"You can do the creation and then criticize it, but you can't do them at the same time. So if you're worried about offending people and constantly thinking of that, you are not going to be very creative. So I think it has a disastrous effect."
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“John Cleese says wokeness has a 'disastrous' impact on comedy” Fox News (20 July 2022)
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