“Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out”

I love John Cleese, but even I knew most of those details about Graham Chapman just from watching docs of Monty Python over the decades.

The image of John Cleese sitting absolutely gullible opposite of a charlatan who just googled him to talk about more obscure parts of his career is heartbreaking...

The Flying Circus is on Netflix. Has been for years. She could easily see the rolled up trouser leg in the Freemason sketch and that Graham smoked a pipe in sketches. I've watched the series every year. Bill is right: I want that psychic's job. Too easy.

Always found it interesting how so many people say they believe in the Holy Spirit, angels and the Devil but don't believe in the existence of ghostly spirits.

Sadly, it appears he John has no grasp of the information available at everyone's fingertips via google or KZread. But hey... he's 84. Not to mention the priceless amount of comedic genius he's provided us over the years. One of the greats !!!

The psychic just googled john cleese and played him like a fiddle

Oh John, I do dote on you, but *anyone* could say Graham was waving around a parrot. And I just did a shallow search and my first hit was "Surprising things you didn't know about John Cleese" and #1 was the lemur. So this psychic could easily have prepared herself with these images. Please, John, *please*.

I like that when a spirit of a dead relative finally gets to talk to you thru a psychic, they talk about nonsense. Only subjects to "verify" that theyre real lol

The scientific explanation is termed: "conned"

@PippaPeerless

2 ай бұрын

also "Hallucination"

@michaelstearnesstearnes1498

2 ай бұрын

​@@PippaPeerlessnot to mention wishful thinking.

Wikipedia has his namesake lemur. Probably she read his wiki page before the interview. No psychic power needed.

@carrieohio

2 ай бұрын

The second time he was waving a lemur? Why couldn't he just hold it? It's the waving part that's weird.

I’m adopted, no psychic has ever been able to tell me this, so I haven’t found a “real one” yet 😊

Oh John...

"There's no way she could have known that.' err .... Wikipedia.

John Cleese has to google how cold reading works. The psychics just throw out bits and pieces of little information and then the guest provides them with the rest. I once seen John Edward live because a girl took me along and he is supposed to be one of the biggest, even South Park dedicated an entire episode to him, and to me it was SOO obvious that he was doing cold reading. "Ahh.. hmm... I am getting a signal.. of a name with G.... is it Gary? Does anyone know a Gary?... ham... I think I see a George... does any one know a George?" Person in audience stands up and yells "My uncle was called George!" "Oh, George tells you that he loves you. He is concerned about a valuable painting you have." "I don't have a painting, but my aunt" "Yes, and he is concerned about your aunt's painting." And everybody claps.

John Cleese is a wise man

Hoisted on his own humility………. John ol boy……if you think the medium didn’t know you were coming and studied you at great length……you are kidding yourself

How much did she charge?

PT Barnum was right.

I had an experience, that’s all I’ll say. Don’t worry, we’ll all find out

Some of the "evidence" is extraordinary ... perfect description e.g. well outside of ordinary. 🤨

I'd rather take his word for it.

I don't know. I don't know. Perfectly acceptable. Try it. Ever think, I'm not seeing everything. Here and now? Woah, I' m standing at a street corner in W. Philly and it's 3 am. You think why am I stopped? Next minute a car is flying through the crosswalk running a red light where you would have been walking? 😌

He basically just described how he got duped by cold reading. "She said something like.." "and I said...". Yeah, you grafted something real onto her clever gibberish.

It's Cleese as in cheese, not Cleese as in geese. Although either pronunciation is equally gullible.

@jonathansteadman7935

2 ай бұрын

Because his name IS Cheese, but he changed it to Cleese.

@InjuredRobot.

2 ай бұрын

No he didn't. His father did before going into the military during WWI. Did you come in here for an argument?

Very suprised at Cleese's gullibility.

East to debunk stuff like this with a famous guy

Psychic experience 😂😂😂😂😂

I believe we go into a dream state or a slumber at death. This is biblically backed. I believe that without the body our dream state or slumber will be a reality as much as the limits our bodys experience feels. I believe this slumber or dreamstate is not a purgatory but a place where we will be faced with our decisions on earth. Some of us will be tormented by the truths we denied and the lies we spread. I also believe we can be awoken from this slumber. Our energy can be summoned. Its not typical but possible. Solomon summoned old wisemen from their rest Jesus summoned Elijah and Moses (WITHOUT ANY RITUAL NEEDED)! I dont believe anyone can do this and dabbling in this u can conjure a deceptive spirit. I have seen summoning with my own eyes and u can't get me to lie and say it didnt happen!

@brando7266

2 ай бұрын

U should go on 60 minutes, to prove it,

There's alot of fool's gold being hocked out there, which I think Cleese is going way too easy on here. But just because fool's gold exists doesn't mean real gold doesn't exist. And I understand Dawkin's refusal to read. I've read up on certain issues enough that it becomes a certain amount unlikely I will find something new by further reading. At that point, YOU have to do the work to show me where there is something new TO ME in what you are presenting on such an issue in order for me to read it. You have to know where I'm at, and know you've got something which I will find new to me.

I don't want to know what John's shoes smell like.

Who knew he was so gullible? Never mind that he fed her answers let alone all was public knowledge.

Did the "dead parrot"get in touch.

Sheldrake is a known conman.

@Mr.Goodkat

2 ай бұрын

How so?

@davidsanders5652

2 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat As I lifelong popular science reader I bought A new science of life back in the late 1980s (still have it) and it was clearly nonsense. Even to a layman. And I knew, then and there, we had a new von Daniken on our hands. His work was never peer reviewed, his claims impossible to prove and his interpretation of fact as fanciful as von D's claim that pyramids were built by aliens. Frankly I am disappointed with Cleese and can only ascribe his turning to the fairies as a regrettable demonstration that no mind is immune to the ravages of time.

@Mr.Goodkat

2 ай бұрын

@@davidsanders5652 How is he a conman though? who did he con and how?

@davidsanders5652

2 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat Now you have shown your true colours. Anyone who buys his books which he flogs as science...including Cleese.

@Mr.Goodkat

2 ай бұрын

@@davidsanders5652 How is he a coman?

I have so much to share about my experiences, I could write a book! I have proof that the afterlife exists. I personally, believe in God, or a Divine Force. I would never drill or force my beliefs on anyone because people have tried to do that to me. My brother was an Atheist for years- he turned into a Christian- and I have psychic sources that confirm he is in ‘Heaven’ with my grandmother and a few others who are deceased.

@stefanross8129

2 ай бұрын

😅..... Hahahaha!!!! Hilarious!

I think it's John's modesty that allows him to believe his association with Graham (and his pipe) isn't common knowledge 😁

Gullible

Wishful thinking is one of the cogs for all superstitions. It’s all rubbish.

Many things happen to me that are unexplainable, there is a spirit realm and God is very real, you have to experience a paranormal event yourself to understand

Satanic black magic!! Paulie

This is embarrassing, it makes everything the pythons done meaningless

@laurame4301

2 ай бұрын

Why?

Yeah but Cleese is taking the piss too possibly hmmm?

Sad to say that I lost a bit of my high esteem for John Cleese after hearing this. The sentence 'Science cannot explain this!' usually just shows that people don't understand what science is. Just because science couldn't explain what an earthquake was a few hundred years ago didn't mean it was supernatural in origin. Science means looking for explanations using scientific methods. Not that something scientists can't explain must be supernatural. Or real.

@stefanross8129

2 ай бұрын

Correct!!

@user-dy7gv1yj5o

2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad that he speaks out about this stuff in spite of the nay-sayers. He knows that people are going to say he's nuts - he doesn't give a f. Well done old bean!

@JP-mp5st

2 ай бұрын

You’re negating your own argument. Science can’t pass judgement on things it can’t yet explain. As Cleese said, the only answer is I don’t know. Think about how many scientific theories in your own lifetime that have been accepted as fact only to be later adjusted or disproven. The “supernatural” becomes the natural once it’s explainable. Every thing is ultimately natural.

@XanderMac1023

2 ай бұрын

Then why are there so many things that science HAS NEVER, and WILL NEVER, be able to fully explain?

@Azhalan

2 ай бұрын

@@JP-mp5st That was basically my argument. It is absolutely impossible to say something doesn't exist on a universal scale. But using the argument that something can't be explained scientifically at the moment doesn't mean it's real. Nothing attracts con artists more than people who have lost someone. Apart maybe from crypto currency.

he os sooo wrong about scientists running from the convo. Scientists is what debunked bs he believes in.

The real problem stems from people _wanting_ it to be true. Nobody has communed with the dead. Nobody. *_PERIOD_*

@gregh7400

2 ай бұрын

Great. Where's your evidence?

@clarareitz1974

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the real problem is not having an open mind.

@jimmipadge

2 ай бұрын

@@gregh7400 where is *_My_* evidence that something _NEVER_ happened? Lmao, that’s not how it works… There is however loads of evidence of how cold reading and other tricks work.

@jimmipadge

2 ай бұрын

@@clarareitz1974 ….but not so open that your brain falls out…

@MantisEnergy

2 ай бұрын

@@gregh7400 Logically the burden of proof doesn't lie with the person denying the claim.

What a tool.

You reach this age even an intelligent man like Cleese will start believing nonsense

@laurame4301

2 ай бұрын

Nope, he's been interested in parapsychology for years. He's worked with the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies. How do you know it's nonsense? You don't.

@laurame4301

2 ай бұрын

Sting has seen a ghost. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qp-eudCEltPAYaw.html Dan Akroyd's grandfather was a dentist and psychic researcher. His dad and uncles were spiritualists. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

@gregh7400

2 ай бұрын

@laurame4301 Exactly. It's easy and lazy to simply say it's nonsense and stating your opinions as fact. The University of Virginia School of Medicine has been studying these things since the 1960's. Perhaps deniers should look at their research before pretending they know what they are talking about.

@jtee5957

2 ай бұрын

@@gregh7400 Not saying some of this stuff doesn't exist. It might. Just saying that what Cleese described was available online to anyone with researching skills.

Such a brilliant comedian to fall for the grifters is a bit disheartening.

If Richard Dawkins was deaf he'd say sound doesn't exist.Why do people always say was he drunk or on drugs, I've never seen anything while drunk or on drugs, only when sober.

Come on John - this is embarrassing.

I would hate the idea of living in a world where things like this were not a possibility. Having had an experience like this that literally saved my life...Keep an open mind

@collinsmcrae

2 ай бұрын

Things like this aren't possible and you do, unfortunately, live in such a world.

@erniehudson1

2 ай бұрын

only because it felt good to you it doesn't make it more true. The likelihood that we are talking about wishful-thinking is actually increased.

He's just wrong. Scientists are not afraid to admit they don't know. Science is fundamentally rooted in admitting that we don't know. Dawkins is always wrongly accused of being elitist when he isn't. The elitists are the ones who accuse him, projecting their own elitism onto him where it doesn't exist. He is a perfectly humble scientist who simply stands up to all the false accusations constantly lobbed at him. When you stand up to bullies, they accuse you of bullying them because in a mind of a bully, refusing to let them bully you is interpreted as a personal attack. The modern atheist movement is the essence of humility and we simply stand up to the arrogant religious people constantly attacking us and tell them we aren't lettting you dominate any longer. And in response, they project their bullying onto us, like looking in a mirror, and accuse us of doing to them what they actually do to us. It is clinical insanity, and it has ruled the world for ages and they can't get it through their heads that their ancient reign of terror is coming to an end.

holy shit... harry potter was a premonition...