John Cleese has caused offence to the people of Liverpool by making a joke about the old stereotype that Scousers are thieves. Delighted to see Ford is creating more jobs on Merseyside Let's hope nobody half-inches the plant. People from Liverpool are traditionally known as Scousers after the Scouse stew which originates from the area. Read more: John Cleese accuses London of not being 'an English city any more'. Many Twitter users responded to Cleese's tweet to say they were "disappointed" by the "tired old stereotype" and called it a "lazy joke".
Scouserella tweeted: "Not all us scousers are thieves sick of being tarred with the same stereotypical brush. You get thieves everywhere but us scousers are the best, funniest and most kind hearted of all.
It was recently revealed that Cleese is set to front a new TV series exploring the phenomenon of cancel culture. The Monty Python star will meet both those affected by being cancelled and those who are behind the cancelling in Channel 4 series John Cleese: Cancel Me.
He will question whether it is possible to make good comedy without offending someone, and look at the effects on the lives of people who have caused outrage with their work or comments. One of Cleese's best known series is the 70s sitcom Fawlty Towers , which saw him on the receiving end of cancel culture last year when an episode titled The Germans was labelled with a content warning after briefly being removed from the BBC and UKTV while it was reviewed.
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What a charming man, very whitty , intelligent, loves good music , great at football, has 35 letters after his name Greatest people in the world from the greatest City in the world.
From the city that is home to England's greatest ever pop group and greatest ever football team. The only negative about Liverpool is that it's much too close to Manchester. Beatles Steven Gerrard. Wye aye man. Ama Scouser from Liverpool innit?
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