John Cleese has withdrawn from a talk at Cambridge University because the union’s president banned another speaker for impersonating Hitler.
“I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does.”
Cleese, 82, has impersonated the Nazi leader in both Fawlty Towers and in a sketch in Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
In a statement, Graham-Dixon said that he was “briefly paraphrasing HIS [Hitler’s] crass and insensitive statements about art and race”.
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