John cleese GB News

The Monty Python comic, and latest GB News signing, was once anti-establishment. Now he is merely “anti-woke”.

The Cleese of 1979, yes, was defending himself against censorship, but back then his targets were the powerful. In recent years Cleese has critiqued the multiculturalism of London and voiced his support for Brexit. But GB News is the perfect home for who Cleese is now. To use a contemporary phrase: Cleese absolutely destroyed his opponents. (“Yes!” a crowd shouts back in unison to Graham Chapman’s Brian in one of film’s most famous scenes. John Cleese has always been the member of the Monty Python team most keen on a verbal skirmish.