Cleese continued: “Whenever you’re doing comedy, you’re up against the literal minded and the literal minded don’t understand irony.
John Cleese has said “literal-minded” viewers, who don’t understand when something is a joke, are ruining comedy.
Cleese went on to suggest that the quality of comedy has dwindled over the years – despite admitting he’s “watching very little comedy now”.
Whether it’s good change or bad change, it doesn’t matter – it’s change, and I think everything’s changing so fast now.
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