Monty Python’s Gilliam: ‘Conman’ Trump is funnier than us

Author: AFP

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam could be forgiven for thinking the whole Donald Trump presidency is a joke on him.

This is a man after all who renounced his American citizenship in protest at George W. Bush.

“For years I was saying we are getting to the point of having a complete conman for a president,” the film director and animator told AFP, “And now here we are…

“For somebody who likes turning things upside down, I should be enjoying this — but Trump is an idiot,” said the maker of “Brazil” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.

And humour is no defence. Not even the Pythons in their 1960s pomp could match the surreal madcap nature of the presidency, he insisted: “It’s absurd.”

“The reality is funnier than anything one can do,” Gilliam laughed.

“The Life of Brian”, their classic satirical take on a false messiah, now seems all too prophetic, he said, “completely relevant to the world we are living in.

“It makes me feel like I’ve gotten very old and I am living through a nightmare,” he added

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