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Senior film producer and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam believes Donald Trump’s re-election has allowed people to laugh again.
The 84-year-old director talked about his career, comedy status and the future of his latest film project in a changing cultural landscape in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. When asked if he still feels humorless activists are killing the comedy, Gilliam announced Trump was shocked by the environment.
“I think Trump has changed a lot. He turned the world upside down,” Gilliam said. “I don’t know if people are going to laugh more, but they may laugh less fearfully.”
Gilliam takes the awakening activist who instills a “narrow, self-righteous perspective” over the past few years to instill the fear of comedians.
American film director, actor and producer Terry Gilliam said Trump’s second term released people laughing again in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. (Getty Image)
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“It scares a lot of people, and a lot of people are very timid in telling jokes and making fun of things because if you joke, these people say you’re slamming someone. No, you find humor in humans!” he said.
Gilliam describes how Trump returns to power as a result of derailing his upcoming comedy The Carnival Days, a satire about Satan’s attempt to stop God from destroying humanity, Lan Si’s wake-up culture.
The movie initially comes with subtitles: “It’s fun for those who like to attack.”
Gilliam said: “Well, he’s the latest movie I’m working on on F-. Because it’s a satire of the last few years that have happened over the last few years. He turned it upside down. So he killed my movie.”
Terry Gilliam said Trump has subverted the comedy landscape. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Image)
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“That’s how I approach. I think Trump has destroyed the irony. I mean, how can you ironize what his world is doing?” he said.
He joked that a disclaimer was added to the film, placing it in the so-called “Trump Loss Year” between 2020 and 2024.
The film’s script ridicules the self-righteous awakening activist now outdated, and he elaborates on the deadline.
Another problem is that the script is outdated in some ways because it was a sarcastic sarcasm from two years ago, and Donald Trump is coming, he is Carnival. He made the world reverse the world – everything had to work again. We may have to work hard again because this part of the area is about the wonderful world of Donald, and within Donald’s scope, we will have another stretch. 10 years,” he told the media on Tuesday.
Gilliam lamented the difficulty of making movies stand out in an increasingly cautious entertainment industry. He said we have always lived in a very tense world. “You are not allowed to offend anyone, all executives live in fear, so I started looking elsewhere.”
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Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and John Cleese stand in a 1975 scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Despite his recent comments on Trump, Gilliam is not a fan of the president, calling him a “scammer” and a “idiot” in a 2018 interview with Agence France-Presse.
Gilliam has long opposed political correctness and canceled cultural harm comedy.
Gilliam said in an interview with the Independent in 2020 that he is all diverse but tired of “white people being blamed for all the mistakes in the world.”
“It’s so simplified, I don’t like it. People are offended when I declared that I’m a black man and woman transition. Why?” he joked.
In 2023, he responded to these views from EuroNews, saying people are losing their sense of humor.
“(Activists) are very self-righteous, if you don’t agree with them, then you’re a trans, a gay… no! I’m a phobe-phobe-phobe! I hate it! That’s what I hate!” he said at the time.
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