Monty Python's Terry Gilliam: Trump 'destroyed satire'

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Borowitz and the Onion have to work hard to do satire in today's world

Monty Python's Terry Gilliam: Trump 'destroyed satire'

— USpolitics 🇺🇸 (@uspol.skyfleet.blue) 2025-07-09T20:51:28.162Z

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5392882-monty-pythons-terry-gilliam-trump-destroyed-satire/

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam said President Trump “destroyed satire” in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

“He’s f‑‑‑ed up the latest film I was working on,” the British filmmaker and comedian said in the interview, released Tuesday, when talking about Trump. “Because it was a satire about the last several years when things were going as they were. He’s turned it upside down. So he’s killed my movie.”

“That’s ‘The Carnival at the End of Days,’ right?” The Hollywood Reporter asked Gilliam.

“Yes. I had a subtitle that said: ‘Great fun for all of those who enjoy taking offense.’ That was how I approached it. I think Trump has destroyed satire. I mean, how can you be satirical about what’s going on in the way he’s doing the world?” Gilliam responded.....

In 2020, English actor and comedian Eric Idle, another member of Monty Python, threatened to sue the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) for the use of a Monty Python song in a political attack ad.

Idle posted online that the NRCC had “stolen” Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song” in an ad taking aim at a Democratic representative.

[thebigidea]

1. Ah, bullshit. 9/11 supposedly killed satire too.

Instead we got years of peak TDS and Colbert.

Not surprising his projects are hard to get off the ground, barely any of them have been box office successes.

[harumph]

2. I think the larger point is that so little seems funny anymore.

[blubunyip]

3. Exactly

It’s hard to find any laughs in it. Too real. Too horrible. Unthinkable. Jokes fall flat.

I’m with Terry. These are not bumbling fools. These are criminals and sadists.