John Cleese pulls out of Cambridge Union event over ‘woke rules’

Comedian says he is ‘blacklisting himself’ after another speaker was banned for Hitler impersonation

John Cleese has withdrawn from an event at the Cambridge Union, saying he was “blacklisting” himself before “someone else does”.

The move by the Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star was in protest after the debating society banned art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon for impersonating Adolf Hitler.

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