Ben Fordham has applauded British actor John Cleese for cancelling himself.

Mr Cleese pulled out of a scheduled talk at Cambridge University over “woke rules” that saw another speaker blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Adolf Hitler.

In a statement, he wrote “I am blacklisting myself before someone else does.’

“Bravo, John Cleese,” Ben said.

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I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an
impersonation of Hitler

I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 10, 2021

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