John Cleese wrote ( about British ) : “I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they’re happy and that people treat them kindly. Right now I’m more focussed [sic] on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British press, the revelations about police brutality…”

nbcnews Monday, November 23, 2020 8:03:00 PM EAT

John Cleese replied : “Yes, my understanding is superficial. One thing: When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man’s body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman’s. Does that prove phobia?”

nbcnews Monday, November 23, 2020 8:03:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they're happy and that people treat them kindly,"

newshub Monday, November 23, 2020 1:14:00 AM EAT

John Cleese argued : “threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK”

telegraph Sunday, November 22, 2020 10:51:00 PM EAT

John Cleese responded : “What kind of fetter will it place on the creative process if you have to start thinking things through three or four times before you say them?”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese responded : “It’s disastrous to the creative process because the creative process is a matter of spontaneity. If you’re going to come up with something that’s really interesting it’s going to come out of your unconscious and if you’re having to edit everything you say before you say it then nothing is going to happen creatively and also things that are rather lovely and funny in ordinary conversation they’re not going to happen either”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : “There’s two ways of attacking somebody with humour. One is a sort of frontal attack calling him silly or stupid or whatever and the other is to put words in their mouth that you want to discredit and make clear that the person saying those words is not someone to be taken seriously”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese asks : "Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window?"

southwales-eveningpost Monday, September 28, 2020 7:47:00 AM EAT

John Cleese asks : "Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window?"

icWales Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:16:00 PM EAT

John Cleese explained : “You had people in charge, these generals,”

standard Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:45:00 PM EAT

John Cleese adds : “So with all these things going on there’s very little chance we will ever have a sensible society and this is a particularly bad moment,”

thedailybeast Friday, July 31, 2020 3:05:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

GulfDailyNews Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:52:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

thenational Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

khaleejtimes Wednesday, July 22, 2020 10:18:00 AM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

themalaymailonline Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:54:00 AM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

wsau Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:10:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

news-yahoo Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

cyprus-mail Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “Gorgonzola, Jarlsberg, Gouda, Emmenthal, Comte and Venezuelan Beaver Cheese (Aged). All first equal…”

independent-ie Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2:14:00 PM EAT

John Cleese wrote : "The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes,"

abc-au Saturday, June 13, 2020 6:26:00 AM EAT

John Cleese wrote : "The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes,"

abc-au Saturday, June 13, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “We were not supporting (Gowen’s) views, we were making fun of them,”

globalnews Friday, June 12, 2020 9:37:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It’s not the despair, Laura,”

guardian Friday, June 12, 2020 2:18:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : "The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : "Fawlty Towers has given a large number of people a great deal of happiness, why would you want to stop that"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,”

Stuff Friday, June 12, 2020 1:00:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “Sir Isaac Newton had shares in the South Sea Company, which indulged in many different types of trading, and some of it, disgracefully, was slavery,”

Stuff Friday, June 12, 2020 1:00:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,”

theage Friday, June 12, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “Sir Isaac Newton had shares in the South Sea Company, which indulged in many different types of trading, and some of it, disgracefully, was slavery,”

theage Friday, June 12, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said ( about Graham Chapman ) : “With Terry and Graham gone I feel delighted to say I feel no obligation at all to carry on with the Python legacy. As they say... ‘It was what it was’”

themirror Sunday, May 31, 2020 10:04:00 PM EAT

John Cleese writes : “A pronoid person believes, on no reasonable grounds whatsoever, that people like him and want to help him,”

usaToday Friday, March 13, 2020 11:06:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “Farce is my greatest love Fawlty Towers consisted of 12 farces and I think UK audiences will love this hilarious classic”

yorkpress Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:35:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

John Cleese explained : "What I like about it (the joke) is it's absolutely inclusive," "Everybody can recognize that it has been true about them. When we're growing up, we think that things are going to go as plan and we go on believing that even as our decades of experience show that they never do"

telegram Monday, February 17, 2020 1:23:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Monday, February 10, 2020 9:30:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ..,”

reuters Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:37:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Friday, January 24, 2020 7:01:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away,”

eureporter Friday, January 24, 2020 8:07:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away"

opednews Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:53:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ...,”

dhakatribune Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:56:00 PM EAT

John Cleese suggesting : “our lot and your lot do something together”

YorkshirePost Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:19:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

JakartaPost Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:49:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “I shall think of him exploding,”

bostonglobe Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:16:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ..,"

thedailyherald Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:24:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “I shall think of him exploding,”

nytimes Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:21:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “He got up one day when we were shooting on the south coast,”

nytimes Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:21:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

BangkokPost Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:39:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

theglobeandmail Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:40:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away"

wtva Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:20:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection"

bbc Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:15:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away”

wqad Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:20:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

digitaljournal Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries,”

woub Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:37:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

ibtimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:28:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

pulse Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:08:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

afp-en Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:43:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection"

bbc Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:42:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away,"

newshub Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

nytimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 7:31:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

afp-en Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:01:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

nytimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:06:00 PM EAT

John Cleese believes : “sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any use to either of you”

goodtimes Wednesday, January 8, 2020 3:51:00 AM EAT

John Cleese wrote ( about British ) : “I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they’re happy and that people treat them kindly. Right now I’m more focussed [sic] on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British press, the revelations about police brutality…”

nbcnews Monday, November 23, 2020 8:03:00 PM EAT

John Cleese replied : “Yes, my understanding is superficial. One thing: When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man’s body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman’s. Does that prove phobia?”

nbcnews Monday, November 23, 2020 8:03:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they're happy and that people treat them kindly,"

newshub Monday, November 23, 2020 1:14:00 AM EAT

John Cleese argued : “threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK”

telegraph Sunday, November 22, 2020 10:51:00 PM EAT

John Cleese responded : “What kind of fetter will it place on the creative process if you have to start thinking things through three or four times before you say them?”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese responded : “It’s disastrous to the creative process because the creative process is a matter of spontaneity. If you’re going to come up with something that’s really interesting it’s going to come out of your unconscious and if you’re having to edit everything you say before you say it then nothing is going to happen creatively and also things that are rather lovely and funny in ordinary conversation they’re not going to happen either”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : “There’s two ways of attacking somebody with humour. One is a sort of frontal attack calling him silly or stupid or whatever and the other is to put words in their mouth that you want to discredit and make clear that the person saying those words is not someone to be taken seriously”

heraldscotland Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:39:00 PM EAT

John Cleese asks : "Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window?"

southwales-eveningpost Monday, September 28, 2020 7:47:00 AM EAT

John Cleese asks : "Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window?"

icWales Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:16:00 PM EAT

John Cleese explained : “You had people in charge, these generals,”

standard Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:45:00 PM EAT

John Cleese adds : “So with all these things going on there’s very little chance we will ever have a sensible society and this is a particularly bad moment,”

thedailybeast Friday, July 31, 2020 3:05:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

GulfDailyNews Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:52:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

thenational Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

khaleejtimes Wednesday, July 22, 2020 10:18:00 AM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

themalaymailonline Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:54:00 AM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

wsau Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:10:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,"

news-yahoo Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun,”

cyprus-mail Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:41:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “Gorgonzola, Jarlsberg, Gouda, Emmenthal, Comte and Venezuelan Beaver Cheese (Aged). All first equal…”

independent-ie Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2:14:00 PM EAT

John Cleese wrote : "The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes,"

abc-au Saturday, June 13, 2020 6:26:00 AM EAT

John Cleese wrote : "The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes,"

abc-au Saturday, June 13, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “We were not supporting (Gowen’s) views, we were making fun of them,”

globalnews Friday, June 12, 2020 9:37:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It’s not the despair, Laura,”

guardian Friday, June 12, 2020 2:18:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : "The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese added : "Fawlty Towers has given a large number of people a great deal of happiness, why would you want to stop that"

RTERadio Friday, June 12, 2020 1:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,”

Stuff Friday, June 12, 2020 1:00:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “Sir Isaac Newton had shares in the South Sea Company, which indulged in many different types of trading, and some of it, disgracefully, was slavery,”

Stuff Friday, June 12, 2020 1:00:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them,”

theage Friday, June 12, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “Sir Isaac Newton had shares in the South Sea Company, which indulged in many different types of trading, and some of it, disgracefully, was slavery,”

theage Friday, June 12, 2020 9:46:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said ( about Graham Chapman ) : “With Terry and Graham gone I feel delighted to say I feel no obligation at all to carry on with the Python legacy. As they say... ‘It was what it was’”

themirror Sunday, May 31, 2020 10:04:00 PM EAT

John Cleese writes : “A pronoid person believes, on no reasonable grounds whatsoever, that people like him and want to help him,”

usaToday Friday, March 13, 2020 11:06:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “Farce is my greatest love Fawlty Towers consisted of 12 farces and I think UK audiences will love this hilarious classic”

yorkpress Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:35:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

John Cleese explained : "What I like about it (the joke) is it's absolutely inclusive," "Everybody can recognize that it has been true about them. When we're growing up, we think that things are going to go as plan and we go on believing that even as our decades of experience show that they never do"

telegram Monday, February 17, 2020 1:23:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Monday, February 10, 2020 9:30:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ..,”

reuters Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:37:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "He's got the widest spread of all of us,"

CBSnews Friday, January 24, 2020 7:01:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away,”

eureporter Friday, January 24, 2020 8:07:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away"

opednews Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:53:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ...,”

dhakatribune Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:56:00 PM EAT

John Cleese suggesting : “our lot and your lot do something together”

YorkshirePost Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:19:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

JakartaPost Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:49:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “I shall think of him exploding,”

bostonglobe Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:16:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away ..,"

thedailyherald Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:24:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “I shall think of him exploding,”

nytimes Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:21:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “He got up one day when we were shooting on the south coast,”

nytimes Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:21:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

BangkokPost Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:39:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

theglobeandmail Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:40:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away"

wtva Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:20:00 AM EAT

John Cleese said : "Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection"

bbc Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:15:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “it feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away”

wqad Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:20:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

digitaljournal Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:02:00 PM EAT

John Cleese told : “Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries,”

woub Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:37:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

ibtimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:28:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

pulse Wednesday, January 22, 2020 9:08:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

afp-en Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:43:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection"

bbc Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:42:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away,"

newshub Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

nytimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 7:31:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away. "

afp-en Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:01:00 PM EAT

John Cleese said : “It was our treat on a Thursday afternoon,”

nytimes Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:06:00 PM EAT

John Cleese believes : “sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any use to either of you”

goodtimes Wednesday, January 8, 2020 3:51:00 AM EAT