“I’ve been warned recently, don’t go to most university campuses because the political correctness has been taken . . . to the point where any kind of criticism of any individual or group can be labeled cruel  . . . [But] all humor is critical. If we start saying, oh, we musn’t criticize or offend them, then humor is gone, and with humor goes a sense of proportion, and then, as far as I’m concerned, you’re living in ‘1984.’ ”

— “Monty Python” great John Cleese, in a video for the site bigthink.com