John Cleese interview on Python, career, and Trump

[Pcdunn]

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/q-and-a/a50404/john-cleese-interview-monty-python-donald-trump/

Pretty interesting and insightful talk from the tall guy in the Monty Python group. An "Esquire" interview.

[Robert]

"When Gingrich was the Speaker of the House, he said that there could be no friendships across the aisle, and I think that, combined with Fox News, are the two most harmful things that have happened to America in the past 20 years."

He must have missed 9/11.

[jason_c]

Thanks for the link. Im a fan of Cleese and almost everything Python.

John Cleese though is a mentalist. He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake. That's is not necessarily meant as a criticism of him. The world is a better place for being populated by idiosyncratic nutters. I respect his opinions on comedy. Everything else he opines on, not so much. I would get as much wisdom listening to my cat as I would listening to John Cleese.

[Harry D]

John Cleese though is a mentalist. He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake.

Why is that nutty?

[Robert]

I guess he'll be coming back as a crab so that his walk will be even sillier.

[Steadmund Brand]

Thanks for the link. Im a fan of Cleese and almost everything Python.

John Cleese though is a mentalist. He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake. That's is not necessarily meant as a criticism of him. The world is a better place for being populated by idiosyncratic nutters. I respect his opinions on comedy. Everything else he opines on, not so much. I would get as much wisdom listening to my cat as I would listening to John Cleese.

I don't understand how "He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake" makes him a nutter.....how is that crazier then "eternal life because you picked the right God" or going to hell for masturbating....seriously.....I'm not saying I agree with Mr. Cleese....but that argument just doesn't hold water....

Steadmund Brand

[Robert]

Stead, just don't tell the environmentalists about this - people will have to put out their souls to be recycled and there'll be a fine if they don't.

[Pcdunn]

Steadman has a point, though. Many people around the world believe in reincarnation, as a tenet of their faith. To say that one thing makes them "nutty" because it isn't your belief is a bit extreme. Live and let live, I say. (Or live and let relive, as the case may be...)

[Robert]

Gives a whole new dimension to telling the wife "I'll do it when I get round to it."

[Abby Normal]

I guess he'll be coming back as a crab so that his walk will be even sillier.

LOL.
or a drunk crane. Very funny and interesting character!!!

[GUT]

I don't understand how "He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake" makes him a nutter.....how is that crazier then "eternal life because you picked the right God" or going to hell for masturbating....seriously.....I'm not saying I agree with Mr. Cleese....but that argument just doesn't hold water....

Steadmund Brand

Well put.

I'm not a reincarnationist, but if I was I'd want to come back as a pet in my house.

[Pcdunn]

Well put.

I'm not a reincarnationist, but if I was I'd want to come back as a pet in my house.

Too true! Our friends say that about us and our cats!

[GUT]

Too true! Our friends say that about us and our cats!

It's mainly dogs here, but yep even the cat, goldfish or bird have a great life.

[jason_c]

I don't understand how "He believes in reincarnation for goodness sake" makes him a nutter.....how is that crazier then "eternal life because you picked the right God" or going to hell for masturbating....seriously.....I'm not saying I agree with Mr. Cleese....but that argument just doesn't hold water....

Steadmund Brand

I didn't mean to suggest that a belief in reincarnation alone makes him a nutter. That's just one of a number of things about Cleese that makes me dubious of anything he says. My admiration of John Cleese took a hit when he lost money in a costly divorce and started to whore himself around in the media. The man is basically a formerly talented comedian whose opinion on comedy between 1965-1980 is of some interest. His opinion on anything else should be of no more interest or importance than the opinion of Joe Bloggs on recent developments in nuclear physics.

[The Good Michael]

I agree with Cleese here and don't care about reincarnation beliefs or any of that supernatural nonsense that anyone eschews logic for. He uses common sense here. He always has. I do think he's a bit of a jerk, however, but at 77, a lot of people just tell it like it is and there are no fears of repercussion.

Mike