We’ve known for ages that Cleese is a dick. There’s a reason he’s so good at playing one. But isn’t it time we stopped giving Idle a pass? This guy has been acting like a pompous asshole for decades.

It works when you realize that Reed Richards was only a handful of bad days away from being an F4 villain. 

To be fair while Cleese is a pompous arse, I do tend to eye roll whenever I hear Eric Idle plead poverty.

And the time before that.

We should not be hiring combat veterans to be police.

an A Fish Called Wanda musical

I do not agree with the political views Cleese has expressed with regard to “cancel culture” or anything else at all, but let’s put the brakes on before we start making Idle out to be some sort of hero here. This whole thing started because he is complaining about not having enough money, including a house he sold for…

As long as the replacement for that isn’t his shitty modern day Ultimate FF-inspired characterization.

Fortunately, Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Blackpool Rock Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Brrroooo Norman Michael (rings bell) (blows whistle) Edward (sounds car horn) (does train impersonation) (sounds buzzer) Thomas Moo... (sings) ‘We’ll keep a welcome in the...’ (fires gun) William (makes silly noise)…

He probably did not resigned because he did anything wrong or was going to face any punishment.

As someone pointed out a few days ago, this stuff has a limited shelf life. How many more times can you repurpose 40-50 year old material? MST3K is putting out new material, and even they couldn’t get enough money on their most recent kickstarter to fund a new season. Kids in the Hall aren’t getting a second season on…

This is why the whole multiverse thing is a lead weight around the neck of Marvel.

Nothing matters, there are infinite versions of everyone. There’s no peril or dramatic tension, nothing has consequence.

Neil Innes wrote all the music for the Rutles and wound up having to sue Idle to get any SPAMALOT money after Idle used his music there, too, so I don’t imagine the Neil Innes estate will be too keen to let Eric go out and perform his stuff.

Hey Owen,

It’s not that they should avoid it, it’s that this is literally the only part of any story involving him that they have an ounce of interest in. Somehow an article purportedly about Python’s financial state of affairs and general dislike between two of its members ends with two full paragraphs about Cleese’s politics.…

Palin is a saint 

This makes it especially odd then that Cleese and Idle toured together just a few years ago. They made it clear it was strictly for financial reasons, as Cleese was on his 19th divorce and Idle was broke as well, but still...

I hate it when Grandpa and Grampa fight.

Yeah. Don’t get me wrong, I am dismayed by Cleese (a very funny man who I loved when I was young) turning into one of these d-bags who always goes on and on about cancel culture. But this place has gotten really dumb about this stuff. Rest assured any article they run where Cleese is named will immediately turn into a…