In �Monty Python and the Holy Grail,� a filthy peasant who is being throttled
by King Arthur at the time, yells: �Come and see the violence inherent in the
system. Help! Help! I�m being repressed!�

So it is with another of the British comedy troupe�s movies, �Monty Python�s
Life of Brian.�

Comedian John Cleese revealed last week that a scene for his revival of the
irreverent stage show, during which �Stan� declares he wants to be a woman
named �Loretta� and have babies, is set to be cut from the play � for woke
reasons.

�According to Cleese, the �Loretta� scene, in which a male member of the
People�s Front of Judea demands his right to have babies, raised eyebrows at
a read-through in New York last year,� Spiked reported on Wednesday. ��We
love the script, but you can�t do that stuff about Loretta nowadays,� the
Americans told Cleese.�

The scene is a brilliant bit of surreal comedy in which Stan declares �it�s
every man�s right to have babies if he wants them.�

In the scene, Stan and three others do a rat-a-tat-tat exchange that made
Monty Python famous. For the record, Cleese plays Reg, Michael Palin is
Francis, Sue Jones-Davies plays Judith, and Eric Idle plays Stan. Just enjoy
the timing:

: Judith: I do feel, Reg, that any anti-imperialist group like ours must
: reflect such a divergence of interests within its power base.
: : Reg: Agree. Francis?
: : Francis: Yeah, I think Judith�s point of view is very valid, Reg. Provided
: the movement never forgets that it is the unalienable right of every man �
: : Stan: Or woman.
: : Francis: Or woman to rid himself �
: : Stan: Or herself.
: : Francis: Or herself.
: : Reg: Agreed.
: : Francis: Thank you, brother.
: : Stan: Or sister.
: : Francis: Or sister. Where was I?
: : Reg: I think you finished.
: : Francis: Oh, all right.
: : Reg: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man �
: : Stan: Or woman.
: : Reg: Why don�t you shut up about women, Stan, you�re putting us off.
: : Stan: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
: : Francis: Why you always on about women, Stan?
: : Stan: I want to be one.
: : Reg: What?
: : Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta.
: : Reg: What?
: : Stan: It�s my right as a man.
: : Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
: : Stan: I want to have babies.
: : Reg: You want to have babies?!
: : Stan: It�s every man�s right to have babies if he wants them.
: : Reg: But you can�t have babies!
: : Stan: Don�t you oppress me.
: : Reg: I�m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven�t got a womb. Where�s the
: fetus going to gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?
: : Judith: Here, I�ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can�t actually
: have babies not having a womb, which is nobody�s fault, not even the
: Romans, but that he can have the right to have babies.
: : Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to
: have babies, brother � sister. Sorry.
: : Reg: What�s the point? What�s the point of fighting his right to have
: babies when he can�t have babies?
: : Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
: : Reg: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

When �Life of Brian� � listed in the IMDB�s top 250 movies � came out in
1979, it faced an onslaught from the Catholic Church. But that might be a
simple foe when weighed against the LGBTQ+ community.

Cleese has grumbled before about the plight of the modern comedian. When
asked in July of 2022 if they still have the unfettered freedom to be funny,
he said, �No. I think it�s particularly worrying at the moment because you
can only create in an atmosphere of freedom where you�re not checking
everything you say critically before you move on.�

�A lot of comedians now are sitting there and when they think of something,
they say something like, �Can I get away with it? I don�t think so. So and so
got into trouble, and he said that, oh, she said that.� You see what I mean?
And that�s the death of creativity,� Cleese said.

This new onslaught will be tantamount to the Spanish Inquisition. And as the
boys of Monty Python have always said: �Nobody expects the Spanish
Inquisition!�

https://youtu.be/jlo7YZW8vPA

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