Monty Python’s John Cleese has once again blasted wokeness as a destructive force, saying it has a “disastrous effect” on comedy and serves as the enemy of artistic creativity.
with Fox News during the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas.“There’s always been limitations on what they’re allowed to say,” Cleese said, citing government censors in centuries past.
“But I think it’s particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom, where you’re not checking everything you say critically before you move on. What you have to be able to do is to build without knowing where you’re going because you’ve never been there before.”
He continued: “That’s what creativity is — you have to be allowed to build. And a lot of comedians now are sitting there and when they think of something, they say something like, ‘Can I get away with it? I don’t think so. So and so got into trouble, and he said that, oh, she said that.’ You see what I mean? And that’s the death of creativity.”“You can do the creation and then criticize it, but you can’t do them at the same time.
When asked to name the last great comedy he has seen, Cleese named two Steve Martin movies from the 80s —
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