00:08:39.940He could be a popular counter-culture icon, loved by conservatives and liberals alike for being hilarious,
00:08:45.040but also enjoy the benefits of a strong, stable, homogenous culture.0.99
00:08:48.640Now he's an old man staring at a desolate wasteland where London is majority non-white,1.00
00:08:53.800everyone is suspicious, the hamlets and villages are economic dead zones,1.00
00:08:57.960every week there's a new group you're not allowed to make fun of,
00:09:00.620no one has a sense of humor anymore,0.99
00:09:02.100little girls are being sold as sex slaves by your own politicians,0.96
00:09:05.860women are being harassed in the streets,0.99
00:09:07.400and white men are all suspicious and surly over their lowered living standards.
00:09:10.840The sinking realization that the world he made fun of,
00:09:13.620beloved more than anything, is gone forever and will never come back.
00:09:17.140and the horrifying suspicion that his own counterculture irreverence may have helped
00:09:21.440kill it. So he impotently gripes on Twitter and wonders where the laughter went. When did the joke
00:09:27.200stop? Where are those wonderful, repressed and uptight conservatives? And so this obviously
00:09:34.160sort of gets to the heart of the issue. The question is, you know, how true is this? How
00:09:39.880accurate is this? Is this something that John Cleese is coming to realize late in his life
00:09:45.160Or is his current anti-establishment stance a continuation of his previously held anti-establishment position?
00:09:53.580And we'll get into The Life of Brian, the controversy of this fairly anti-Christian film when he came out in the late 70s, 1979.
00:10:02.520We'll get into his past and just how much truth there is to this post in particular.
00:10:08.540The idea that he himself did sort of existential damage to the culture of Britain that led to the circumstances that they now find themselves in.
00:10:25.000I don't know if it's that extreme, but I think there is a lesson to be learned here, and we'll get into all of it.
00:13:16.520In 2018, Shane Allen, the BBC's then director of comedy, said the corporation should never, would never commission a comedy show made by, quote, six Oxbridge white blokes, such as the Pythons, five of whom went to Oxbridge.0.88
00:13:30.840Cleese first met his Flying Circus writing partner, the late Graham Chapman, at the Cambridge Footlights.
00:13:37.360Cleese laughs bitterly at this, quote, I had lunch about three months ago with two BBC people.
00:13:42.440One worked for the comedy department and he had to leave early.
00:13:45.080He obviously couldn't learn anything from someone who'd appeared on the Frost Report.
00:13:50.260So he's basically saying, yeah, he had to leave.
00:13:51.960I mean, he couldn't learn anything from me, an iconic comedic figure who, you know, was famous before he was born and worked on Monty Python.1.00
00:14:03.440And the other one was a complete idiot.0.99
00:14:04.920And you can print that because I want to stir things up.1.00
00:14:06.780So this was a year ago. He was already getting kind of pissed off at the way that himself and white men in general were being disrespected to the detriment of the BBC and comedy and the quality that they were producing.
00:14:20.480It's clear that he does indeed. I'm certainly not working with the BBC again because they're hopeless, he continues.
00:14:25.020They forget that their job is to commission the best possible programs and instead they want to get into social engineering.
00:14:31.620I can get cross about it because I think the BBC used to be so good for so long and then it got
00:14:36.480changed by John Burt, the BBC's director general from 1992 to 2000 into bureaucracy and everything
00:14:43.700has followed since. But the British public deserve better than this. This paragraph I think is super
00:14:48.680interesting. He mentioned social engineering again. In fact, this was in 2025. In 2026,
00:14:58.200He accused BBC of social engineering after cutting a blackface sketch from that Mitchell and Webb look.
00:15:04.200John Cleese is unhappy with BBC for removing sketches from a comedy series.
00:15:07.900BBC confirmed earlier this week, and again, this I believe was September 2026,
00:15:12.200just a week ago or so, that jokes featured in David Mitchell and Robert Webb's show
00:15:17.900had been cut, ahead of it being restored to iPlayer for its 20th anniversary.
00:15:20.820As many as 11 sketches were removed, including a self-referential skit
00:15:25.260in which Mitchell and Webb joke about the appropriateness of blackface while in blackface.
00:15:28.880Of course, the headline, they cut a blackface thing and John Cleese is mad, probably because
00:15:33.040he's a racist would be the underlying sense of that. And so John Cleese responds, if the BBC
00:15:37.420could prioritize making great programs ahead of social engineering, they might be worth the
00:15:41.440licensing fee. So again, social engineering, he understands the corruption of the BBC,
00:15:46.280he understands. But going back to this paragraph, there are two things that I think
00:15:50.880are interesting. One, he blames it on bureaucracy. If you've ever watched Monty Python, you know
00:15:56.740a massive amount of their skits were about bureaucracy. There's a classic skit where
00:16:03.080they're trying to deliver an oven and you have just a line of guys in tan overcoats that are
00:16:09.660the bureaucrats that are in line and it just takes forever. There was a lot of comedy about
00:16:15.020bureaucracy. At that time, just like you had the Beatles writing songs about the tax man,
00:16:21.380the UK at the time was overwhelmed with bureaucracy and overregulation and governmental
00:16:26.860intervention. And so him bringing that to the current day, I think may be his attempt to
00:16:34.840rationalize what he's seeing in the framework that he grew up in and that he became an adult in.
00:16:41.880Same idea where he blames John Burt, the BBC director general from 1992 to 2000.
00:16:47.560I feel like this is a, my dad was getting on me earlier about talking about boomers as a class.
00:16:55.200I talk about boomers in a metaphysical sense.
00:16:57.620The spiritual boomer archetype, the platonic boomer is who I'm referring to.0.66
00:17:03.880Not you. If you're a boomer, I love you. You're great.
00:17:06.540My parents are boomers. They're fantastic.
00:17:08.320my dad might be farther into the conspiracy world than I am at this point so no offense to boomers0.68
00:17:15.940if I'm if you're a boomer watching this I'm not talking about you okay so let's relax but for the
00:17:20.960sake of explanation and using the vernacular this is like boomer to a t there's a there's a
00:17:27.960metaphysical boomer tendency to want to identify a person and say this is their fault this person
00:17:35.840was in charge of the BBC from 1992 to 2000. Therefore, it's his fault. It's his fault that
00:17:43.200the BBC is no longer hiring white guys. The reality is much more expansive and much more0.95
00:17:49.880difficult to pin down and much more nebulous. The reality is that there is a deliberate moving of
00:17:57.720the culture towards this anti-white, socialistic, communistic, you know what it is. I mean, this0.72
00:18:07.360deconstructionist mindset that's really anti-white at the end of the day, no matter what they0.89
00:18:13.900do, that's the thing that it conforms to. And yet he can't really recognize that. And I don't know0.62
00:18:20.060why. And we'll see more examples of this or this tendency, because later we'll get into
00:18:25.620some contradictions in his seemingly right word, based word, bent. But I think these two things
00:18:35.340are important to recognize, that this concept that it's bureaucracy, that what happened was
00:18:41.000it became too bureaucratic. This is a holdover from how he grew up, and it's also, I believe,
00:18:47.420an easy and convenient kind of thing to point to and say, ah, that's the problem. When in reality,
00:18:52.080I think there is an ideological shift that's going on underneath the surface that may be facilitated by the bureaucracy.
00:18:58.320The bureaucratic processes may just naturally conform to the ideology that is supplanting the previous liberal conservative, you know, conservative liberality of the classical UK culture.
00:19:15.720It is being facilitated by the overabundance of bureaucracy, but that's not what's causing it. That's not the issue. The guy who spent eight years in charge of the BBC 25 years ago, it's not his fault either. This is a continuum of ideological shift that is happening on purpose and deliberately. I think you get it.
00:19:41.020So this copy pasta, this classic meme about John Cleese was posted in 2019. So around that time
00:19:53.140in that post was probably a reaction to this story from Metro. What did John Cleese say about
00:19:58.020London on Twitter as he attacks the city twice? He attacked the city of London like Godzilla.
00:20:03.720look how mad look how mad and angry and mean he looks you know the clown the the brilliant0.97
00:20:11.380world famous clown who's very funny and silly look they found a picture that makes him look0.93
00:20:15.820just racist didn't they it's amazing veteran comedy actor and Monty Python alum so this is 20190.73
00:20:22.660Cleese fired off a tweet in which he criticized London and its multiculturalism so he said this
00:20:29.560Some years ago, I opined that London was not really an English city anymore.1.00
00:20:33.300Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation, so there must be some truth in it.0.63
00:20:39.540I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU.
00:21:28.160To consider that what I like about spending time in Nevis, Nevis has excellent race relations, a very well-educated population, no sign of political correctness, no sign of Rupert Murdoch, those big bad right-wingers, conscientious lawyers, a relaxed and humorous lifestyle, a deep love of cricket, a complete lack of knife crime, and of course, wonderful weather.
00:21:47.520And the icing on the cake is that Nevis is not the world center for Russian dirty money laundering.
00:21:52.040Okay, two things here you may recognize and that you'll see crop up in later examples of his political evolution.
00:21:59.740One is Rupert Murdoch, the right wing, the fear of being called racist still, and the Russian angle.
00:22:14.760he is very biased against the right wing again he's sort of just like the bureaucracy thing he's
00:22:20.860holding on to this idea that he's like the rebel the fighting against the big bad nazis
00:22:26.780on the right wing it's like dude your country's being taken over demographically in terms of race
00:22:36.340and ethnicity yes culture as well comes along with it but that's not really the issue and the
00:22:42.640unwillingness to address the issue means you're never going to address the issue means you're
00:22:46.840never going to actually fix the issue and the Russia thing it's just it's emblematic
00:22:52.140it's emblematic of this idea that he doesn't think the authorities are doing this on purpose
00:23:01.240and this sort of gets to the heart of it and he's got tweet after tweet saying things like
00:23:07.360labor is burying their heads in the sand or the BBC you know it was this guy that was its commissioner
00:23:13.380in 2000 or you know they're just they don't understand how to make good movies you know
00:23:19.600it's just this belief in the institutions and the system and and the just he seems bewildered
00:23:25.880that the people in charge of these institutions are doing such a bad job the key thing to
00:23:31.520understand is they're doing a fantastic job by their own metrics they're doing exactly what
00:23:36.740they should be doing. These are the desired outcomes. The BBC is not, you know, failing to
00:23:44.520make good comedy. They're deliberately excluding the talented comedy writers because of their race,
00:23:50.420because they're racist against white guys, because they're trying to eradicate white people0.98
00:23:55.940slowly but surely from media entirely. As they eradicate your population from the island,0.99
00:24:01.440they're erasing you in real time this is kind of a big deal you should understand that it's on
00:24:08.720purpose and not an accident and not a consequence of bureaucratic process other than the bureaucratic
00:24:14.820processes are directed deliberately by the people in charge for the ends of total cultural and racial
00:24:24.040eradication of the british populace so the russia thing is just simple uh emblematic of this the
00:24:31.760russia thing is emblematic of the fact that like i don't think he knows that zelinski canceled
00:24:39.040elections and is rounding up his people by throwing them in vans and sending them to the
00:24:44.340front lines to die that the ukrainian population is less than half what it was when the war started
00:24:50.900And at the levels it was in like 1910 at this point that the country of Ukraine is being systematically hollowed out and eradicated.
00:24:58.960The population is disintegrating in real time as the dictatorial, unelected tyrant who banned the Russian church there and banned every opposition political party and every news outlet owned by the opposition political parties.0.94
00:25:21.640Volodymyr Zelensky a gay corrupt drug addict like he doesn't get that he doesn't know that he still0.92
00:25:29.720is thinking in terms of the empire versus the nazis i guess and putin is the nazis in this0.99
00:25:37.480case and the empire isn't the british empire it's the globo homo nato empire but it's like he can0.93
00:25:45.220see that these things are tangibly destroying the thing that he loves the most. They are0.95
00:25:51.820hollowing out and deconstructing his homeland. He gets that, but he doesn't really get it. But
00:26:02.700he doesn't understand it's on purpose and by design and not an accident. But I think he will.
00:26:09.360So, this goes all the way back to 2011.
00:26:13.340Londoners hit back as Cleese says city is no longer English.
00:27:03.000I mean, they said we're the most cosmopolitan city.
00:27:05.000But it doesn't feel English. I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walked down the King's Road and said to me, well, where are all the English people? And I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, well, what's going on?
00:27:24.160what is going on indeed so of course he got in a lot of hot water for that
00:27:30.840probably unexpectedly since this was back in 2011 before people were really canceled like this
00:27:39.120he may have been one of the first people in 2011 that's that's pretty far back to have this amount
00:27:44.520of fury for somebody simply observing that the culture of england was diminishing as
00:27:50.480the english population of london was replaced with foreigners they said we're the most cosmopolitan
00:27:57.540city on earth but it doesn't feel english talks about his californian friend mayor boris johnson
00:28:02.060criticized clee's comment saying we should celebrate the capital's diversity spokesman
00:28:05.900for the mayor said if the king's road is jam-packed with visiting foreign tourists then
00:28:08.880that's something we should celebrate right downplaying it acting like his criticisms
00:28:14.300aren't valid sort of gaslighting what all of the tourists all of the wonderful visitors we have
00:28:20.220as they systematically replace the population.
00:34:40.740I think it's ridiculous to suggest that a person with a penis is a woman in Creasy's world where we, quote, must recognize various identities.0.99
00:34:54.260You either self-censor or you keep shtum or face changes to the law designed to shut you up.0.98
00:35:00.180This week, Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, waded into the free speech debate at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, bringing her familiar brand of student politics with her. Creasy told the audience that free speech must be curtailed when it, quote, stops somebody else's view from being heard.
00:35:19.7801984 Orwellian doublespeak. You have to be silenced because your speech silences others.
00:35:27.600somebody's speech must be curtailed if it stops somebody else's view from being hurt that
00:35:36.040doesn't make any sense she elaborated saying we should recognize quote the impact and the
00:35:43.160context in which people have conversation and debate again incrementalism and that's
00:35:48.080what defines this entire process incrementalism the incremental degradation of the previously
00:35:53.840rather robust Christian culture. And over a very quick period of time, you'll see,0.95
00:35:59.680we'll show you debates and videos from 1979 that show how Christian it was and how different it was
00:36:07.500from today. However, that just emphasizes how rapidly it is disintegrating and being replaced
00:36:14.560with nothing really. And that, that at the end of the day is the point of this is that,
00:36:20.840Well, we'll get we'll get to it that you can't just eradicate Christianity and expect postmodern liberalism to take its place. You have to have fundamental values. You have to have something superlative, something intangible to base and ground your culture in your beliefs and your ideology.
00:36:47.600Otherwise, you are just opening up a giant vacuum for another more aggressive, more ambitious religion to take its place.1.00
00:46:43.300We have come full circle, having abolished the requirement for students to be members of the Church of England before they could graduate.
00:46:49.520Caius College Cambridge now mandates quasi-religious DEI dogma. As a new orthodoxy,
00:46:56.540I hope someone is brave enough to dissent. It will be an interesting test of the new heresy
00:47:02.780threshold. So at Caius College Cambridge, attendance of these 1.5 hour long inclusivity
00:47:09.000training sessions are now mandatory for all undergrads. The sessions will be delivered by
00:47:13.380Stop Hate UK who everybody listening to my voice should know as a font of evil. These sessions
00:47:20.840delivered by Stop Hate UK who erroneously state that gender identity is a protected characteristic
00:47:26.140and that Islamophobia is a crime. One would hope these are honest mistakes and they will be
00:47:32.400correcting them. I just, yeah, maybe, maybe it's an honest mistake, or maybe it is repeated
00:47:43.800every time because it is a fundamental and core aspect of their entire ideological value set.
00:47:52.620Maybe this is the point of multiculturalism. So, again, this idea, rather, going back here,
00:48:02.400That we've come full circle. It's not full circle, exactly. You are in an intermediate stage between Christianity and Islam. Multiculturalism is the wrecking ball to destroy Christianity. It's also the shield protecting Islam as it builds strength and establishes a foothold in your country.
00:48:22.560it both treats christianity as bigoted and hateful and to be destroyed it actually replaces it0.98
00:48:31.340colleges that used to have an ideological component a you know religious indoctrination
00:48:37.760requirement that you had to be a member of the church of england meaning you had to
00:48:41.520attend the church and fulfill the basic requirements of a church member that's been
00:48:47.080replaced directly in a one-to-one fashion with indoctrination into a different value set into a
00:48:53.000different religion in effect in reality like in form and function this is a different moral code
00:49:01.500a different set of values that is like a mockery or a parody of christian values it's taking some
00:49:09.500christian values like empathy and sympathy and mercy and loving your enemies and it's separating
00:49:16.960that from all of the other Christian values. It's isolating that, allowing that alone to0.63
00:49:24.340represent, you know, what their culture is, remove all of the requirements of Christianity,
00:49:29.920take the liberalities of Christianity, and then use that as an entryway for something0.91
00:49:37.080like Islamists to take over. And so this is the understanding that I think is lacking0.78
00:49:48.520from people like John Cleese, that he still, I think, believes his lampooning and diminishing
00:49:57.060of the Christian faith was good, was similar to what he's doing now in the same way that he0.89
00:50:03.380is railing against the bad aspects of Islam. He once railed against the bad aspect, the
00:50:13.180authoritarian nature of Christianity. But these are two very different things. They may share
00:50:20.240to some degree authoritarianism as a concept, but to a much, much lesser degree in Christianity,0.99
00:50:28.980everybody has to admit, than Islam in its violent enforcement and its willingness to0.84
00:50:36.320abandon even the pretense of things like free speech in order to silence its critics.0.97
00:50:44.140And yet, they don't seem to recognize that it was Christianity that was the bulwark against0.58
00:50:52.960multiculturalism first, but Islam through the back door. He still thinks it was the0.80
00:51:01.540right thing to do, probably, to stand up against the authoritarianism. And he would probably
00:51:07.260justify that by saying, well, if you like what I'm doing now with Islam, you should have liked0.78
00:51:11.040what I did with Christianity. That's just not how the world works. You can't replace a1.00
00:51:17.880full-fledged ideological framework with something like multiculturalism and expected to maintain the
00:51:26.860same hold it has over the culture the same continuity you're replacing it with something
00:51:33.620utterly baseless and fraudulent and malleable something that is based on feelings and offense
00:51:42.720and is actually, at the end of the day, exclusively opposed to the indigenous traditional culture0.99
00:51:52.900while welcoming much, much more radically illiberal qualities of Muslims or even Jews
01:01:13.500And like the gentleman in yellow noted, if somebody with no knowledge of Christianity saw this,
01:01:19.980what would their feeling be coming away from it? And it would be of mockery and derision.
01:01:24.880And when they heard the story of some miraculous occurrence, if they'd seen Life of Brian first,1.00
01:01:30.920they'd be thinking, oh, this is just like that scene where the dumb guy does the stupid thing,1.00
01:01:34.180right? It is tainting the interpretation of this stuff for people that aren't Christian.1.00
01:01:40.740It's undermining it subtly, but importantly, it doesn't ever affirm it to offset the mockery.
01:01:47.700And what I mean by that is if you watch something like a Woody Allen movie, something, you know, a movie that has Judaism as a, you know, topic, a theme that's explored, you'll see a lot of mockery of Jews.
01:02:04.300You'll see like self-mockery, mockery of the, you know, the Jewish characteristics, but, you know, Seinfeld, something like that, but especially with something like Woody Allen, you'd always have an offsetting scene of the beauty and, you know, familial aspects of Judaism.
01:02:22.220It was always, you know, you'd mock it, but then you'd reaffirm it.
01:02:25.660You'd say, yeah, this is a little bit silly, but, you know, don't forget that it's actually important and good.
01:02:30.880if you'd had that in life of brian i don't think it would be nearly as offensive i think if you had
01:02:37.840just a scene or two you know or just a sense that okay over here we're being silly we're mocking
01:02:44.080this it's it's goofy but there can be some sort of underlying theme throughout that's like yeah
01:02:51.420but over there something actually genuinely miraculous and amazing is going on you might
01:02:56.800be missing out on it, but that way somebody who either was doubting Christianity or questioning
01:03:02.000Christianity or didn't know Christianity could watch it, laugh at the silliness, understand the
01:03:08.300references maybe, and think, oh, I thought that same thing. I had that same idea. What if that0.93
01:03:13.020happened? You know, how silly would that be? You could have those same ideas, but still at the same0.86
01:03:17.880time experience sort of, you know, well, what's happening over there with the real Jesus? You
01:03:23.600Brian's silly, that's great, but over there you should see Jesus doing something and it should be presented in a way that is beautiful and good and affirming just to offset it.0.96
01:03:35.240So, obviously you can't go back in time, but I think this defines why this is more than just, well, we're just being silly.
01:03:46.020it's because the attitude towards the Christian mythos, the Christian story, the story of the
01:03:54.040Gospels, was never offset by any sort of sincere appreciation. That's my take anyway, and I just
01:04:02.060noticed that when other religions are mocked in popular media, it's almost always paired
01:04:09.120with a corresponding affirmation of that. It's silly, but it's important. It might look kind of
01:04:15.540goofy, but actually, you know, it's, it's home and it's comfort, right? Something just offsetting
01:04:22.580the mockery and derision can go a long way. And I think the Christians fail to make that argument1.00
01:04:29.940in this. That's why I think, you know, there's like, ah, it's just a bad movie and you're bad1.00
01:04:34.220for saying it and you're just making people question us. And it's really just almost reaffirming
01:04:38.600the assertion from John Cleese that, well, I'm just trying to mock authority and here's the
01:04:44.820authority telling me you're not allowed to do that. It's not a good argument. The argument
01:04:49.140should be the fact that you're able to mock the authority is one of the great gifts and values
01:04:54.900of Christianity. So if you're going to mock it, you should also show some appreciation for the
01:04:59.740fact you can mock it. You see what I'm saying? Do you know what I mean? I hope so. So I'll go
01:05:04.820to two more quick videos. What do you know? I've run over it. What do you know? We're already an
01:05:08.180hour in and I haven't finished. Who would have thunk? But I think you'll like these two. These
01:05:13.560from the Dick Cavett show, sort of the same era, the same publicity tour when Life of
01:05:19.040Brian came out. And of course, the controversy is that this movie is pretty clearly parodying
01:05:26.220and to some degree mocking Christ. And yet here's how this question is asked by Dick Cavett
01:05:33.460at the time. I don't know how many weeks ago it was. I heard the radio announcement of something
01:05:41.080And it sounded in its tone as if there had been an outbreak of World War II or something.
01:05:46.360And it had to do with outraged religious groups that had seen the film.