John Cleese had his microphone taken away at an SXSW comedy event in Austin, TX for having the audacity to joke about reparations, according to the Daily Mail.
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” he deadpanned. “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400.”
Cleese asked, “You do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”…