Who Cares If He Called Him Legless? In Britain 'legless' Means Drunk!!

Once again, in my opinion, the world is replaying that old favorite Much Ado About Nothing. What is the big deal? Anyone who knows who John Cleese is also knows that what the Monty Python crew finds funny is a far cry from what mainstream America laughs at! And after all the complaining about his comment, we find out that all he said was that Pistorius was drunk!! Good for him if he came up with a two-pronged slam on Pistorius! LOL Since when does anyone have a problem with a comedian 'dissing' someone? No one said a word when every comdian in the world made jokes about O.J,; No one had a problem when it was Tony Blake. Let me guess; Is it the fact that his legs have been amputated that make Oscar Pistorius such a special case, that makes him untouchable when it comes to legless jokes? If so, isn't that doing the one thing that most people with disabilities don't want,  singling them out for special treatment?  If that man is strong enough to accomplish all that he has in life, he's damn sure strong enough to withstand the tweets of comedians. 

Monty Python’s John Cleese angers Twitter with inappropriate Pistorius comment

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• FEBRUARY 17, 2013
• BY: CARLA IVES
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John Cleese got his Twitter followers in a snit over a seemingly tasteless tweet regarding Oscar Pistorius

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According to the Huffington Post on Feb. 16, actor/comedian John Cleese, star of TV, films and a Monty Python alumnus really aggravated fans and non-fans alike with a seemingly tasteless tweet about the Oscar Pistorius murder case. Those who remember Monty Python’s Flying Circus know that their specialty was totally tasteless humor.

When the news broke that Oscar Pistoriuswas being charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, Cleese tweeted:

“Oscar’s defence will be that he was absolutely legless at the time.” (Defence is the proper British spelling of defense.)

That tweet garnered almost 2,500 re-tweets and 585 favorites in a very short time, not all of them complimentary.

@LevParikian: “John Cleese broke a twitter silence to make a Pistorius joke. My 11-year-old self, the one who fell in love with Fawlty Towers, is crying.”

@rayascott: “Again, comedians on Twitter: so NOT funny.”

John Cleese followed up with, “Sorry if the last tweet was a bit naughty.”

Was Cleese just following in Monty Python’s footsteps or was it a misunderstanding due to English versus American speech patterns? An update to the story informs readers that the phrase “absolutely legless” is a British expression meaning “drunk.”