Look, just for context, this quote was given to GB News, where Cleese hangs out these days. It’s worth understanding that he was pandering to the cheap seats when he said it. Literally all they do on that whole channel is moan about wokeness and what the Guardian said. That’s not to say it’s any less annoying but…

I honestly thought this had already been done. Surely at least there’s been a bootleg or a fancut or a film school project before now?

I don't think it's a cash grab, I think it sounds interesting.

Somebody always yells BUT TAIKA WAITITI! JAMES GUNN! whenever it’s suggested that Marvel movies aren’t particularly visionary (however much fun you get out of them) or that every aspect of their production might be unconditionally beholden to corporate interests.

Does anyone actually “direct” Marvel movies in anything beyond the most technical sense?

No ad breaks on the Beeb either, so “30 minute sitcom” does actually mean 6 eps ends up being around 180 minutes of content. You needed 8-9 eps to get to that amount in America at the time.

Seriously I have no idea what the point of this article is.

Pretty standard for the BBC!  6 eps a season for sitcoms.

Fawlty Towers is very funny but it’s also almost universally loved, and one pretty widely-accepted (including by Cleese himself, previously) reason for the near unanimous positive opinion it enjoys is the fact that it ended before it wore out it’s welcome.

1. Enjoy a show about nothing

I know what you did the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer before the summer b…

He said it was “not releasable”, he didn’t say it was “not releasable due to quality reasons”.

“Not releasable” could mean all kinds of things.

But guys, c’mon. Why do we always talk about these kinds of conversations as though they are themselves comic book lore, wherein we attribute villainous motives to one set of…

He never really lost it, did he?  Sure, it slows down, and sure, he has to simplify it all a bit, but the voice was always there, the dedication was always there, and you never felt like you had seen a ‘lesser’ Ozzy show, not really.

I do hope he’s got one last album in him. It’s always a shame when the more disposable stuff ends up accidentally being the final word. It would be nice if he did a final album with a specific intention of drawing a line under it. It wouldn’t even have to be a classic, being a summary musical testament would make it…

I think that there was always this weird disconnect between the cartoon theatrics and the real-life mental health struggles that made it seem like a parody: the barking at the moon and the prince of darkness schtick was extraordinarily camp even at the time, but it became dangerous and resonant when set against the…

The best thing about all this is that more and more movie watchers will move away from the idea that Hollywood, or even American cinema more generally (insofar as there’s a difference), needs to be central to their appreciation of cinema.

All cinema nerds get there eventually, and I’m grateful to the Academy, and to…

There really is this increasing conflation of terminology that makes me nervous because at some point I’m going to find myself calling for a more nuanced debate, specifically around more concise and specific terminology.

And I’ll be calling for that while also acutely aware that “calling for a more nuanced debate” is…

“Alleged abuser” surely?

He couldn’t be further from where he started.

What kind of maniac journalist is asking the cast of Freaks and Geeks if they’d return to a show in which they already looked too old for the show at the time it was made??