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The latest tweets from @JohnCleese. So it was no small disappointment a few weeks ago when John Cleese publicly defended J.K. Rowling’s transphobia in an open letter and took a depressingly familiar swipe at trans athletes on Twitter.
© Provided by The IndependentJohn Cleese has divided Twitter after posting a suicide joke about Donald Trump.
The Monty Python star shared his views on the US presidential election, which has now seen Joe Biden overtake Trump in numerous key states.
The incumbent president has repeatedly made unfounded claims that illegal votes have been counted since Tuesday (3 November).
It has also been reported that Trump's campaign team called Fox News head Rupert Murdoch to complain about the network’s decision to declare Joe Biden the winner in Arizona.
The president and his senior staff were said to be so enraged by the move that they attempted to get its owner to drop its formal projection for Biden.
Fox News is typically supportive of Trump and, in seeming reference to the reports, Cleese, 81, tweeted: 'I suspect Trump’s been dead for two days at least. Probably shot himself when Murdoch dumped him.'
However, immediately after sending the post, many criticised Cleese with some accusing him of going too far.
'I love your stuff sir, but I think this went a step too far. Suicide is not to be joked about, not even for Trump,' one person wrote, to which the Fawlty Towers actor responded: Then how about Hitler? That's worth a giggle, surely.'
In reply, another tweeter added: “If the intent is to prevent suicide and make it more accessible for people to get help, making the topic taboo, even to joke about, is doing more harm than good.”
Cleese clapped back: “I don't think taboo subjects really benefit anyone, do they?”
Several others, some of whom said they have had past experience with the subject of suicide, defended Cleese’s joke.
Um hi suicide is absolutely something that can be joked about especially as a way to help process feelings
please don’t stigmatize something that can help people deal with a huge amount of trauma
😬 sincerely, someone who had to deal intimately with someone else’s suicide
— Alex Baguette (@AlexDesignsIt) November 7, 2020No one commits suicide because of something a comedian says. They commit suicide because they're locked in a place that doesn't allow light to come through. Sony vegas pro crack for mac. We laugh at the darkness so that it doesn't defeat us.
— Pamela LaPier (@LapierPamela) November 7, 2020Talking about suicide does not infect others with desire to kill themselves. There was a time where knowing I had the option, saved my life. We can talk.
— ScreamingMeemie (@MeemieScreaming) November 7, 2020Hi, formerly suicidal person here (I got help). Suicide can be as much of a joke as farting. As others have pointed out, it's all about context.
— John Hennings (@JohnHennings3) November 7, 2020For confidential support with mental health or suicidal feelings, you can contact The Samaritans on their free, 24-hour phone support by calling 116 123 or emailing jo@samaritans.org.
John Cleese, famous for outraging millions in his Monty Python roles, is at it again. In a tweetstorm Sunday, the 81-year-old comedian defended J.K. Rowling and questioned aspects of transgender rights.
“Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?” Cleese tweeted in response to someone who asked why he couldn’t “just let people be who they want to be.”
He added later, “I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks.”
Cleese earlier signed a letter of support for “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who has similarly questioned the Twitter orthodoxy on transgender people.
Cleese wouldn’t back down, despite the firestorm of replies. “When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man’s body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman’s.
“Does that prove phobia?” he asked.
I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks
I just hope they're happy and that people treat them kindly
Right now I'm more focussed on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British Press, the revelations about police brutality… https://t.co/y6l33FBQNL
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020
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It's the complete lack of perspective that bothers me
Of course, that goes with a complete lack of a sense of humour
Heard a woke joke yet ? https://t.co/97Au5WjuGT
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020
Oh I do sympathy and support all the time, for most of the Third world. Except for Glasgow, of course
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I exclude all wokes, of course. I hope they fry in their own sanctimoniousness and narcissistic posturing
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The lord of the rings the battle for middle earth 2 for mac. Until they get a sense of perspective, that is… https://t.co/yfzfWDx7Az
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— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020