James Dreyfus on being 'erased' from Dr Who: 'When people say cancel culture doesn't exist I laugh'' 

I have a soft spot and great respect for James Dreyfus. He comes across as a delightful man. Andrew is also a credit to GB news as an entertaining interviewer.

James Dreyfus is a criminally underrated actor and a champion of womens rights which in this clown world makes him a hero in my book. The vitriol he receives on Twitter has got to be seen to be believed. He has lost work, friends and probably many nights sleep for sticking his head above the parapet and I for 1 appreciate his bravery and integrity. He's also done a lot for animal welfare - what a wonderful human being. Thank you too Andrew - I've never seen this segment before but your interviewing technique is excellent 👏👏😊❤

What a pleasant change, a genuine actor explaining how things should be, and not how they have to be. If only we could have more of this in every aspect of life. Bravo.

Andrew Doyle is one of the UK's greatest treasures. He interviews other people as well as he expresses HIMSELF whilst being the interviewee. Great questions, great listener, well-spoken, terrific sense of humour and a really well integrated thinker.💌💎

What an absolutely fabulous man. It is scandalous how he has been treated by these utter psychos.

Great British comedy actor....not many left....kids now will have to Google comedy soon!!!

I love James Dreyfus. Straight to the point, no nonsense, tells it like it is. Also a highly talented actor with great range, and absurdly funny. This was a great interview!

James Dreyfus, a very decent, sensible man, who deserves more TV roles. Thankfully his voice echoes the vast majority of people outside of Tw@tter. Yes, the @ is supposed to be an 'a'.

A very decent actor who should have much more work than he gets.

'I thought the future would have less labels, not more' - James Dreyfus. This is exactly how it should be. The gay community just wanted freedom to live their lives the way they wanted to. Nothing more, and yet now people in the LGBT+ expect they should be given the best of everything or anything or else. That is not community, that is far left Fascism.

I still love Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.

My god, James is a common sense guy. Really interesting interview.

Thanks James for signing the letter regarding the disgraceful abuse JK Rowling received. Clearly a risky decision in your industry. I'm sure she is grateful. A true gent. And a brilliant comic actor who entertained me throughout my childhood and teens. We want more!

Love this man! James could have easily kept quite and his career would have continued on without impact but he's a man of principle. Unfortunately that means he has lost out financially. What a twisted world when the brave are pilloried and the cowardly lauded.

He's just a lovely bloke. What you see here, is what you get, I believe.

James is wonderful and I am so happy he has the backbone to stand with us all. Absolutely adore him ❤️

Enjoyed the interview, James talked a lot of common sense, very down to earth, seemed a genuinely nice person, hope to see a lot more of him

I can’t recall ever seeing such an interview with James before. He comes across very well as an intelligent thoughtful man.

Funny that Dr Who is a BBC production and Stonewall guide the BBC on how woke to be! Cancel culture works both ways, I cancelled my BBC licence 3 years ago and will never support them in anyway going forward. The BBC deserve everything coming to them.

Mr Dreyfus seems to be a very decent bloke prepared to defend people against the vindictive wokerati. We need more people like him.

I'm really glad I watched that. Excellent interviewer + fascinating guest = compelling viewing.

We need more down to earth common sense gay folk like James in our time of stupid.

I needed an hour listening to this great actor who talks so directly about things instead of skirting around the issues

A very enlightening interview. These people cancelling guys like James Dreyfus are the real fascists.

Let's just put Dr Who out of its misery and then bring it back in ten years with Laurence Fox as the Thirteenth Doctor and James as the Master.

James Dreyfuss is a wonderful man and actor. I'd watch him in anything.

LOVE him!!! Saw him in Cabaret in 2007 and he was amazing - such a nice guy to his fans too :)

Erasing his name from the CDs and such is absolute doublethink, erase records of it and people will just believe it never happened?

'As I've got older I've got wetter'. How rare and refreshingly lacking in ego this man is.

I have so much more respect for James now I see him as an actor and not just a gay actor that he has always been portrayed as

As an occasional theatre-goer I'm quite happy to see straight characters played by gay actors - Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Ian McKellen for example - so I can't see that there's any problem in straight actors playing gay characters. It's acting, dear boy!

I love James Dreyfus, it's good to see him back on tv, he's lovely and so funny. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie is still amazing!

I've always liked James. He's a brilliant actor and a good, principled guy.

With two people like this there is hope.

When Radcliffe and the other two little snots dissociated themselves from JK Rowling, I posted on my facebook page something to the effect that they were arrogant, ungrateful nonentities, who'd be nothing without her. My grown-up (50+) friends all agreed with me, and one of about 50 said that they'd been good for her too. (Seriously?) The biggest backlash came from the under-35s, who ignored my point and attacked her for her beliefs, which I don't think were what they thought they were. One is a girl who wants to be a boy, and said JKR wants people like her - sorry, them - dead. Impressive that a generation that can't write decent English is so talented at creating straw man arguments.

I think James is a great actor, plays a good bad guy, very underrated.

Great interview, probably the best yet on GB news

Love James, such a breath of fresh air.

Did not realises who this was until they showed a clip of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. He is a very underrated actor and in this interview he expressed a lot of common sense.

Strange that I think of a man being brave just for signing a rational letter.Signed,a woman with a cervix.

In 1984 Winston had a job “erasing” people from history.

It is time to cancel WOKENESS!!

What a down to earth guy …. Harmless and yet sooooo talented

Great interview. Could have listened to more

JK Rowling canceled! She just has to write another Harry Potter book, boom, uncanceled.

Cathy Burke is the most underrated British actor ever.

The way James was cancelled is nothing less than Orwellian.

Please please please have James on again. He's welcome as a regular guest You could have so many great conversations between the two of you. Superb comedy actor and all round great guy. Down to earth, caring and, most importantly, talks a lot of sense 👍

A good bloke.

An absolute treasure of an actor! I'm sorry to hear James had to suffer abuse like this.

This was an excellent interview, thank-you.

James didn't have to get involved but he did, he's a wonderful eloquent human being. We need more like him.

Was terrific in the Thin Blue Line as PC Goody

Notice how some people get upset if a straight person plays a gay person but are silent when a gay person plays a straight person, not that it should actually matter.

James, be assured there are more of us that agree with your statements than you inbox might show, but unfortunately, empty vessels make the most noise. Keep going, you are a talented actor.

Love this man. He's a great actor and so principled

Dreyfus’ comments on how beautiful Supernova is could not be more true. Tucci and Firth are fab; and Dreyfus plays such a nice character. Everyone should watch it.

As has long been the case, those who scream and shout about 'tolerance' the loudest, are indeed the most intolerant of all. Respect to you James, look forward to seeing you on screen soon.

Gosh! I've followed James for a while but watching this, he is just so likeable. Good on you James for standing up for women, children and LGB.

This conversation is the perfect example of rationality and humanity. Whoever are those people who seek to undermine and cancel? Knowing such people must be a wonderful experience.

James’ performance in Gimme Gimme Gimme is vastly underrated. He was absolutely brilliant.

I always liked James Dreyfus, but my respect for the man has jumped leaps and bounds after this interview. What a sensible, mature, reasonable, conscientious, and all together wonderful person. It seems he's one of the better people in entertainment and I wish him as much success in the future as he can bare.

What an interesting and honest man James Dreyfus is. A great actor and well deserving of good roles and awards.

Listening to James Dreyfus gives me so much encouragement in a world that is becoming increasingly bizarre.

Love James and all that he has acted in, dreadful the way he has been treated by the cancel culture brigade.

wokeism has killed Dr Who so sad as when it kicked off again with Eccleston it was amazing. It finished when Tennant left. The rest just went downhill slowly to oblivion

What great TV! Thank you GB News.

JD....what a fantastic fella, my heart goes out to thank him for all the laughs over the years. Wish I could shake his hand.

Doyle is a courageous comedic genius/satirist and an adroit political observer.

Drefus and Burke since the 90s were alienated from the luvvies, they were never fully accepted, and always looked down upon.

He was my favourite character in the thin blue line plus it was one of the most diverse shows at the time without making it the primary objective and it worked brilliantly

Gimme, Gimme is such a wonderful show - one of the best of the 90s. And James is a lovely guy.

I always mind the Mars bar gag. Hahaha in the thin blue line. Brilliant. I cancelled my TV licence over two years ago, not giving the BBC a penny is a joy.

Nice guy. Good actor.

Stalin used to cancel his opposition and remove them from history.

Lovely man and a rather underrated actor. I hope there are some bright casting agents out there that haven't gone completely mad yet and book him for another job soon.

Vastly underrated. If only there were more actors like him with good old fashioned common sense which seems sadly lacking these days. A thorough gentleman and genuine nice guy.

I wonder if, in the name of authenticity, you need a scene where a thug beats a gay guy half to death, you actually find a thug and pay him to beat a gay guy half to death. Wonder if the gay press would go for that?

Well, here's a first. A clip from GB news that I really enjoyed and agreed with, largely because it doesn't involve Nigel Farage! I loved Gimme, Gimme and as a gay man, didn't find it the least bit "offensive," and nor did any other gay person I knew and kudos to the amazing Kathy Burke for saying "fuck 'em!" about the critical Gay Press, at an awards ceremony. Jonathan Harvey was/is a brilliant writer, although I much prefer his later work, "Beautiful People," about 2 gay lads growing up in Reading in the 90's. Very funny, but with moments of real pathos. I also think that Dreyfus is spot on when it comes down to freedom of speech. Contrary to popular myths peddled by some on the right, not all of us "lefties" believe in "cancel culture," or de-platforming people. Challenge people? Yes, of course, but expect to be challenged back. Silencing people whose views you don't agree with doesn't change people's views and sounds to me, very much like the sort of bullying/fascist tactics that we're supposed to be against. I know exactly where I stand on the issues of gender equality, LGBT rights and racism (and no, I'm not in favour of "colour blind casting" or worried about "cultural appropriation" that's been going on in Music for centuries and is a good thing, IMO!) and am happy to argue my corner. But, I have no intention of denying anybody else the same rights! There should be no reason why we can't talk openly and candidly about any issue, and have a sensible discussion, without people on *all* sides of the debate getting hysterical and deriding anybody who opposes us as "haters!" I *hate* that expression! 😉 We might even change a few minds, or have ours changed? I might even end up supporting Nigel Farage! 🤣 OK< that's maybe going a bit *too* far!

As a "straight white Gammon", I really like James Interview. My God a luvvie (sorry James) talking absolute sense. I don't care If he's straight, gay or whatever just seems a decent sought of bloke !!

I LOVE James Dreyfus, & he talks common sense!!....something lacking in so many these days....

Why isn’t this actor in top films ,he has a presence that all brilliant actors have.I’m so sorry,you would think the pm would have done something by now but he’s part of it while his wife runs the show.

I love DW and I love James Dreyfus and think he’s a great man.

James is a lovely guy. Bless him.

Dreyfus’s is a prince among men. Lovely to hear from him.

I don't think I've ever seen or heard James in anything which I didn't enjoy, and I've always thought him a credit to his profession and a thoroughly decent human being

They prefer to participate in narcissistic nasty behaviour than a debate where they wouldn't last five minutes. Bravo Mr Dreyfus.

Didn't realise Big Finish did that, won't be bothering with them again, used to buy a lot from them, will save me some considerable bunce.

Respect! To speak the truth now is a rebellious act

James is a brilliant actor and an honest man. The T brigade will be after him now

I remember James Dreyfus from Gimme Gimme Gimee. It was 22 years ago. Here I am surprised how tall and bulky he is, and more mature and imposing. He seems like a great guy.

What a brilliant interview. James, as an interviewee, is amazing. The interviewer gave him free expression without much of an interruption. I never thought I'd watch a GBNEWS video. It looks like I'll be subscribing 😊

Can’t have people who say anything uncomfortable.

I ❤️ James. Everyone takes themselves too seriously these days. It’s crap, inoffensive and quite beige today.

James is very talented. I saw him in Cabaret and he was BRILLIANT. He is an individual who is highly skilled. Seeing more of him would be a very good thing

Rowan atkinson isn't typecast, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Johnny English, Maigret.

This guy should be bigger than he is

Love and respect to James Dreyfus. A top human being!

Less labels, not more! Exactly

julian Clary got his act from Mr Dreyfus. Fabulous comic timing