Overview

• Cleese accused BBC comedy gatekeepers of stifling humor through committee reviews and what he called woke censorship.
• Speaking on stage in Bristol, he said scripts now face “a f***ing committee” and argued “there has been nothing funny since The Office.”
• He said he will not submit future projects to the BBC, blaming a bureaucratic process that he says “does not begin to work.”
• He is assembling a new Fawlty Towers stage show drawn from classic episodes including The Psychiatrist and The Kipper and The Corpse.
• He plans a book on how to write comedy and contends the problem lies with the “executive classes,” not a lack of comic talent.