He gave no indication of an exact date as to when he will be returning to the show.
"John Cleese is turning into the kind of old person that they absolutely would've made fun of in a sketch for Flying Circus," one person wrote on Twitter.
"Wow. The mental gymnastics involved in trying to make liberalism sound the Taliban. I’ve got a headache," wrote one confused Twitter user.
"The extraordinary thing about this is an MP - an actual member of parliament - has spotted the name "James O'Brien" somewhere and instantly linked it to that James O'Brien, with *no* attempted corroboration whatsoever. "I mean, FFS", wrote one exasperated Twitter user.
"I don't know who this lady is, but I think I might love her,' wrote one Twitter user.
"Yeah Darren, it has nothing to do with Trump releasing the current Taliban leader and 5,000 Taliban militants," wrote one Twitter user.
The average number of people tuning in has dropped by more than 20,000 per day since its debut in June.
The BBC has labelled the reported expulsion of their correspondent from Moscow as “a direct assault on media freedom”.
'How much would it cost to run a full page advert in The Express that just has a montage of all their old inaccurate stories?', wrote one Twitter user.
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