John Cleese Explains Why Comedians Don’t make Jokes About Muslims

John Cleese of Monty Python fame says that comedians don’t make jokes about Muslims because they’re afraid they’ll be killed.

Recently, British comedian and writer John Cleese discussed the irony of political correctness. Cleese argued that the concept was “condescending” based on the idea that it only allows jokes to be made about certain groups while implying others needed to be protected.

John Cleese, appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher, spoke of how political correctness is flawed as it implies that some groups are too “feeble” to “look after themselves”.

“It’s so awful isn’t it?” Cleese said. “It starts out as a halfway decent idea, and then it goes completely wrong.”

“Make jokes about Swedes and Germans and French and English and Canadians and Americans, why can’t we make jokes about Mexicans? Is it because they are so feeble that they can’t look after themselves?”

John Cleese, famous for his comedic troup Monty Python, appeared to agree with Bill Maher about the hypocrisy of Liberals, who argue that it is not politically correct to criticize Muslims despite heavily criticizing fundamentalist Christians.

“It’s very very condescending there.”

Cleese then asked Maher, “Who are the people you can’t make jokes about?”

To which Maher responded with “Muslims” before challenging the comedian to try and “see what your Twitter feed says”

A laughing Cleese responds, “That’s not saying that you can’t, it just means that they’ll kill you. Theoretically you could.”

John Cleese commented on the dangers of making jokes about “people who are going to kill you.”

“The problem is if you make jokes about people who are going to kill you, there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little isn’t there?”