“Monty Python” star Terry Gilliam credited President Donald Trump with turning comedy “upside down,” and said that people are less afraid to laugh now after woke activists did their best to try and ruin it.
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Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the 84-year-old comedian and British filmmaker was asked about his past comments on fearing the end of satire and said that since Trump became president again, all that’s changed.
“I think Trump has changed things considerably,” Gilliam explained. “He’s turned the world upside down. I don’t know if people are going to be laughing more, but they’re probably less frightened to laugh.”
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“There have been woke activists with a very narrow, self-righteous point of view,” he added. “That’s frightened so many people, and so many