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I was difficult to know what to expect from a solo exhibition of John Cleese, organized by the Hacked Off campaign group. On June 29, the comedian tweeted that he would be acting out a "speech" but, on July 5, he called it a "new comedy of one hour".
Cleese has experienced standup as crowd funding before. The audience of The Alimony Tour helped pay for his third divorce. The £ 30 note for this event (including a raffle for dinner with Cleese) supported the Hacked Off campaign to seek a judicial review of the government's decision to abandon the second phase of the investigation. Leveson on journalistic ethics. relationship between the press and the police.
Sunday at 7:30 pm, there were 250 people in the Ondaatje Theater at the Royal Geographic Society of London, which seems popular with former members of Monty Python: Michael Palin was the company's president for three years.
hung a vast black-and-white photograph of Cleese looking dark, next to the words, "Why there is no hope". It soon became clear that anyone who was attracted to Basil Fawlty's love would get that inopportune ways, while Cleese was reading a 45-minute lecture from a big screen Autocue on how the culture was engulfed by stupidity
. was President Trump, unsurprisingly, and, in content, unoriginally; a photo of the politician with his open mouth laughed a lot. Other representatives of the new obtuse were staffing luxury hotels – in Miami, when he recorded as "Mr. Incognito", a janitor refused to let him collect an article addressed to "Cleese" – to the executives The BBC's comedy chef, for whom Cleese is currently shooting a second series of the sitcom Hold the Sunset, has been described as "Shane Someone", and is laughed at 39, having recently said that he was not commissioning Monty Python these days because, in Cleese's spin, "this did not fit with the BBC's social engineering policy." (Shane Allen had suggested that the six white Pythons, educated at the university lacked the diversity sought by the corporation today.)
Cleese said that in November he plans to leave Britain "for some time", partly because he "hates this government" but mainly to because of the BBC, which "has no idea what it's doing now".
But, true to the sponsorship of the show, the biggest annoyance for the speaker was journalism. According to him, American and Australian journalists interviewed him because they liked his work; British interviewers arrived on the negativity and personal intrusion. Seeing the analysis in amateur psychiatry, Cleese pretended, without evidence to support, that his "sanity is better than that of Paul Dacre."
"Who is Paul Dacre?", Request the assistant in front of her companion. I do not know either. His emergency phone Google has raised the face of the editor of the Daily Mail. The couple shrugged, suggesting that they had come as fans of comedy, rather than controversy, from Cleese's work.
After his speech, Cleese took some audience questions, mostly related to Python. In the second half, he spoke on stage to Graham Johnson, a former tabloid journalist, and John Ford, an old "jailer" of confidential documents and details, who told stories that may still lead to the "death of a man." cancellation of all statutory holidays Rupert Murdoch's newspaper departments.
Cleese has turned out to be an impressive interviewer – intelligent, sensitive, knowledgeable – and that is perhaps a role in which BBC executives should consider using it. For the rest, this seems to be a curious career for the co-creator of Python, Fawlty and A Fish Called Wanda – silly walks at angry talks.
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