BRITISH ACTOR JOHN CLEESE SAYS YOU CAN'T MAKE JOKES ABOUT MUSLIMS BECAUSE THEY'LL KILL YOU

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The British comedian argued that political correctness is 'condescending'

He said it starts out as 'a halfway decent idea' then goes 'completely wrong'

Cleese added that you can make jokes about Muslims but 'they'll kill you'

The comedian was being interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher

He also said that he finds any type of fundamentalism 'terribly funny'

 

Cleese (top) on Fawlty Towers

John Cleese has argued that political correctness is 'condescending' as it only allows jokes to be made about certain groups while implying others need to be protected.

 

Speaking to Bill Maher on HBO, the legendary comedian said he used to make race jokes about nationalities such as the French and Australians - but if he mentioned Mexicans it was deemed unacceptable.

 

'It's so awful isn't it? he said. 'It starts out as a halfway decent idea, and then it goes completely wrong.   Make jokes about Swedes and Germans and French and English and Canadians and Americans, why can't we make jokes about Mexicans?

 

' Is it because they are so feeble that they can't look after themselves?   It's very, very condescending there.'

 

The British comedian then goes on to say suggest that the reason you can't make jokes about Muslims is because 'they'll kill you'. 

'Who are the people you can't make jokes about?' he asks Maher who instantly responds: 'Muslims.'

'Try that,' he adds. 'See what your Twitter feed says.' 

John Cleese and Bill Maher

A laughing Cleese responds:

'That's not saying that you can't, it just means that they'll kill you. Theoretically you could.  

 

'The problem is if you make jokes about people who are going to kill you, there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little isn't there?'

Speaking on Real Time with Bill Maher, Cleese went on to say that he finds any type of fundamentalism 'terribly funny.  '

 

Because the thing about fundamentalism is that it's taking whatever the book is - the book Qur'an or the bible - absolutely literally.  I've met some pretty smart people in life and you know not a single one of them was literal-minded.' 

With his latest book SO ANYWAY

Cleese, 75, took British audiences by storm in the 1970s as a member of the famous comedy team Monty Python's Flying Circus. He went on to make several movies, including Life of Brian and A Fish Called Wanda. 

 

He recently released a memoir titled 'So, Anyway ...', in which he  describes how being a lonely child who did not fit in helped forge his career in comedy because he learned the value of making people laugh.

 

The comedian told Reuters that now he is 'the happiest I have ever been in my life', living in London with his wife and three cats. He said that writing the book was 'the most fun I have had in 10 years'. 

 

Cleese also revealed that with age has come the realization of the importance of comedy.

 

'Making people happy for an evening is a rather useful thing to do in this world,' he said. 'I think I rather downplayed it in the past.' 
 

Watch video clip here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2851888/John-Cleese-blasts-political-correctness-protecting-select-groups-ridicule.html

Photo of Fawlty towers - Wikipedia

John Cleese's website
http://www.thejohncleese.com/

 

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