John Cleese of Monty Python on Sarah Palin
Select opinions of the master of the sketch comedy, John Cleese:
I used to think that Michael Palin was the funniest Palin on Earth.
Can people watching her on TV not see that she’s basically learned certain speeches, and she does them very well, she has got a very good memory. But it’s like a nice looking parrot. Because the parrot speaks beautifully, and kind of says aw shucks every now and again, but doesn’t really have any understanding of the meaning of the words it is producing even though it is producing them very accurately and shes been in these training sessions with Cheney’s pals and she’s learned these speeches and the extraordinary thing is that so many people are taken in by it. And the truth is, that Sarah Palin is nowhere good enough, and if you lined up from Europe, left-wingers, centrists, right-wingers, you wouldn’t find 10%, you wouldn’t find 5% who think she’s good enough to run the United States. And she’s running as the partner of a 72-year old cancer survivor.
I mean Monty Python could have written this. And I’m sorry Michael Palin, to say that you’re not the funniest Palin anymore, but you are not.
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