Cleese and cringe

CBC News actually showed this odd little "before the interview started" exchange between Peter Mansbridge and John Cleese.  I wonder if they asked Mansbridge first. Mansbridge seems to say some silly Canadian government "in an independent streak" took away his chance to be Sir Peter, so he had to settle for the Order of Canada. Cleese then sensibly says he, personally, woudn't tolerate being a Commander of Empire or such nonsense.