Context: when asked how he felt about JK Rowlings transphobia he said
One thing: When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man's body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman's Does that prove phobia?"
and
I want to be a Cambodian police woman, is that allowed?
Maybe instead, Cleese should consider that, as a writer, one must take responsibility for one's work, even if that work is intended to be comic, that does not inure the writer from consequence or criticism.