John Cleese quits Judea group to form satirical Comedy Party of Gaza.

By Our Entertainment Editor: Arthur Pint

EXPENSIVE EATERY, NORTH LONDON – Veteran comedy actor John Cleese announced this morning that he is leaving the People’s Front of Judea — the fictional revolutionary movement immortalised in Monty Python’s Life of Brian — after what he described as “46 years of ideological infighting and very poor catering.”

Cleese, who once portrayed a leading member of the group in the 1979 Biblical satire. He has claimed in a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter) that he was “tired of endless debates about who’s splitting from whom, and who’s allowed to throw stones at the Romans.” Instead, he plans to launch a new movement called “The Comedy Party of Gaza”, alongside fellow artistic dissidents Roger Waters, Miriam Margolyes, and Maxine Peake — described in the press release as “a coalition of laughter, leftism and light sarcasm.”

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The announcement was accompanied by a grainy video of Cleese in a keffiyeh, declaring: “We shall fight oppression with wit, punchlines, and the occasional dead parrot.” Waters was reportedly composing the party’s theme song, tentatively titled “Another Brick over the Wall.”

Reactions were swift. A spokesperson for the (fictional) People’s Front of Judea issued a statement condemning Cleese’s departure. Calling it “a betrayal of our long struggle against the Judean People’s Front, the Popular Front of Judea, and now apparently the Comedy Party of Gaza.”

Meanwhile, Cleese appeared unrepentant. “It’s not a schism,” he said, “it’s just a creative difference involving several thousand years of history.”

Political analysts have already begun speculating that the new movement could split within a week. Most likely over whether the word “Gaza” should be pronounced with a hard or soft “G.”

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