and joining me tonight is an absolute legend , john cleese. an absolute legend, john cleese. yes and i want to put your questions to him. so have you got any questions? get in touch. we've got it all to come and more. but first up, let's grab tonight's latest headlines. michelle, thank you very much. and good evening. this is the latest . a man and good evening. this is the latest. a man has and good evening. this is the latest . a man has been remanded latest. a man has been remanded in custody over an alleged plot to kidnap and kill tv presenter holly willoughby. gb news reporter lisa hartle has been outside court in chelmsford, 36 year old gavin plum appeared at chelmsford magistrates court this afternoon. >> the shopping centre security guard from harlow in essex has been charged with soliciting a man named david nelson to commit murder and incitement to commit kidnap between the second and the 5th of october. plum is accused of planning to assemble accused of planning to assemble a kidnap and restraint kit and encouraging a third party to travel to the uk to carry out th

john cleese the nicest cleese is one of the nicest people in the world.rlfriend is a huge john cleese fan. and it gave him the phone. he talked to my girlfriend and he said that i sounded like a guy who was announcing the end of the world. this is what he said about me. louis amazing, amazing . louis schaefer amazing, amazing. so going to make people so it's going to make people feel so, so good. do you know what watching? what i grew up watching? >> flying circus. >> monty python's flying circus. not it was airing, of not while it was airing, of course. not from course. i'm not. i'm not from the 1970s, but i did grow up watching the clips of it online, and i had the dvds. is and i had all the dvds. is a holy grail life of brian, like all the rest of it. meaning of life, even. yeah it was my childhood and it's just so remarkable that that john cleese, who has been such a staple of british comedy for the best part of 50 years, is, is still going and going strong . still going and going strong. >> and he should be he should have had a show. it just itjust h

and it's john cleese.he is. have a look at this. talking matthew talking with journalist, matthew said , i would say and this is said, i would say and this is based on deep personal experience as we've got so much better in this country. >> yes, we have. i think we one of the most possibly the most progressive racially tolerant countries in the world. i've never , ever conscious of my have never, ever conscious of my have to be very careful of saying that because we're not supposed to admit anything's getting better . but this is to admit anything's getting better. but this is a to admit anything's getting better . but this is a tragedy to better. but this is a tragedy to me . yeah, i think the story of me. yeah, i think the story of racism in this country is a good news story over the course of my lifetime, relative to other nations, we're doing tremendously it is absurd tremendously well. it is absurd to compare ourselves the to compare ourselves to the united states . for example, it united states. for

john cleese radio.elcome back to free speech nation. >> now my next guest is professor eric kaufmann , who professor eric kaufmann, who faced calls to be cancelled from students and other staff members when he was professor of politics at birkbeck university of london, where his research focussed on immigration, nationalism and religion . nationalism and religion. >> professor kaufmann has now decided course at the decided to start a course at the university of buckingham, which he calling faculty of he is calling a faculty of common sense. centre for common sense. the centre for heterodox social science will offer a 15 week online course about the woke ideology. professor eric kaufmann joins me now. welcome to the show. >> great to be here. thanks so , >> great to be here. thanks so, eric, firstly , what do you mean eric, firstly, what do you mean by woke ideology ? by woke ideology? >> because there's a lot of confusion around the term, right? >> i always say woke one sentence. it's making sacred of h

john cleese radio.come back to free speech nation. >> now my next guest is professor eric kaufmann , who professor eric kaufmann, who faced calls to be cancelled from students and other staff members when he was professor of politics at birkbeck university of london, where his research focussed on immigration, nationalism and religion . nationalism and religion. >> professor kaufmann has now decided course at the decided to start a course at the university of buckingham, which he calling faculty of he is calling a faculty of common sense. centre for common sense. the centre for heterodox social science will offer a 15 week online course about the woke ideology. professor eric kaufmann joins me now. welcome to the show. >> great to be here. thanks so , >> great to be here. thanks so, eric, firstly , what do you mean eric, firstly, what do you mean by woke ideology ? by woke ideology? >> because there's a lot of confusion around the term, right? >> i always say woke one sentence. it's making sacred of his

. >> john cleese on . gb news now, >> john cleese on.e haven't been many people doing anything much about this awful press of ours. but one group that i very much admire is called hacked off and the lady who sort of runs it is jackie hames. i know you don't really run it, but it's much more interesting if i say, jackie, thank you for coming. tell me about hacked off. >> you're very welcome , john. >> you're very welcome, john. >> you're very welcome, john. >> it's lovely to meet you . >> it's lovely to meet you. >> it's lovely to meet you. >> um, hacked off. >> um, hacked off. >> we don't have to be polite . >> we don't have to be polite. you can be really rude to me. it's much more fun. >> we'll come on to that later , >> we'll come on to that later, okay? no, it's hacked came. okay? no, it's hacked off. came. really out of all the really was born out of all the revelation that appeared in after the hacking of the murdered schoolgirl milly dowler's phone. >> so what year was that? >> so what year was that? >> so what year was that? >> s

i'm john cleese has revealed that he's struggling to get guests.d me so that's completely he's not struggled present tense because it's recorded , hasn't it? it's been recorded, hasn't it? >> and that's why didn't >> and that's why i didn't understand some guests. understand some great guests. i think maybe made some think maybe he made some flippant about how hard flippant remark about how hard it to get interesting people it was to get interesting people , them. , but he got them. >> the unfortunate thing >> i think the unfortunate thing with dame john, if i may, is his mouth run away himself mouth does run away with himself sometimes. so i think he probably himself. probably got himself. >> got some good copy just >> they got some good copy just by him literally when he by taking him literally when he was mischievous. his was being mischievous. but his thing saying that it's out thing about saying that it's out of his joke , isn't of touch is his own joke, isn't it? that's his at it? that's his joke at his expense. i think. it? that's his joke a

we have we boris coming and we have boris coming in and this sunday cleese's sunday we've got john cleese's, which louis schaffer is starring 9:00 on this starring in at 9:00 on this channel. incredible. that channel. that's incredible. that is minister. >> you still it about louis >> you still made it about louis schaffer. yeah, schaffer. that's amazing. yeah, i it about me in the i still made it about me in the intro. >> so we've both right, you intro. >> the ne've both right, you intro. >> the bige both right, you intro. >> the big dog. h right, you intro. >> the big dog. and right, you intro. >> the big dog. and louist, you are the big dog. and louis schaffer is john cleese's sidekick, at ever so sidekick, at least ever so slightly show. slightly in this show. >> i mean, do i >> so you welcome. i mean, do i welcome him? >> yeah. this is a remember one thing, nick, and you know this and know this this is a and i know this this is a platform. is like a record platform. this is like a record label. i don't care who else is on the record as long as on the record label as long as they're job

it's the dinosaur hour john cleese from nine till ten. i will be here at ten.for the next ten weeks, mark dolan tonight is more. ten till tonight less is more. ten till 11. don't miss it. and i'm already planning the take at ten and it will spark a few fireworks . let me tell you. fireworks. let me tell you. halloween, eat your heart out. okay. this . tomorrow's okay. time for this. tomorrow's front pages are in the mail on sunday. london jihad demo leader is an nhs doctor. sunday. london jihad demo leader is an nhs doctor . extremists is an nhs doctor. extremists double life as a suburban gp exposed by the mail on sunday as hamas paraglider attack mastermind is killed in gaza. strikes sunday telegraph . israel strikes sunday telegraph. israel sends in elite troops for a long war minister's plan . extremism war minister's plan. extremism crackdown as fears grow over uk permitting anti—gay jewish hate permitting anti —gay jewish hate and permitting anti—gay jewish hate and bbc shake—up to tackle complaints of bias. the observer sunak king's speech to open green

gb news john cleese , we're just news john cleese, we're just going to interrupt you. >> we're gettinglogies for that. we did get most of what you were saying there, but clearly we've got some problems with signal from manchester. with the signal from manchester. but thank very much indeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we ank very much indeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we get very much indeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we get an very much indeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we get an updateluch indeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we get an update withindeed. with the signal from manchester. bu'we get an update with thatzd. as we get an update with that bma the city bma rally there in the city centre , so do stay with us. centre, so do stay with us. >> we'll be talking about james bond and an incredible auction that's place . s lots of that's taking place. s lots of lots of goodies to feast your eyes over them. live live and let by if you've been working very hard on that all day. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> let's get the headlines now with . aaron wi

comedy legend john cleese's brand new show on gb news launches on october the 29th. ferences onune and i have had our differences online in recent weeks, but i'm confident the new show will be brilliant. and his first hit in 35 years. let's start with my take . at ten. not satisfied with take. at ten. not satisfied with deciding our movement movements over two and a half years pressurising a certain medication on the whole population in stopping people going out to work for what we were told was a health crisis. is the spirit of authoritarian ism and government overreach continues apace as the pandemic becomes a distant memory . the becomes a distant memory. the instruments of state control are now in place, which is why i was hugely disappointed with the prime minister. rishi sunak's announced tonight that he'll ban smoking among younger people with an ambition to have tobacco completely eradicate it within a generation . first of all, good generation. first of all, good luck with that. the minute that you outlaw something, you create an instant black market for the

comedy legend john cleese's brand new show on gb news launches on october the 29th. differences onune and i have had our differences online in recent weeks, but i'm confident the new show will be brilliant. and his first hit in 35 years. let's start with my take . at ten. not satisfied with take. at ten. not satisfied with deciding our movement movements over two and a half years pressurising a certain medication on the whole population in stopping people going out to work for what we were told was a health crisis. is the spirit of authoritarian ism and government overreach continues apace as the pandemic becomes a distant memory . the becomes a distant memory. the instruments of state control are now in place, which is why i was hugely disappointed with the prime minister. rishi sunak's announced tonight that he'll ban smoking among younger people with an ambition to have tobacco completely eradicate it within a generation . first of all, good generation. first of all, good luck with that. the minute that you outlaw something, you create an instant black market for t

they've spoken out john cleese, jemmy carr and ricky gervais . that's all we've ricky gervais.hat's all we've got , though ricky gervais. that's all we've got, though millionaire funnyman graham norton went the other way and framed cancel culture as worthy punishment for wrong speak. worthy punishment for wrong speak . he called it speak. he called it accountability or something. jemmy carr , who i hugely admire jemmy carr, who i hugely admire , even has a part in his new show where he tells the jokes that he won't be allowed to tell in ten years time. this is progress, is it? how dare this country call itself the home of intellectual freedom? do me a favour comedy in britain is getting so woke it's starting to make north korea look like the home of free speech in an article in today's mail newspaper , peter kay is quoted newspaper, peter kay is quoted as defending little britain, for example. well come to the clown world, by the way, of 2023, where you have to defend and speak up for a show that was watched and enjoyed by millions people of all backgrounds, of all races, creed

speaking very aslef john cleese i >> all right . all >> all right. all right. >> all right .right. all right. hello thank you. how are you? all right . thank thank you. how are you? all right. thank you. thank you very much indeed. hello. how are we? all right . hello there . thank all right. hello there. thank you.thank. you. thank. acas. prime minister . you. thank. acas. prime minister. i want day . so just to put. love you, babe . we . put mark love you, babe. we. put mark steyn . steyn. >> good morning, everybody . as >> good morning, everybody. as you know from the music , i'm you know from the music, i'm fresh back from . manchester to fresh back from. manchester to where i had a pretty good time. i'm some people got it. it was an extraordinary event. i hadn't been to a conservative conference since the late 1980s and it was astonishing . the and it was astonishing. the response to me was astonishing . response to me was astonishing. people coming up for selfies and offering me drink after drink. i mean, i mean, some of it was murder. it really was. but i was very stru

. >> the question of the judiciary i >> ukip john cleese, thank you both for appearing on our program over the last few days. >> we really appreciate it. but what is life like? >> the passing of day >> the passing of each day and particularly to one particularly as we get to one week since this happened ? week since this happened? >> difficult is that ? >> how difficult is that? >> how difficult is that? >> life is extremely difficult, but i think we are. not thing prepares you for that. you know , up prepares you for that. you know , up till . friday i'm working , up till. friday i'm working with my clients and help them with my clients and help them with their own emotions to get the better quality of life and make change in the world. what we understand humans in different ways and we're talking about how ai is going to change the world and what is all kind of range of sexuality, and then everything comes back to the basic basic , basic, existential, basic basic, basic, existential, existential reasoning of what the hell we are for . here why the hell we are for. here why are we he