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Nice Find! HatTip to Dave Lull.

Before that, he’s writing his next one-man show, Why There is No Hope, a ‘cutting-edge’ satirical production based on philosopher and finance mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Black Swan theory about unexpected events of large magnitude. Popularised in the aftermath of the credit crunch, Taleb’s theory for Cleese essentially boils down to the idea that we can never predict the unexpected and that so-called experts are invariably ‘hopeless’. ‘The implication is that there’s no hope if we go on the way we are, and that kind of research lends itself to very funny conclusions. [Taleb] is an unbearably vain main of course, but what he says is absolutely fantastic.’