John Cleese: Wokeism Is the Enemy of Comedy—and Creativity

“People are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended”

Wokeism is the internal interruption of your creativity because you're thinking " Is this idea going to get me in trouble?"

The current education system teaches you “will power” rather than how to be creative. Will power is the ability to do something you don’t want to do. Anecdote: Cleese had an essay assignment about time. In comedic fashion, he wrote about how he didn’t have time to complete the essay. The teacher rejected the paper and said it was not within the ass... See more

“I don’t think you can teach creativity, but you can teach people how to set themselves up for their own creativity to emerge”