John Cleese Carefully Considers Your Useless Comments

He certainly does love to debase all things America, doesn’t he. He fancies himself as such a deeply intellectual man but as yet all he’s done in the entirety of his adult life is act silly. He has certainly profited from simply being silly to be sure, but he hasn’t done anything else at all, has he.

Interesting that with all his mental prowess and dizzying intellect he hasn’t cured cancer, or perfected cold fusion, or anything else whatsoever that benefits mankind on the whole in any way. I’d have thought that by now he’d at least have used his superior intelligence to solve at least one problem vexing mankind. Just one. But no, he’s done nothing else at all, but act silly. Which is enough, I suppose, if you’re completely self-centered and all you’re interested in doing is enriching yourself.

The interview seems to be questions mostly from Americans, so it is kind of hard not to have answers about America.

Someone said they thought the “Parrot Sketch” was stupid and liked Jeff Dunham better. I think the question was tongue-and-cheek, but Cleese was polite and offered that Jeff Dunham was probably great.

He is a comedian, and answered the questions put to him, in what I thought was a gracious tone. He doesn’t like Fox News, but that doesn’t mean he hates the US. Maybe he is a John Stewart / Colbert fan?

If you are offended because some “foreigner” (ooh) ridicules Fox News, you deserve it.

Not to say there are not a lot of things to be ridiculed from other countries, like the UK for instance. Go ahead, have fun, nobody is stopping you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKp7HDv01hk