Marlon Wayans is pushing back on political correctness and said that he will not change his comedy style to survive in this day and age and appease the current generation.
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Monty Python legend will host a new show on the channel from next year, claiming viewers should be “prepared to be shocked” by the topics he will cover.Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Cleese said: “There’s a massive amount of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press. In my new show, I’ll be talking about a lot of it.
You should be prepared to be shocked.”Asked how how his show with GB News came about, he said: “I was approached and I didn’t know who they were… And then I met one or two of the [GB News] people concerned and had dinner with them, and I liked them very much. And what they said was: ‘People say it’s the rightwing channel – it’s a free speech channel.’”Cleese went on to say that he would not be offered such a show by the BBC: “The BBC have not come to me and said: ‘Would you like to have some one-hour shows?’ And if they did, I would say: ‘Not on your nelly!’ Because I wouldn’t get five minutes into the first show before I’d been cancelled or censored.”Cleese will be working alongside existing GB News presenter Andrew Doyle, who previously wrote scripts for fictional news reporter Jonathan Pie.GB News is currently being investigated by media regulator Ofcom over whether its claims about the impact of the Covid vaccines breached the broadcasting code.Asked whether free speech should be granted to those spreading misinformation about health-related issues, Cleese said: “If there’s a factual response to something like that, then that should be made.“That’s the job, to put the facts out there, and then to have opinions slightly separate and have a proper argument about it, but not to try to avoid a public debate.”At the end of last year, Cleese said he was planning on
.Marlon Wayans is pushing back on political correctness and said that he will not change his comedy style to survive in this day and age and appease the current generation.
There’s no show on Saturday for the planned “When We Were Young” music festival in Las Vegas.
Watch Below: Abbie Chatfield hits out at internet misogynist Andrew TateIn comments provided to The Daily Telegraph, the 28-year-old Bachelor contestant turned TV and radio host said that Sandilands, 51, should have been out of a job long ago following years of polarising commentary. “I have no idea how he hasn’t been cancelled”, Chatfield told the publication. “I don’t know why he’s not at least being reprimanded. I don’t know why advertisers still align.”In the years since he stepped up as co-host of the Kyle and Jacki O show in 2004, Kyle has found himself no stranger to many a controversy, most recently referring to Monkeypox as “the big gay disease floating around”. “It’s as baffling to me as it is to everyone else.
comments he made regarding cancel culture, in which he eloquently stated it was more about ‘accountability. ’Also in the highly-praised interview with Times Radio, the Eurovision broadcaster was quizzed on author JK Rowling’s views on the transgender community, but Graham simply suggested speaking to actual trans people who have experience with such matters.
J.K. Rowling.During an appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Tuesday (October 11), the presenter discussed his views on cancel culture with interviewer Mariella Frostrup.Norton said: “You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about cancel culture and you think, ‘In what world are you cancelled?’ I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled? I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be ‘accountability’.”When asked about how that applies to Rowling, who is described as facing “anger, rage and attempts at censorship” for her views on transgender people, Norton replied: “What I feel weird about this is when I’m asked about it, then I become part of this discussion.One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen.
British presenting royalty Graham Norton has left Twitter soon after Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling criticized him over comments about transgender people made in a recent interview.
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has opened up about his feelings on ‘cancel culture’, and his reasons for quitting Twitter after a controversial post back in 2020.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to mark the release of their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, the frontman discussed deactivating his Twitter account back in 2020 following backlash to a Tweet he made after the death of George Floyd.Following Floyd’s death at the hands of policeman in the US and the subsequent public outcry and growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, Healy Tweeted: “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.”The post also shared the video to The 1975’s single ‘Love It If We Made It’, which features the lyrics “selling melanin and then suffocate the black men / Start with misdemeanours and we’ll make a business out of them“. Many Twitter users then accused Healy of appropriating Black Lives Matter to sell and promote his own music, before he apologised for any upset and deleted his account.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read, Healy told us: “By that point, my reaction in the room to all that Twitter shit was like, ‘Oh fuck off! You know that I’m not using this as an opportunity to monetise the half-a-pence I get paid for a fucking YouTube play’.
Graham Norton’s comments about cancel culture got people talking on social media this week.
Billy Bragg has responded to J.K. Rowling after the Harry Potter author accused the musician of “misogyny” for voicing his support of Graham Norton’s views on transgender rights.Yesterday (October 13), Bragg shared a clip of Norton discussing ‘cancel culture’ and trans rights at the recent Cheltenham Literature Festival.“Norton really good here on John Cleese, telling him that ‘cancel culture’ is just accountability, and JK Rowling, suggesting that the media talk directly to trans teens and their parents rather than merely amplifying the takes of a celebrity,” Bragg wrote on Twitter to accompany the clip.Norton really good here on John Cleese, telling him that ‘cancel culture’ is just accountability, and JK Rowling, suggesting that the media talk directly to trans teens and their parents rather than merely amplifying the takes of a celebrity.
sit-down interview with Radio Times posted Wednesday, the late night host and television fixture railed on “Monty Python” icon John Cleese for not getting with the times and deriding so-called “cancel culture.” “John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can’t say, and I just think it must be very hard to be a man of a certain age who’s been able to say whatever he liked for years, and now, suddenly, there’s some accountability,” Norton told Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.” It’s free speech but not consequence-free.”Cleese has been very vocal, particularly in the last year, about his qualms with being held accountable for his words and opinions, telling Fox News this summer that wokeness has had a “disastrous” impact on comedy and that “if you’re worried about offending people and constantly thinking about that, you’re not going to be very creative.”Cleese now has a series headed to the U.K.’s conservative, anti-cancel culture GB News station in 2023, in which he’s said he’ll be collaborating with satirist Andrew Doyle and encouraging “proper argument.”“You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about ‘cancel culture,’ and you think: In what world are you cancelled?” Norton said of the hot-button phenomenon. “I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled.”The fix is to change the way we talk about “cancel culture” in the first place, he added.
“cancel culture” on colleges Monday, with one expert analogizing the so-called phenomenon to “McCarthyism,” while the other suggested it was a “conservative” myth.The war of words transpired on Monday’s show during a segment on cancel culture called “You Can’t Say That,” Fox News reported.“People are looking over their shoulders and watching their words out of fear of someone pointing a finger publicly and saying ‘You can’t say that!'” declared the 72-year-old television host, whose real name is Philip McGraw. The Oklahoman entertainer further compared cancel culture to a “mob mentality” that results in people getting “banished from society forever.” McGraw then brought on two experts to debate the topic: the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Greg Lukianoff and Shaun Harper, Executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.“I have never seen anything like it in my career than I’ve seen over the last two years,” exclaimed Lukianoff, who had Zoomed into the show.
Experts sparred over cancel culture on Dr. Phil Monday, with one saying things are worse now than during "the Red Scare, McCarthyism" and another claiming college classrooms are "extremely conservative." Phil McGraw, better known as Dr.
TV and radio show. The Monty Python star revealed that he will be hosting a new one-hour programme on the channel during an appearance on BBC Radio Four today. The 82-year-old added that he was drawn to the new job because he sees GB News as a “free speech channel”.