No laughing matter: they want to censor ‘Life of Brian’, but he intervenes to defend the original John Cleese
The politically correct kills the comedian, both because he himself is a comedian and because he kills any irony, which after all is nothing but the exercise of collective intelligence and tolerance. But those who are politically correct, those who want "Pride Days" for everything, cannot be ironic.
The last case takes aim at a film which is a bit of an icon of the English comedy of “Monty Python”: “Life of Brian”; a film that makes an irreverent but hilarious satire on the life of a certain Brian, who lived at the time of Jesus and was confused with the Messiah. Some parts of this film have become "Cult" of comedy, imitated even in Italy. You have certainly seen two parts and we propose them again:
"Marcus Pisellonio"
Here is the equally famous "Latin lesson"
Now you want to rewrite Brian of Nazareth as a play, but you can make fun of Christians, you can make fun of the Romans (who are no longer there, in the ancient version, so they don't get angry), you can even satirize on Jews, but political correctness prevents satire on trans.
Because in the film there is the famous scene of "Loretta"
Here a man, Stan, wants to be considered a woman and have a child. The result is a very amusing speech which, if we replaced the word "Romans" with the word "fascists", could very well have been pronounced by a PD executive. Genilays Monty Python predicted 30 years ago what is happening now with all Gender theory. If this is not genius….
Now John Cleese wants to adapt the work for the theatre, but he is asked to censor this part because it offends an untouchable category, that of the Trans.
But John Cleese is not there
A recent example of this misreporting!
A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London.
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…(tbc) https://t.co/VPWJGdUZtJ— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 25, 2023
..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
So someone in the audience had called a journalist and misreported me. Amazingly none of the British media called to check
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 25, 2023
Similarly, there are reports that ” Bright Side ” is going to be cut
Untrue, for a very good reason
We don't want to upset Eric and it's his only contribution to the Life of Brian script
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 25, 2023
Here is the translation of the words of John Cleese, who was one of Monty Python and who was just dealing with the theatrical version of "The Life of Brian"
A recent example of this misinformation!
A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London.
I told them I was adapting Life of Brian into a stage play (NOT a musical). I said
that a year ago we had a desk reading of the latest draft in New York…
…and that all the actors, many of them Tony winners, strongly advised me to cut Loretta's scene.
Of course, I'm not going to do that.
Then someone in the audience had called a reporter and misreported me. Surprisingly, none of the British media called to check.
Similarly, it is said that "Bright Side" will be cut.
That's not true, for a very good reason.
We don't want to upset Eric and it's his only contribution to the Life of Brian script.
So it takes an old comedian to fight censorship. Today there is no one who would dare to remake such a film. do you see a Fiorello trying this kind of satire? To be a comedian you need "Balls", and these aren't even in football…
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