Graham Norton urges John Cleese to take accountability as he slams ‘cancel culture’ rant | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Sharing his views, Graham Norton said the term “cancel culture” isn’t correct as he criticised John Cleese’s use of it in an interview today. The BBC chat show host said it “must be hard” for the likes of the 82-year-old to perhaps now tone down what they may have said freely for many years.
The 59-year-old said: “You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about cancel culture and you think, in what world are you cancelled?
“I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled?”
Graham went on to suggest that the word should be replaced with “accountability” instead.
He added to Times Radio: “John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can say and I just think it must be very hard to be a man of a certain age, who’s been able to say whatever you like for years, and now suddenly, there’s some accountability there.
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This week, John claimed he wouldn’t work for the BBC again as he believes he’d be “cancelled after five minutes”.
The actor made the comment during an interview on BBC Radio 4 following the news he will be joining GB News next year.
Speaking to Amol Rajan, he said: “The nice thing about talking to the GB News audience is they may not be used to hearing the sort of things I’ll be saying.
“But the only thing is, the BBC haven’t come to me and said, ‘Would you like to have one of our shows?’
“And if they did I would say, ‘Not on your nelly’ because I wouldn’t get five minutes into the show before I’d be cancelled or censored.”
Amol chimed in, saying: “Well, we’ve given you five minutes today and I can promise you you haven’t been censored yet.”
Taking to his Twitter after, John said: “I was amused that the moment I really criticised the BBC yesterday, the interview was brought to a rapid end.
“Before we had talked about the things we had planned to talk about ten minutes earlier.”
