John Cleese Is Clearly Not a Fan of Cancel Culture

Althouse: "I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."

I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an
impersonation of Hitler.

I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021

In case you can’t figure it out (and some of the respondents to this Tweet clearly couldn’t), Cleese is mocking cancel culture here. And he’s canceling himself to make a point of just how stupid it is.