Today's very special guest does not suffer fools.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid

that they have no idea how stupid they are.

You see, if you're very, very stupid,

how can you possibly realize that you're very, very stupid? You'd have to be relatively

intelligent to realize how stupid you are. There's a wonderful bit of research by a guy called

David Dunning at Cornell, who's a friend of mine, I'm proud to say, who's pointed out that

in order to know how good you are at something requires exactly the same skills as it does to be good at that

thing in the first place, which means, and it's just very funny, that if you're absolutely

no good at something at all, then you lack exactly the skills that you need to know that

you're absolutely no good at it.

And this explains not just Hollywood,

but almost the entirety of Fox News.

This is the last laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,

and on today's episode, zooming

in from across the pond, it's the one and only John Cleese. I was absolutely thrilled to get

the opportunity to speak with the Monty Python co-founder, who turned 80 years old last fall,

and he did not disappoint. Most legendary comedians of his

age would be relaxing at home during a global pandemic, but John has been hard at work putting

together his first ever live stream comedy show called Why There Is No Hope, which he tells me

all about in this episode. There were so many questions I could have asked

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