it had been a "fair and appropriate interview". Cleese been a vocal critic of cancel culture in comedy and so-called "woke" politics. He later walked out of a BBC interview due to what he described as the "deception, dishonesty and tone" of the conversation.

John Cleese has delighted audiences for decades. After ripping up the comedy rulebook with Monty Python in the sixties, he created, wrote and starred in the ...

We should be left to go quietly to bed and watch the telly”. The thing I try to remember is the good times when we were young and funny. The acquisition of Nigel Farage in July 2021 signalled a lurch even further to the right, which is not typically home turf for British comedians. Speaking to the Guardian this month, Cleese’s fellow Python Eric Idle said: “He is who he is now. Cleese has been taking a silly walk down this path for a few years. After taking umbrage at a 2016 column written by Fraser Nelson - in the Spectator, no less - Cleese tweeted: “Why do we let half-educated tenement Scots run our English press?

The Monty Python comic, and latest GB News signing, was once anti-establishment. Now he is merely “anti-woke”.

The Cleese of 1979, yes, was defending himself against censorship, but back then his targets were the powerful. In recent years Cleese has critiqued the multiculturalism of London and voiced his support for Brexit. But GB News is the perfect home for who Cleese is now. To use a contemporary phrase: Cleese absolutely destroyed his opponents. (“Yes!” a crowd shouts back in unison to Graham Chapman’s Brian in one of film’s most famous scenes. John Cleese has always been the member of the Monty Python team most keen on a verbal skirmish.

The actor and comedian, 82, created and starred in the classic sitcom Fawlty Towers and was one of the comedy troupe members behind the surreal sketch show ...

John Cleese is a former Monty Python stalwart who recently became a vocal critic of the cancel culture and wokeism. He has joined GB News as a regular ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). However, Cleese had allegedly accused GB News of having Russian influence in an earlier tweet, calling it While on BBC’s flagship radio news program, Today, the comedian described himself as an "old school liberal" and said that GB News was a free speech channel, not a right-wing one. Cleese confirmed that his new show on GB News would go live in 2023. Cleese has been a vocal critic of the "cancel culture" and 'wokeism' in the recent past. Cleese raked a controversy in November last year by pulling out of an event at

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

He has spent much of the morning on Twitter discussing the show and criticizing TV rivals. Somewhat ironically, he claimed he would 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.” And what they said was, ‘People say it’s a right-wing channel.

Sky News host Rowan Dean says former “Monty Python” actor John Cleese will be hosting a show on GB News – after saying he would be “cancelled or would say ...