John Cleese Explains The Advantages of Extremist Hard Left and Right

Thought I would post this to give you guys a smile.

What can I say? He kind of hits the nail on the head.

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a reply to: Smarties

The extremists on either side wont get it since they don't think they're extremists.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

lol

I listened to it 3 times and I still don't get it.

a reply to: Jamie2018

John Cleese doesn't like the hard left, but he said this 30 years ago. What rang true 30 years ago is just as true today.

In the video, he is aligning the Hard left with the communists and everything considered not good in the free world.

They came after Fawlty Towers.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Smarties

The extremists on either side wont get it since they don't think they're extremists.

Unfortunately , no matter what one (ahem) believes or states , there can never be a centrist person.
There are those that pretend to be centrist while condemning all folks with competing views as "extremists" .

originally posted by: Jamie2018
I listened to it 3 times and I still don't get it.

I should also say, he tweeted this the other day in relation to the protests going on showing them to be extremists

a reply to: Gothmog

Try me.

originally posted by: ketsuko
They came after Fawlty Towers.

Lol, yes. Is that Tom Baker in your avatar? Dr who lol

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Smarties

The extremists on either side wont get it since they don't think they're extremists.

This^

a reply to: Smarties

Either way, you win and everyone else loses.

Brilliant!

a reply to: Smarties

Thank you for that Smarties. You know there was a period in Cleese's life where he got mightily depressed. His compassion for life and other people were taxed to the extreme by the folly in this world and it took him down into existential despair for a bit. Can't say when but I recall watching an interview with him once he had managed to pull himself out of it. Somewhat anyway.

The video you presented ran on into the next video which was of Cleese giving the eulogy at Graham Chapman' funeral. That brought tears to my eyes in remembrance of the deeply critical aspect on civilized life that Python often presented, though presented in and most beautifully satirical manner I can recall.

No it didn't

It most certainly did.