--- title: Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift’s Cat to Her Face description: No cat fight here canonical: https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-12T18:29:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:45.111Z og:title: Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift’s Cat to Her Face og:description: No cat fight here og:url: https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf38166810f183b9/6987603d428a9e1407cc47b5/taylor-swift-john-cleese-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift John Cleese Cat og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift’s Cat to Her Face twitter:description: No cat fight here twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf38166810f183b9/6987603d428a9e1407cc47b5/taylor-swift-john-cleese-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift's Cat to Her Face  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 12, 2014 6:29 PM CUT  YouTube  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 12, 2014 6:29 PM CUT You have to be pretty bold to take on Olivia Benson. No, not _that_ Olivia Benson — Taylor Swift’s cat, who happens to be named after the _Law & Order: SVU_ character. The singer showed off her feline friend (one of two she owns) on _The Graham Norton Show_, where guest John Cleese made his feelings on the animal’s appearance known to all. “How did it have the accident?” Cleese asked a [more-surprised-than-usual Swift](http://www.buzzfeed.com/aj8/44-photos-of-taylor-swifts-surprised-face-cfe3 "undefined"). “Is that a proper cat? Is it damaged irrevocably? It’s the weirdest cat I’ve ever seen in my life.” No cat fight here, though. Taking her own advice, [Swift shook off her hater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h%5FJM "undefined") and kept quiet while the Monty Python alum and comedy legend went on to show off his own giant cat. _Read next:_ [_Taylor Swift Finally Explains Why She’s a Feminist and How Lena Dunham Helped_](http://time.com/3165825/taylor-swift-feminist-lena-dunham/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/"},"headline":"Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift's Cat to Her Face","datePublished":"2014-10-12T18:29:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:45.111Z","description":"No cat fight here","url":"https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf38166810f183b9/6987603d428a9e1407cc47b5/taylor-swift-john-cleese-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf38166810f183b9/6987603d428a9e1407cc47b5/taylor-swift-john-cleese-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor Swift John Cleese Cat","caption":"Taylor Swift John Cleese Cat","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3500268/taylor-swift-cat-john-cleese-olivia-benson/","name":"Watch John Cleese Insult Taylor Swift's Cat to Her Face"}}]}] ```