Monty Python gangster, Terry Gilliam, expresses outrage that the BBC "comedy controller" disparaged the Monty Python cast as "six Oxbridge white blokes" during an explanation of how the BBC will be "diverse" unlike the Python shows. Gilliam responded that from now he will be a "black lesbian in transition" (BLT). John Cleese's comment is priceless:
“Unfair! We were remarkably diverse FOR OUR TIME ... We had three grammar-school boys, one a poof, and Gilliam, though not actually black, was a Yank. And NO slave-owners.”
