“Who are the people you can’t make jokes about?”
Quick as a shot, Maher replies with a knowing laugh: “Muslims. Try that, see what your Twitter feed says.”
A giggling Cleese says: “That’s not saying that you can’t, that just means they’ll kill you.”
"Oh yes, I’ve said that. I’ve made jokes like ‘It’s a religion of peace… there’s a piece of you over there, there’s a piece of you over there'", Maher responds.
Cleese cracks up, as does the audience, but the 75-year-old quickly makes the distinction he was referring to fundamentalists.
He said: “I think it’s terribly important. But the problem is if you make jokes about people who are going to kill you… there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little, isn’t there?
[TOP RATED COMMENT] .... he is not wrong in saying making a joke about Islam is more dangerous than any other religion. In fact doing anything that could be regarded as insulting is dangerous.
There are no other religions I know of in which an small but influential segment go insane and pronounce death sentences, on a fairly regular basis, about cartoons, comedians, rubbish YouTube videos or authors.
Other religions do have insane minorities too - it's just they tend to be ignored by all but a few nutters and they don't hold very much sway. [Huffington Post UK] Read more
