![]() “What you have to be able to do is to build without knowing where you’re going because you’ve never been there before,” Cleese urged, adding “That’s what creativity is-you have to be allowed to build. But you can say-‘ these sort of ridiculous negotiating letters.”Ĭleese continued, “But I think it’s particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom where you’re not checking everything you say critically before you move on.” And there will always be limitations,” Cleese continued, adding “I mean in England, until some ridiculous late date like 1965, all plays had to be submitted to what used to be a part of the palace called the Lord Chamberlain, and he would read it and there were hilarious letters used to go back was saying ‘you may only say f- once,’ this sort of- ‘and you cannot say bugger. Speaking from the site of the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, the Monty Python star said “There’s always been limitations on what they’re allowed to say.” ![]() Legendary comedian John Cleese has warned that woke ideology has not only been “disastrous” for comedy, but is leading to the “death of creativity” in general.ĭuring an interview with Fox News, Cleese was asked if comedians today are allowed “the freedom to be funny,” to which he responded “no.” ![]() Which makes it all the more ludicrous to continue to see identitarians, notably the LGBT movement, continue to claim they are ‘fighting oppression’ when their mantras are echoed by every cultural institution, media outlet and corporate entity in the west, while anyone who utters a whimper of dissent is swiftly cancelled. They are beyond cancellation.įor any up and coming celebrity, or even one who is at the top of their game, to question ‘generation woke’ is career suicide. Once again, this only tends to happen with older celebrities who have already passed their peak of fame and entered icon status. While Daltrey’s comments may not be mind-blowing, any celebrity speaking out against the mob that has cannibalized culture is something to be applauded. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth and start to read books again,” he said. It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. “It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth. There’s no doubt about that,” he said.ĭaltrey also slammed the negative impact that social media has had on the world, saying it has undermined truth. “Especially when you’ve lived through the periods of a life that we’ve had the privilege to. The singer noted how he was lucky to have lived through an era where freedom of speech was encouraged, not silenced. I mean, anyone who’s lived a life and you see what they’re doing, you just know that it’s a route to nowhere,” he added. “It’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves. “I don’t know, we might get somewhere because it’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation,” said Daltrey. The iconic frontman made the comments during a recent appearance on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music 1 podcast. The Who legend Roger Daltrey says the ‘woke’ generation is creating a miserable world that serves to stifle the kind of creative freedom he enjoyed in the 60s.
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