The actor and comedian John Cleese have announced that starting in 2019, he will host his own GB News TV show.
The Fawlty Towers actor said on BBC Radio 4’s Today program that he will collaborate with satirist Andrew Doyle on the new program, which promotes “legitimate argument.”
On the channel, which debuted last year, Doyle is the host of Free Speech Nation right now.
The listeners for GB News “may not be used to hearing the sort of stuff I’ll be saying,” Cleese cautioned.
He gave Amol Rajan, the host, the explanation that “I was approached and I didn’t know who they were,” on Monday.
I am not very knowledgeable about contemporary television because I have largely given up on English television.
Then, he continued,
“I met one or two of the concerned individuals and had dinner with them. I really liked them.
“People say it’s a right-wing station, but it’s a free speech channel,” they claimed.
Cleese gained notoriety in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, before developing and portraying the beloved misanthropic hotel owner Basil Fawlty.
He revealed to Rajan that the show would not be commissioned today “because it’s six white folks, five of whom went to Oxbridge,” according to industry executives.
He continued by saying he had not been given the chance to return to the BBC, but if he did, his response would be, “Not on your nelly.”
Because I wouldn’t even begin the first show’s first five minutes before I was canceled or edited, he explained.
Cleese has been outspoken in his criticism of “woke” politics and the cancel culture in comedy. He postponed a speech at Cambridge University last year after a guest speaker was expelled for performing a Hitler imitation.
Later, he left an interview with the BBC because of what he called the “deception, dishonesty, and tone” of the discussion. Even though a BBC spokesman claimed the interview had been “fair and proper” at the time.
In June of last year, GB News debuted, becoming the first TV news startup in the UK in 30 years since Sky News’ debut.
Cleese questioned how much his soon-to-be new employer was “influenced by Russian interests” a few months earlier.
After the UK “sunk to the lowest intellectual level I can ever remember” during the Brexit debates, he said to Today that he had “sort of lost interest” in British politics in recent years.
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