Graham Norton comes for John Cleese’s “cancel culture” comments—but don’t quote him on it!
not be in the headlines, but here we are…Recently, the TV host/RuPaul’s Drag Race UK judge/Eurovision commentator extraordinaire was a featured guest at England’s Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he sat down for a live interview with journalist Mariella Frostrup.The conversation touched on a wide range of topics, but it’s Norton’s comments on cancel culture—and why he’d rather not be centralized in that conversation—that have ironically gotten the internet’s attention.In a clip shared by Times Radio, the host shares his confusion over certain public figures decrying cancel culture: “In what world are you canceled?
I’m reading your article in the newspaper,” he says with a laugh. “The word is the wrong word. The word should be accountability.”Related: Graham Norton ties the knot to mystery man in lavish ceremonyIt’s at this point that Norton brings up John Cleese, who’s made quite a few headlines himself recently, for all the wrong reasons. (As our colleagues at INTO put it, the Monty Python comedian has “gone to the dark side.”)“It must be very hard to be a man of a certain age,” says Norton in reference to Cleese, “who’s been able to say whatever he’d like for years.
And now, suddenly, there’s some accountability. It’s free speech, but not consequence free.”"In what world are you cancelled?
I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be accountability."Graham Norton criticises John Cleese and tells #TimesRadio that cancel culture isn't real.@mariellaf1 pic.twitter.com/mErngPl2kJ— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) October 12, 2022When Frostup then brings up censorship and J.K.
