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Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, Nutley, Uckfield, East Sussex, UK - June 2/4 2017 - John Cleese (Raphael Moran / Shutterstock.com)

Monty Python: John Cleese Quits Cambridge Union Talk Over "Woke Rules"

The actor and comedian, who hasn't left full curmudgeon mode for some time, pulled out of an upcoming talk at the Cambridge Union scheduled for November 12 citing concerns over "woke rules" over Hitler impersonations he's done on his two signature series, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, decades ago. Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, Nutley, Uckfield, East[...]
International Iron Man Doesn't Know Much About Geography - Or History (UPDATE)

International Iron Man Doesn't Know Much About Geography – Or History

A few days ago Bleeding Cool pointed out how Tony Stark now seemed to be going to Cambridge University – in a town that, for some unexplained reason had a load of East London West Ham United fans chanting in a pub. Well, with the publication of the actual issue today things get more confusing. Previously, in the[...]
Stephen Colbert And If Spider-Man Could Really Climb Walls

Stephen Colbert And If Spider-Man Could Really Climb Walls

Recently, Stephen Colbert had his heart broken when a Cambridge University study said that according to their calculations, Spider-Man would not be able to climb walls That no animal larger than a gecko could do such a thing Why Cambridge University is doing a study about Spider-Man is unclear. Well, the folks at Stanford University have[...]