Terry Gilliam on Python and Renouncing America

Famed director sits down with Peter Travers to talk about the 40th anniversary of Monty Python and many other things. Among them? Renouncing his American citizenship!

[@justinn9769]

Not every joke in a Terry Gilliam film or Python sketch is funny to me but some of the jokes were so well crafted and so funny my brain went numb when I saw them. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the creation of these international treasures! These enduring works of art! You have enriched the lives of many.

[@bokehintheussr5033]

"i know whats going on inside of me, and i dont want to analyse it, i want to use it".._ spoken like a true artist.

[@kirkhensley5870]

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, half of The Holy Grail, my God, the work this guy did. If I list 25 of my favorite movies half of them were directed by this man and Ridley Scott. Favorite line out of Time Bandits: "Oh! So that's what an invisible barrier looks like!"

[@davidbowman4259]

A lot of us are considering renouncing our U.S. citizenship. It should be obvious why.

[@Jackferrett6781]

How has Terry to this day not lost his accent in the 40 years of living in the UK

[@clanofclams2720]

Adults don't lose accents

[@Jackferrett6781]

U.S.A. TIME uh yes they do. Portia de Rossi has had an American accent for as long as she’s been famous

[@clanofclams2720]

@@Jackferrett6781 let me rephrase: adults losing accents is incredibly uncommon

[@Jackferrett6781]

U.S.A. TIME not when you’re from one country and spend a lot of time in another. Gandhi’s accent in the Gandhi movie went from being British to Indian

[@clanofclams2720]

@@Jackferrett6781 as I said, it is *possible,* but for adults it is quite uncommon, as the older you get, the more challenging it becomes.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

When Graham finally sobered up, he did an amazing speaking tour that came to the little community college just outside Chicago where I was working lights and sound for concert events. It was maybe 1981, I was 20 years old and had been loving the Pythons for half my life. And when I couldn't help but do my impression of Cleese's preamble to the Cheese Shop sketch "...curtailing my Walpoling activities..." as we were loading up equipment after the show, Chapman (whom I didn't see as I was hustling those cases) stopped and said, "Who is that absurd person?" An hour later, I found myself at an after-party with the great man, and I joined the queue at the small chess table where Graham had ensconced himself. He smiled when I sat down, remarking, "Oh, it's you again." Three moves into our "match," he took the pipe out of his mouth and said, "You don't actually play chess, do you?" When I snorted a loud laugh and shook my head, he said, "Well, just keep on pretending and no one will notice as you pry me with your devious questions." I got to talk to one of my true idols, one to one, for a good 15 minutes. One of the happiest days of my life.

[@samdavepollard]

great story; thanks for sharing; greetings from UK

[@Hugh_Morris]

I'm use to hearing British people with hints of American in their accent, it's weird the other way round.

[@ian-op5fv]

I kind of speak in a similar manner to what you describe. But I'm not sure why I speak that way.

[@IanSmith603]

savage1493 Pretension?

[@ian-op5fv]

Ian Smith maybe. It's mostly to avoid being monotone.

[@terminalfrost3645]

+George Havenhand It sounds fuckin awful XD

[@BenjaminWirtz]

+George Havenhand You should look up the transatlantic accent. It is mostly a lost art but you do have people like Kesley Grammer who can still make use of it. Also, something's up with Johnny Depp's accent and I'm not sure what.

[@rorypreston7178]

The Beatles of comedy

[@midnightmatinee8154]

Except Monty Python members actually stayed friends

[@mads9270]

Midnite Matinee So did the Beatles after the breakup...

[@loganwarner176]

i say the pink floyd of comedy

[@tomfurstyfield]

That choice of renouncing America seems like an even better choice with age

[@trexguy]

Thanks for the post!! Terry Gilliam is a GENIUS, he made BRAZIL...the best film of all time!!!!!

[@mainmast8955]

like choosing among your children.

[@rosekeyes3189]

I saw Brazil when I was 7 years old. We had it on the Beta. I've seen it so much that I have the dialogue memorized. When I was very young, we had an explosion of imaginative video from the new Twilight Zones to his stuff. I was lucky to grow up on it. Its hard to like the work of Micheal Bay when you started out with Terry Gilliam.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Respect. It’s my favourite film. Blew my mind when I saw it as a kid. 😎

[@MrMeepzor]

Love Terry G. If I could make films I would want to make them just like him. Part of me lives in the strangely familiar worlds his films have built in my mind.

[@EdPlays1997]

Absolutely right about the subject of offending people.

[@avastyer]

To all who call him a traitor or a tax dodger. The main reason is that he hated the way American politics was going (i.e run by rightwing sociopaths). He had dual citizenship for years, paid tax in both countries for years - but finally felt that he didn't want to be American any more. And why should he pay tax in both countries, leaving his wife with much less, if he's sick of the way one is run and has renounced citizenship? Concentrate on all your corporations that dodge tax every day.

[@mikearchibald744]

To all who call him a traitor or a tax dodger.... I doubt he could care less. But yeah, Amazon.com, 11 billion in income, paid no tax. Netflix even has its bandwidth paid for them by telecom infrastructure, 850 million in income, no taxes. But yeah, a single guy who says he doesn't want to fund a war machine is a traitor! Thats TOO funny, but very pythonesque.

[@Dios67]

UK tax is better? As far as "right-wing sociopaths", like the American political left are supposed to be the good guys, lol. It's all the same.

[@3506Dodge]

It takes a long time to fully end your U.S. citizenship. He likely couldn't have done it any faster.

[@erickthompson7815]

Who called him a traitor?

[@jsward96]

@@Dios67 The UK doesn't tax it's citizens abroad, while the US is one of two countries in the world that does. Not a judgement on which system is better, or who pays more. But being an American citizen has the potential to really suck when you live abroad.

[@jackthebassman1]

Such a brilliant and funny man, thank you Terry🤣😳👍❤️✌️

[@bloodcell9]

Terry Gilliam's 73 years old has lived in the UK for 42+years.........his loved ones i.e his family are British and live in Britain.....his NOT stupid, cause he knows that at any point in his life now, he could die. That being the case if he should die then his wife and kids in Britain would have to sell their house (as well as other family things of valve) to PAY ALL THAT AMERICAN BACK TAX, and like he said that's just NOT FAIR to his family that if he should die they would find themselves in large debt to the county of his birth and NOT THEIRS! Putting it bluntly Blood is thicker then Water....Terry Gilliam will always be an American, just not the American, Americans want him to be. I wish him and his kin all the luck in the world.........nuff said

[@eddyspagetti9899]

so... will his estate be liquidated by the IRS no matter where he dies?

[@pharaohbhang1172]

Did you miss the part where he said that that's part of the reason why he renounced his citizenship? So that his family wouldn't have to pay those taxes. They don't have to pay taxes to a country he's no longer a citizen of, hence why he renounced his US citizenship.

[@pharaohbhang1172]

Yes, he should. But let's get real: leftists are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. I guess it's easier morally to just renounce your country rather than actually stand by what you advocate for.

[@waynej2608]

@@pharaohbhang1172 Hmm, I think it's the right wing, who are the hypoctites!

[@ahaherman]

@regco1 what video were you watching? The primary reason was that he would leave his wife without a home from US taxes when he dies.

[@deanchristensen4783]

Thought Terry Gilliam was British and Terry Jones was the American for the longest time.

[@Jellybeantiger]

His cartoons were genius on Monty Python.

[@MsPardaillan]

I love the last sentence !

[@synchc]

anyone know where we can go to discuss things after youtube died?

[@NelsonClick]

There is no shame or glory in renouncing American citizenship. The renouncing process is there for people like Terry whose fate, career and life's pursuits have taken them beyond American borders. America is not a prison.

[@bioniclebenable]

come off it mate you're talking absolute bollocks, I bet you don't even live here

[@bioniclebenable]

I guess you're just another ignorant Yank. Like your country even has a culture to defend, unless its gun crime and obesity. Muslims make up less than 5% of the UK population so how does that make us a 'Muslim enclave'. Anyway the sooner society moves away from all religion the better I say. But carry on believing whatever news sources you use and whatever shite your beloved Trump spouts.

[@bioniclebenable]

Can you still explain to me how I'm living in a 'muslim enclave' thay I'm not aware of? Also why all this hate on Muslims, I have Muslim friends and they are decent people. Isn't your hatred of Muslims no different to the Nazi's hatred of Jews. Are you a Nazi?

[@bioniclebenable]

Mate that's just not true though its not like people of every other race and creed are just going to disappear in the UK. Again you haven't explained how I'm living in a 'muslim enclave' which just seems idiotic since Muslims are actually under represented in the House of Commons. Again I'd ask what's so bad if the muslim population is increasing, yes there are problems but the majority are fair hardworking people. It just seems your rhetoric towards muslims who are somehow 'taking over' my country is dangerously close to the Nazi rhetoric towards Jews.

[@zeeblue1220]

Great job, you two, for turning a neutral comment into a idiotic hate battle. No, the UK is not a Muslim enclave and we Americans have a culture to defend that's not just overused stereotypes according to you. You're the reason none of us can catch a break.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

"Everyones afraid to be offended" , man he said this 13 years ago.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

Terry Gilliam the underrated member of Monty Python.

[@DrLazerbeam]

Terry Jones was the most underrated member.

[@fredricclack7137]

OMG, Terry, most Sane 🇺🇸ns feel the same!

[@DanielM196]

song in beginning?

[@TheDFixx]

I would leave the US if I lived there too. Well done, Gilliam!

[@dhh488]

Mad Genius.

[@SigmaSigmaGnarly]

@greggh How is it a dodge if he doesnt live there?

[@fredricclack7137]

MPFC brought our TKE Ωθ chapter together every Sunday night!

[@emmarose4234]

MY FAVORITE PYTHON!

[@cooljackster7390]

4:35 I couldn’t agree more

[@brianjohnson4929]

Love him!😛😜😃😊

[@ironjoker101]

I think it's pitiful how some Americans treat their citizens as property, and if one chooses to leave by their own free will they are branded a 'traitor.' None of that bollocks here in the UK.

[@predcon1]

Yes, because the UK is an island paradise, where cops stand by as people get their heads chopped off.

[@ironjoker101]

predcon1 I never said the UK was perfect, no country is. But we don't take ownership of our citizens.

[@predcon1]

I'd hardly call a few angry people with a misplaced sense of patriotism "taking ownership".

[@ironjoker101]

It's not the people so much as the way the government treats their citizens after they renounce US citizenship. For example, despite being a foreigner in the eyes of the Americans, I could live over there longer as an outsider than an ex-US citizen can.

[@PatrickSing]

Yes, oh blighty where you can go to jail for a tweet.

[@thylacine88gemini85]

Amazing how all the comments are from Americans offended that anyone would renounce American citizenship. He's not stamping on the flag in this interview. This sort of over-reaction is exactly why some Americans choose to live elsewhere. It also enables them to gain a different perspective on the US. It's his choice. Get over yourselves.

[@patrickharris8180]

I am an American and I do not care.

[@jorgefiguerola1239]

Goes to that idea of delegation but great if you either have a fortune to work with or those deliriously supportive. Seems best to at least do several shorts and be the jack-of-all-trades as did Kubrick, Spielberg, snd Scorsese. Builds character and with that rapport.

[@MockBlue]

It's where your happiest being really.... it's his call, and good luck to the guy.

[@indieshack4476]

Yeah, aside from the US, Eritrea is the only other country that has citizen-based taxation, because it's such a blatantly absurd and unfair arrangement. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was technically a US citizen since he was born in Manhattan; he used to complain like crazy about being double-taxed and ended up renouncing his US citizenship. As much as he makes a joke about it and disliked republican presidents, it couldn't have been easy for Gilliam, but he did it for his family. Good guy.

[@Jefff72]

The US is the rare country that makes its citizens pay taxes when they are not living there.

[@albear972]

Yeah, that's mega bullshit on the part of the greedy ass US Government.

[@pjmlegrande]

Greedy bugger of a country

[@regco1]

@greggh he didn't renounce it as a tax dodge, he clearly states that it was because of Bush and his political policies. He states the tax reasons as an aside.

[@versioncity1]

I you haven't seen Tideland I'd recommend it. One of his lesser known films, but I loved it.

[@charrybuckle4077]

He reminds me of bryan Cranston I'm not sure why

[@brothadarrell8315]

Death is the ultimate laughter we are all going to experience. Being dead is being "in on the joke" which is Life

[@cebruthius]

Bush remaking Brazil lolololo

[@sigfurt]

@CapHusky he didnt complain about high taxes. he didnt wanna pay taxes to usa when he lives in the uk.

[@alphaprawns]

@xXxEpicFailxXx Yeah he was the director mainly I think

[@jarredmedeiros2768]

not the knights who say knee!? THE SAME!

[@deoproximo1572]

4:40, Jerry Seinfeld made that exact same criticism, it's gotten even worse since 2009.

[@fritzidler9871]

Traitor? Tax dodger? That's how America began, folks. Remember? And now America is the new England, taxing its citizens without representation. Because both parties have become power-mad greed-heads. Want to do something about it? What? How? Start a violent revolution? Good luck. Terry Gilliam is only a film maker, not a politician, or revolutionary. I haven't seen a Terry Gillam movie since 12 Monkeys. Not his best. In fact, it's one of my least favorite time travel movies, ever. Give me The Fisher King any day. Not to mention Brazil. When I first heard he wanted to film Don Quixote, I groaned. But just learned it's called, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, based on the book, loosely. Which is a good sign. Brazil was based on 1984 only loosely. A book he said, he never actually read. Is it hoping too much Terry has never actually read the Cervantes novel?

[@DenisYutbr]

Exactly. America had no real reasons to separate from Britain. American history started from treason. And that's how American "elite" acts till these days.

[@waynej2608]

I'm certain he did. It's a great film, too. Worth the wait.

[@ericanderson3883]

5:00 if you want to skip to the renouncement part.

[@jacktimothy7627]

Really irritates me the way Americans say "pythOn". But then again it probably irritates them the way we say "pythun".

[@3506Dodge]

Americans pronounce words as they're spelled. They don't pronounce Geography [jography] for example.

[@Pantano63]

@@3506Dodge"Americans pronounce words as they're spelled.", this is a joke, right?

[@3506Dodge]

@@Pantano63 Anyone who calls a person serving customers in a story a "clark" is a "jark."

[@3506Dodge]

@Jack The Film Fanatic Why?

[@waynej2608]

A rose, by any other name... what irritates me, after all this time, is Still, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@mightymartianca]

The Undertaker Sketch is the ultimate Chapman f-u to society

[@Tabish29]

Didn't spike Milligan come b4 python? Y doesnt he garner similar accolades?

[@mightymartianca]

Because Spike was genuinely unbalanced, and for every moment of brilliance were bizarre misfires.

[@JK-gu3tl]

US tax citizens who spent most of the year in another country. Eritrea's dictatorship is the only other country to do this.

[@pabloagustinpedrazamassofr1854]

No comprendo cómo puede evaluarse el desempeño profesional de un individuo interponiendo sus convicciones ideológicas. Primero, casi todos esos juicios están dados desde una perspectiva antropocéntrica, y por tal, fuertemente subjetiva. Volviendo, fue el creador de filmes tan destacados y admirados en países, principalmente Occidentales, con un gran gusto por el cine como el mío, a decir, Argentina (no digo "buen cine", digo "cine" a secas, puesto que no quiero que suene contradictorio y adentrarme en una discusión axiológica). De hecho sus filmes no solo ilustran o nos ayudan a comprender con cierto grado de relevancia el pensamiento de aquel tiempo, sino que también han sido motor de nuevas discusiones y teorías del pensamiento, ligadas a la concepción del hombre sobre los regímenes y su aceptación/resignación, al concepto de "libertad", o a la comprensión (o no) de la locura. Películas como Brazil, 12 Monos o Pánico y locura en Las Vegas son abrazadas por la crítica hasta hoy, y motivo de colección en cualquier videoteca.

[@juanaltredo2974]

+Pablo Agustín Pedraza Masso Frávega ajá....

[@FirstPlace97]

Yea.. why analyze it I suppose.

[@albear972]

I've seen British films/BBC TV clips of him from the 1970's and he had quite the British accent in them. Here not so much.

[@norwegianblue4714]

His politics may be suspect, but he is still incredibly funny, creative, talented, and good natured. Most importantly, he was part of the greatest comedy troupe in history, bar none, and miles apart from the rest. So, God bless him, and thanks for the memories.

[@guillermosanchez8843]

"His politics may be suspect" Only to imbeciles like you.

[@TulseLuper]

30 days a year? Are you kidding me!?

[@eksortso]

I love this guy, politics notwithstanding... we haven't had a decent president since ???? Mick Jagger faced a similar situation, only in reverse, a few years ago. Except he could only stay 10 days in the UK without serious ramifications! Don't know if that's changed since he was knighted. Maybe Congress could give Terry Gilliam a medal or something...

[@globalcombattv]

He renounced America but embraced Downing Street, Westminster and the fucking Queen. Same shit in a different package!

[@timothy8017]

there's some orson welles video on here where he says all of the bad things they say about america are true AND all the good things they say are true too there's room for it all here or something to that effect

[@waynej2608]

There was even room for Welles, in his larger years.

[@404ServerError]

Looking at some of the comments... thin skin indeed... pathetic

[@patrickharris8180]

I bet you are every bit as thin-skinned.

[@mikearchibald744]

@@patrickharris8180 Thin skinned people have rights too......we already sunburn far easier, and shaving is a bloody disaster (lterally).

[@waynej2608]

Yeah, Gilliam nailed that one.

[@dildonius]

Funny that in 2009 Terry Gilliam discussed renouncing America; and 10 years later in 2019, his fellow Python John Cleese is renouncing the UK/England. For similar reasons too, no less...

[@n0denz]

That ArticFan1 guy.

[@EgbertWilliams]

Hey, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson and a plethora of others became American citizens and make their home there. Fair play to everyone.

[@jasondelvaux3036]

I admire Terry so much already... but even moreso now that I know that he renounced the U.S. Of course, the U.K. isn't terribly better (in foreign affairs, they mostly do whatever the U.S. says & their going down the same dark capitalist path), but still... I'd become Scottish in a second if I had the chance.

[@coryspang7548]

Same here.

[@whynot7394]

👍😘🤗

[@SigmaSigmaGnarly]

@xXxEpicFailxXx He was patsy in holy grail

[@sunnyvegas2778]

Complains about bush AND the estate tax is the same sentence?!! Oh the irony!!! 😂

[@squilliamdafoe4648]

I too live in America and I gotta say... I wish I didn't

[@rods6741]

Phantom Shadow Buh-bye!

[@muffdiver240]

@Phantom Shadow: I gotta say... I wish you didn't

[@mikearchibald744]

That says it all about the current state of america, when somebody says they don't like it, the response is to leave. Isn't that what they were saying in germany in 1932? The GOOD thing about america, in fact the main GREAT thing about america is the number who don't respond with such balderdash and actually have the freedom to try to change that. Consider how the chinese are lobbying for labour rights-by doing videos saying "in case I disappear". But people really shouldn't mistake the politics of a country for the country itself. All over the world governments have essentially been taken over and no longer represent their constituents-and thats just as true in Great Britain as it is in the United States. But on that note, LOTS of cool places to live in the world. Portugal is nice. So is Norway and even Vietnam.

[@KirkFields]

🤭 #TerryGilliamYAY✌️

[@3506Dodge]

Renouncing citizenship is not renouncing a nation.This interview occured in America! He's renouncing his legal relationship to that nation. Gillium isn't boycotting America, it's film industry, or it's money.

*Gilliam *its

[@Bobbyjones2345]

traded terry gilliam for john cleese? fair trade? definitely not :)

[@kirkhensley5870]

Wow. That last line he said could bring our whole country down. Forget woke policy.

[@ploppill34]

Renouncing? LOL it have a lot more impact if you just have said nothing instead

[@Raison_d-etre]

Only rich people need to renounce their citizenship, because most estates are too small to be taxed in America.

[@MotionPictureMuse]

Simply not true.

[@Raison_d-etre]

MotionPictureMuse You're simply wrong.

[@syholsinger]

Not true, anything over ~90k/yr you have to start paying tax to the US. Not exactly "rich". Especially if you think it isn't for any services consumed, but just for simply having an American passport. Either way, you must file taxes every year even if you don't. No matter how long you have lived in the another country.

[@Dragitall]

Peter Travers managing to try being clever and manages to insult his guest right out of the box.

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

A jailed person's admission of guilt IS the cops' case against that jailed person. A jailed person is a prisoner. Policemen are captors. If the cops had an actionable case against the jailed person then the jailed person's admission of guilt would be unnecessary.

orga(ni)sm

[@cheekyegg]

Terrys Welsh, so theres no hope for him 😂😂

[@america1st721]

now a days every body gets so offended...that was 20 years ago...monty python and mel brooks would never survive.

[@Pantano63]

I thought had taken interest in the programming language Python lmao use full phrases, people!

[@wovfm]

Gilliam will always have his pioneering work with Python and Brazil, one of the few classics to come out of the 80s along with the suspenseful 12 Monkeys but the rest of his work has been heavy handed, abrasive and ultimately disappointing. His hip factor and pedigree cannot disguise the overkill in most of the work not mentioned above.

[@finaoo1167]

I always thought he was the least funny of the six.

[@bobgnote1]

What "miracle?" Williams was more surveillance cult fluff. Where's the singing-fat-man-gets-popped cartoon, finally? GET IT UP HERE. There's a FAT MAN FATWA, on us. You need the exactly proper giggle-goof, mi tardies.

[@gurgy3]

One does not choose the country in which they are born, if terry chooses to renounce his American citizenship then that his own personal business. He shouldn't be judged for that. However, he should now accept that any opinion he holds on american politics are also irrelevant since he has opted out of the system.

[@lynnturman8157]

+gurgy3 Any opinion he holds is irrelevant? Did he renounce his ability to think?

[@terminalfrost3645]

+gurgy3 i don't believe he really wanted because of his opinions on america , i think generally he did it for tax reasons, sinse he lives in london or whatever and has for decades it just easier, basically when he dies his family would get a big tax bill.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

+gurgy3 He doesn't get to vote here anymore. That's really all you'd need to satisfy. If we told Brits they should stay out of our politics and they agreed to... the internet would go silent.

[@Frankowillo]

So that means YOUR opinions on any International politics are irrelevant, you only get to have an opinion on American politics? Do you realise how utterly stupid your comment is? Do you realise comments like this, by Americans like you, are why so many people loathe Americans?

[@stevehill3373]

In a world of the easily offended, comedy is dying.

[@RobertGoodin]

Wow! somebody who actually left the country because he didn't agree with the current political atmosphere. Bravo !!!! bravo I say! Now, if only we can get more of his colleagues, in Hollywood, to keep there word and follow him. Could you imagine Alec Baldwin only here for thirty days a year!! Glorious.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Robert Goodin Stanley Kubrick did the same thank god

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

Peter Travers writes movie reviews for Rolling Stone; and he never fails to write the most idiotic film reviews of any film critic. Pick any three film reviews he's done and you'll probably finding yourself asking "who is this twit? Did he even watch the film?" He seems to be a better interviewer here than he is a reviewer, though I have no idea why Rolling Stone continues to publish his reviews, unless they can't find anyone else to do them, or they have never read them....

[@TickleMeElmo55]

Terry, you're a grand director; I immensely enjoy your style and your scripts. Too bad your politics makes you sound like a typical Hollywood moron ... Even though you seem to hate Hollywood. Ironic. You're only "away" from Hollywood geographically, but you very much fit in when it comes to talking about America. If it ain't your money you're investing in your movies, expect those that do have it to be very critical about where it goes and who it goes to. It's called BUSINESS, Terry. You should've learned & accepted that by now. Movie making ain't all about artsy movies. There's something called profit.

[@harrisonchapman6040]

You're asking an artist to drop the art and become a businessman, but without the artist, the businessman has nothing to sell. Additionally, I'm sure many people would renounce their citizenship if they had the means. It's not such a crazy idea to not want to be American anymore. What's the benefit? You're a wage slave with limited freedoms and fewer choices in a dwindling class with little to no hope of improving your economic lot in life PLUS the world hates you because of your government's imperialism. So really, what's so crazy about renouncing your citizenship?

[@ROOKTABULA]

"Too bad your politics makes you sound like a typical Hollywood moron ... Even though you seem to hate Hollywood. Ironic." You just proved what a Flag waving dolt you are. You ascribe his UTTERLY common sense views to the same Hollywood that you then go on to admit he has no use for!! Careful you don't get friction burns on your knob pumping your flag in blind fervour.

[@Superabound2]

TickleMeElmo55 His politics sound fairly Libertarian to me. Anti-war, and anti- unnecessary taxation

[@greggh]

What an idealistic guy. He renounces his US citizenship as a tax dodge.

[@TragicDeskTop]

4:45 guy complains that people are so scared of offending and it ruining comedy... 6:18 guy makes a joke and instantly qualifies it to avoid offending.... check mate mr terry..

[@wildnites558]

....AND STAY OUT!!!! Punk.

[@jamsiek]

Triggered?

[@GrocMax]

hyp·o·crite/ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ [hip-uh-krit] noun 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. 2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

[@clanofclams2720]

Can't find one of those in this video

[@AapVanDieKaap]

haha Americans cant say Python

[@clanofclams2720]

haha Brits cant say aluminum

[@jamesdettmann94]

@@clanofclams2720 it's spelled aluminium fool

[@rparker8761]

His cartoons in Monty Python are better than his movies.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Too bad that Rolling Stone is total garbage now.

[@michaeldean2754]

Terry Gilliam is proof "Ignorance is Bliss"!!! All of his films are cheesy and cheap.

[@jamsiek]

He really triggered you 🤣

[@mightymartianca]

Munchausen may have been cheesy, but it definitely wasn't cheap!

[@RyanKentBarnhart]

Gilliam is such a drama queen. Renouncing his citizenship was pretty stupid and pointless.

[@guillermosanchez8843]

He explained his reasons and they were not pointless.

[@tekcomputers]

Not wanting his wife and children to have to sell his property to pay the estate taxes that would be owed to a country he doesn't reside in any longer and had not for 40 years seems like a pretty fucking good reason to me.

[@24572]

As someone who lives abroad, paying taxes to the US while not even living there is a massive pain in the ass. I know that Terry threw politics into his decision as well, but the tax reason alone made it a good decision, especially since he doesn't even live there.