BREAKING: John Cleese slams BBC's 'stupid' decision to remove Fawlty Towers
JOHN Cleese has blasted a "stupid" decision to drop his classic "Germans" Fawlty Towers episode from TV over its offensive content.
But 80-year-old Monty Python and Fawlty legend Cleese hit back with a withering attack on the forces moving to censor comedy.Cleese - now based in Los Angeles - said: “One of the things I’ve learned in the last 180 years is that people have very different senses of humour. “It reminds me of the definition of a Scottish Presbyterian as someone who has a nasty, sneaking feeling that someone, somewhere, is having a good time.”
“So are we going to get rid of Newton’s optics on the grounds that it’s not really sound any more because he held shares in a company that dealt in slaves?
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