+karlakor Because the Dutch are a very civilised people!

+karlakor Because most Dutch aren't arrogant and full of them self. They like British comedy.

+karlakor The Dutch on the whole are quite boorish, distant, self-rightous and, regarding their fairly widespread despisement and loathing of the USA, blatantly ignorant and largely informed, or should I say misinformed, by superficial, shallow Left-leaning media

+Chrizzie 78 Are you from the US by any chance? Because if so, I don't think you have any right to talk about being misinformed by any form of media...

+Chrizzie 78 Hmmm... Doth holier than thou speak of Holland or 90% of America?

And the dutch women in the audience are not uptight, they were laughing out loud!!

I don't understand this.

I'm Dutch but I'd never heard the term Dutch Wife before until now. But it's funny :)

Absolutely

Agreed. It's a cozy atmosphere, isn't it?

Funny fact, he has won the price of being best interviewer of the Netherlands

And I really like the fact that you can speak English better than... Many of the British. No, not me, although possibly....

I'd totally agree (and interesting to note re. the interviewer's general approach). Delightful to see John Cleese laughing so freely, clearly having a great time and the right mix of questions, right down to the daft Fawlty Towers/Monty Python references. I watched it again after reading So Anyway, which I really enjoyed - though it got a bit of a critical pounding in the UK for only being the first half of his career. In spite of that his written 'voice' makes for a consistent and amusing read. He wrote that in Sydney, so here's hoping he took some time out in between the Fawlty Towers Live! show - again premiered in Oz as he expected it'd be critically slaughtered in the UK - to pen the second half. The 'mythbusters' conversation on here looks to be just as insightful and irreverent as this one. Worth checking out....

Likewise. Maybe it is, in part, due to Cleese finally managing to shake off the 'uptight' English traits that have dogged much of his working and personal life. He's fairly open in his book about his tendency towards a controlling nature, the resultant tension(s), his desire that everything be exact right down to the tiniest detail, his urge to work,work, work - traits that evidently have made things difficult within himself and with others. He can recognise it, but he cannot often do anything about it. It's just how he is. At his age now he perhaps just does not care quite so much any more as he did in the past - he's got nothing to prove, even if parts of the media maybe think otherwise - and so he's relaxing into his role with a natural ease. He's very lucky that the exceptionally broad approach of his comedy has allowed him to explore/question many themes, many lines of thought and experience, and it's great to see him simply talking (in a way that, say, a musician interview would only perhaps touch on the subject of his/her new record, how they learnt to play an instrument and what other musicians influenced them) about, well, what informs life in general. I also think that post-war generation have a good handle on the world - maybe it's an internet thing these days that makes everything seem much easier to access, but somehow it's much harder to filter and distil down, and as such our perception of other races and nationalities are a bit blurry (in as much a good as a bad way)? - which goes some way to explaining his perceptive comments as regards London and the Dutch. And if we're looking for a suitably Pythonesque punchline to all this, well, I am in fact Scottish, ha ha....

Why is John Cleese so up himself?

It's some time ago. This type interviewer and audience do not exist anymore.

+Selinor578 That's what I was thinking. Damm, he kept me watching for almost 2 fucking hours.

Selinor578 Same this is my fourth time

Same!!

I actually had an audiobook of him reading "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis. Wonderful!

You must be dreaming… he s an extremely arrogant bastard. Looking down on Dutch and Belgian people. Beside, his humor in A Fish called Wanda is far from refreshing…imo.

Instead of criticising his wives… he d better examine his own conscience.

The only reason why he s rather behaving here. Think twice…He wants to promote his book. Period.

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+DorianYT Interesting. There could be another factor : the way school is set up, students tend to be thinking 'is this going to be on the exam' . So rather then letting themselves be immersed in the show, they will be writing down things they think they will be quizzed on later on.

+DorianYT Well I agree on not showing this in class, but teachers are not necessarily just a figure of authority. They should teach children something, and sometimes things like humor and music are a part of that, especially with foreign languages.

Enjoy it while it lasts. No doubt the perpetually offended woke wappies will ruin this in the near future

We Dutchies are calling things as they are. No need to give a nicer name to a fart... it still smells like a one :)

I think John Cleese is horrible

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why? what was so wrong with the last minute? His advice on "luck" ???

It's a Dutch saying literally translated, so it doesn't have the same meaning in English. He is just saying that the entire interview was enjoyable, in Dutch it means that something was -whatever- from start until the very last minute (the start is implied).

@@jagoisso7267 Thank you, that was confusing to me, a British person :)

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