'Monty Python' comedian says Trump emboldened people to laugh again after woke activists ruined comedy
Veteran filmmaker and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam believes that President Donald Trump's re-election has allowed people to laugh again In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday the -year-old director spoke about his career the state of comedy and the future of his latest film project amid the changing cultural landscape When sought if he still felt that humorless activists were stifling comedy Gilliam declared that Trump had shaken up the conditions I think Trump has changed things considerably He s turned the world upside down Gilliam explained I don t know if people are going to be tittering more but they re presumably less frightened to laugh Gilliam blamed woke activists with a narrow self-righteous point of view for instilling fear in comedians over the past several years COMEDIAN RICKY GERVAIS SAYS FREE SPEECH ESSENTIAL FOR COMEDY ADMITS ANY JOKE WILL OFFEND SOMEONE That s frightened so a great number of people and so a great number of people have been very timid about telling jokes making fun of things because if you tell a joke these people say you re punching down at somebody No you re finding humor in humanity he noted Gilliam described how Trump s return to power had the unintended consequence of derailing his upcoming comedy The Carnival at the End of Days a satire about Satan trying to stop God from wiping out humanity which lampoons woke tradition The film originally carried the subtitle Great fun for all of those who enjoy taking offense Well he s f up the latest film I was working on Because it was a satire about the last several years when things were going as they were He s turned it upside down So he s killed my movie Gilliam reported JIMMY KIMMEL BLAMES LIBERALS 'VICIOUSLY ATTACKING COMEDIANS' FOR TRUMP'S RISE TO POWER That was how I approached it I think Trump has destroyed satire I mean how can you be satirical about what s going on in the way he s doing the world he revealed He joked about including a disclaimer in the film that places it in the so-called Trump lost years between and The film's script mocking self-righteous woke activists feels outdated now he elaborated to Deadline And the other matter is that the script in selected avenues is out of date because it was a satire of the world two years ago and Donald Trump has come along and he is the carnival He s turned the world upside down everything We may have to rework certain of the story because parts of it was very specific about the wonderful world of woke before The Donald took over again That very narrow way of thinking of life We ll see where it goes At the moment I may be out of a job for another years he stated the outlet Tuesday Gilliam lamented the difficulties of getting the film off the ground in an increasingly cautious entertainment industry We've been living in a very nervous world he reported You were not allowed to offend anyone and all the executives were living in fear so I started looking elsewhere CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREDespite his latest comments about Trump Gilliam is no fan of the president calling him a conman and an idiot in a interview with Agence France-Presse Gilliam has long been outspoken against political correctness and cancel lifestyle hurting comedy In a interview with The Independent Gilliam mentioned he was all for diversity but was tired of White men being blamed for everything wrong in the world It s been so simplified is what I don t like When I announce that I m a Black lesbian in transition people take offense at that Why he joked In he echoed these sentiments to Euronews saying people were losing their sense of humor Activists are very self-righteous and if you don t agree with them you re then a transphobe a homophobe No I m a phobe-phobe I hate hate That s what I hate he commented at the time
