RE: John Cleese (and imperialist humour)

["Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed Juan.  Others seem to have misunderstood John Cleese's humour and
taken him for the racist chauvinist-pig-ignorant charactes he plays.  Just
as the often misunderstood humour of Johnny Speight's character Alf Garnet
who was portrayed as the pig-ignorant, anti-trade union, chauvinist etc etc
resident of the London east end.

Paddy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Juan Fajardo
> Sent: 29 May 2003 06:08
> To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: John Cleese (and imperialist humour)
>
>
> And part of the joke is how odious and narrow-mindedly provincial Basil
> and Sibyl are, which all come into play to build to a riotous climax in
> the "Germans" episode in which Basil manages to say or do something
> offensive about, aside from the infinitely patient Manuel, blacks,
> Canadians, the Japanese, women, nurses, and Germans.  As Sybil so
> eloquently put it, he's "either pawing at the guests and licking their
> boots, or spitting venom at them like some Benzedrine puff-adder."
> Either way, he always gets his come-uppance in the end.
>
> - Juan
>
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