John Cleese and the Life of Brian

 

 

 Life of Brian

Cancel culture set its sights set on comedy. Unfortunately, it had a major negative impact on movies and comedic performances. But Monty Python’s John Cleese refused to bow to the woke/trans populations and remove this one joke from a classic movie.

Offensive in today’s environment?

The hilarious scene features a man claiming that he is a woman and that he can have a baby.

Cleese was currently working on a stage production of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a 1979 movie about a man who is mistaken for Jesus Christ.

However, actors in the stage version had allegedly told Cleese one scene would need to be cut out of the reproduction because it was offensive in today’s environment.

The scene in question features a character named “Stan”, who wants to become a woman and have babies.

“I want to be a woman,” Stan declares. “From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta.”

Cleese’s character Reg looks at him and bewilderingly asks, “What?”

“It’s my right as a man,” Stan fires back at Reg.

“It’s every man’s right to have babies”

The scene goes on and gets even funnier and more prophetic.

When asked why he wants to be a woman, Stan said because “I want to have babies.”

“You want to have babies?” Reg replies.

“It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them,” Stan yells.

When Reg informs Stan that he “can’t have babies,” Stan plays the victim card and tells him “don’t you oppress me.”

“I’m not oppressing you, Stan, you haven’t got a womb,” Reg replied. “Where’s the fetus going to gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?”

Other characters in the scene agree that Stan can’t have babies but do believe he should have the “right to have babies.”

“What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?” Reg responded.

Another character answered that “it is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.”

Reg then said Stan has a “struggle with reality” for thinking he can give birth to a baby.

Monty Python is “transphobic”

Of course, critics claim the scene in the movie from 44 years ago is “transphobic.”

However, conservatives argue that it’s prophetic.

But despite the controversy, Cleese had confirmed he would not be removing the scene from the upcoming stage show of Life of Brian.

“A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London,” Cleese wrote on Twitter. “I told them I was adapting the Life of Brian so that we could do it as a stage show ( NOT a musical ). I said that we’d had a table reading of the latest draft in NYC a year ago and that all the actors – several of them Tony winners – had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene. I have, of course, no intention of doing so.”

Cleese went on to say about the actors in the upcoming production that “these were absolutely top-class Broadway performers and they were adamant that we would not get away with doing the scene in NYC! I asked them, ‘Are Python fans not going to come because we’re doing a scene they’ve been laughing at for 40 years?'”

Cleese is exactly right.

Variety.com 

 This is a copy/cut/paste gem. We saw Life of Brian at 45 years ago, still laugh at it and the Monty Python geniuses.