ONLY NOW, AT THE VERY END, DO THEY UNDERSTAND: Lifelong Lefty John Cleese Discovers That Lefties Have No Sense Of Humor:

John Cleese, one of the funniest people to ever walk the earth, is taking a stand against political correctness on college campuses.

The Monty Python co-founder, in a video for Internet forum Big Think, railed against the current wave of hypersensitivity on college campuses, saying he has been warned against performing on campuses.

“[Psychiatrist Robin Skynner] said: ‘If people can’t control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people’s behavior,'” Cleese said. “And when you’re around super-sensitive people, you cannot relax and be spontaneous because you have no idea what’s going to upset them next.”

Cleese said that it’s one thing to be “mean” to “people who are not able to look after themselves very well,” but it was another to take it to “the point where any kind of criticism of any individual or group could be labeled cruel.”

Cleese added that “comedy is critical,” and if society starts telling people “we mustn’t criticize or offend them,” then humor goes out the window.

“With humor goes a sense of proportion,” Cleese said. “And then, as far as I’m concerned, you’re living in 1984.”

For today’s lefties, 1984 wasn’t so much a cautionary tale, as a how-to manual.