John Cleese to complain about BBC interview
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5968...
I watched the whole interview. His behaviour seems hypocritical. He thinks the “woke” are unduly sensitive and underprepared for the big bad world, but he responds to a bit of gentle prodding from the interviewer (who rightly seeks to explore and challenge his views) by being passively hostile and ultimately storming out of the interview. He now apparently intends to lodge a ‘formal complaint’ with the BBC. I guess he’s okay with other people getting offended, as long as it’s not him.
I watched the whole interview. His behaviour seems hypocritical. He thinks the “woke” are unduly sensitive and underprepared for the big bad world, but he responds to a bit of gentle prodding from the interviewer (who rightly seeks to explore and challenge his views) by being passively hostile and ultimately storming out of the interview. He now apparently intends to lodge a ‘formal complaint’ with the BBC. I guess he’s okay with other people getting offended, as long as it’s not him.
Poor interview. I’m in this industry and it’s sadly become the amateur interviewer’s favourite tactic. They’ll have got him on on the premise of discussion (and, of course plugging) of his shows and then gone completely off piste to try and trigger a story. Younger artistes play along, more experienced ones are sick of it.
It appears the interview was designed to skewer old curmudgeon Cleese. Cleese and the interviewer (and whoever prepared the questions) grew up in entirely different eras. Their lived experiences will be vastly different. I don't know why people seemingly delight in bringing people like Cleese into the limelight and crucifying them.
Just watched that, I think JC came across very well and the presenter very badly. She was trying to lead him down a path and he has enough self-worth to not be a media w
e and chose to end the interview which again in my opinion was totally correct.
Someone like JC (and yes I am a fan) doesn't need to bow to the media if they are pissing him off. Good on him.
e and chose to end the interview which again in my opinion was totally correct.Someone like JC (and yes I am a fan) doesn't need to bow to the media if they are pissing him off. Good on him.
Jules Sunley said:
Just watched that, I think JC came across very well and the presenter very badly. She was trying to lead him down a path and he has enough self-worth to not be a media we and chose to end the interview which again in my opinion was totally correct.
Someone like JC (and yes I am a fan) doesn't need to bow to the media if they are pissing him off. Good on him.
Indeed. The interviewer was trying to be too smart by half and he wasn’t having anything of it. Kudos.e and chose to end the interview which again in my opinion was totally correct.Someone like JC (and yes I am a fan) doesn't need to bow to the media if they are pissing him off. Good on him.
AudiMan9000 said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5968...
I watched the whole interview. His behaviour seems hypocritical. He thinks the “woke” are unduly sensitive and underprepared for the big bad world, but he responds to a bit of gentle prodding from the interviewer (who rightly seeks to explore and challenge his views) by being passively hostile and ultimately storming out of the interview. He now apparently intends to lodge a ‘formal complaint’ with the BBC. I guess he’s okay with other people getting offended, as long as it’s not him.
Not sure you understand how these things work:I watched the whole interview. His behaviour seems hypocritical. He thinks the “woke” are unduly sensitive and underprepared for the big bad world, but he responds to a bit of gentle prodding from the interviewer (who rightly seeks to explore and challenge his views) by being passively hostile and ultimately storming out of the interview. He now apparently intends to lodge a ‘formal complaint’ with the BBC. I guess he’s okay with other people getting offended, as long as it’s not him.
Publicity is fundamentally about PR and puff pieces. If you want to interrogate that is agreed with the PA before hand. If you are going to launch into a highly sensitive area like cancel culture where Cleese has an enormous backlog you don’t spring it on him. Stupid interview with a lack of respect. Cleese rightly shut it down.
I thought Cleese came across rather well. He does actually know something about psychology and, whilst being perfectly empathetic, he's got a brain and approaches these things analytically. If you want a serious conversation, he'll engage. As he said, this stuff is complicated, and the interviewer was trivialising it while also hoping he would put his foot in it. He'd just made the fking point that people are splitting into echo-chambery camps that assume everyone else is wrong, and the interviewer then starts trying to ask him which camp he's in on various topics. That would piss anyone off. It's rather refreshing for an interviewee to point out non sequiturs and non-questions.
king point that people are splitting into echo-chambery camps that assume everyone else is wrong, and the interviewer then starts trying to ask him which camp he's in on various topics. That would piss anyone off. It's rather refreshing for an interviewee to point out non sequiturs and non-questions.Ridgemont said:
Not sure you understand how these things work:
Publicity is fundamentally about PR and puff pieces. If you want to interrogate that is agreed with the PA before hand. If you are going to launch into a highly sensitive area like cancel culture where Cleese has an enormous backlog you don’t spring it on him. Stupid interview with a lack of respect. Cleese rightly shut it down.
IndeedPublicity is fundamentally about PR and puff pieces. If you want to interrogate that is agreed with the PA before hand. If you are going to launch into a highly sensitive area like cancel culture where Cleese has an enormous backlog you don’t spring it on him. Stupid interview with a lack of respect. Cleese rightly shut it down.
He isn't a politician, but likely doing the rounds promoting his latest project. If the interviewer wants to be Cathy Newman not surprising if he pulls the plug.
anonymoususer said:
Equus said:
I actually felt a bit sorry for him... he gave the impression of just being an angry and rather confused old man. I did wonder if there was some sort of dementia at work. 
Yes that struck me too. It's not like that's a recent development, there are stories of the other pythons falling out with him in the 70s.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff