John Cleese has pulled out a talk he was going to give at Cambridge University after the Student Union's president banned another speaker who impersonated Hitler.

Keir Bradwell announced that Andrew Graham-Dixon, an art historian, had been banned from speaking at the society after a debate about good taste last week in which he caricatured Hitler.

According to The Independent he said in a separate letter published on Facebook that Graham-Dixon offended members when he made “deplorable remarks” and “thoughtless and grotesque language”.

Graham-Dixon responded saying that it wasn't his intention to upset the audience, but to briefly paraphrase Hitler's "crass and insensitive statements about art and race”.

In response to this Cleese tweeted out that he would no longer be giving a talk.

He wrote: "I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler.

"I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."

In a follow-up to that he posted: "I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply."

Cleese, 82, has impersonated the Nazi leader in both Fawlty Towers and in a sketch in Monty Python’s Flying Circus.