British actor and comedian John Cleese (85) is not very enthusiastic about woke. He even calls it a threat to humor. Yesterday at 04:30 Cleese achieved eternal fame with Fawlty Towers and Monty Python , made in a time when much more was possible than now. He calls it a horror that society has changed and many jokes are no longer possible. "The woke crowd is destroying a lot of good comedy," he says. "They just want to be politically correct and try to impose their vision on others."
The actor is not a supporter of cancel culture, saying that proponents of the movement – ??which seeks to deprive people of their livelihoods for expressing so-called undesirable political beliefs or making politically incorrect jokes – misunderstand the nature of humor. “They have no sense of humor. I would love to have a debate with people like that and I think the first thing I would say is, give me a good woke joke,” Cleese said.
“What they don’t understand is that there are two types of teasing,” he explains. “There’s mean, hurtful humor that no one has to be a fan of. But the other type of teasing or humor is loving. You can tease people very lovingly and it’s a bonding mechanism.”
According to the actor, there is little to laugh about with perfect people. "That's why we laugh at people's weaknesses. But that is not meant to be cruel."
Woke people are also angry with John Cleese because he said that London is no longer a typical English city, “because there are so many people of foreign origin living there”.
