‘The life of Brian’ by Monty Python is not touched: John Cleese assures that he will not eliminate a controversial scene in his theatrical version to avoid offending the new generations

The Monty Python have been enduring absurd controversies for 45 years about their masterpiece of humor ‘The Life of Brian’ and the trend, far from diminishing, seems to be increasing. A few days ago it was rumored that john cleesemember of the comedy group and official of the Ministry of Foolish Walksplanned to eliminate a scene from the next theatrical version (not a musical) of the mythical film due to “new sensibilities”, but the actor has flatly denied it.

Cleese claims that he was “misinformed” that he planned to cut the scene for his stage adaptation of the religious satire film. On the contrary, she said that “has no intention” to remove it.

The scene in question features a male character (Eric Idle) declaring that he wants to be a woman named “Loretta” because he wants to have babies.. Cleese’s character tells the man that the idea is ridiculous, while another suggests that they all stand up for their right to have children.

“- I want to give birth. It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them..

– But you can’t give birth Stan, you don’t have a uterus! Where will the fetus gestate? Do you plan to have it in a box?

– Don’t oppress me!”

The discussion continues until a member of the Judean Popular Front (Popular Judaic Front: Dissidents!) concludes that their rights must also be defended:

“- OK, we will defend your right to have babieseven if you can’t have them, as a symbol of our fight against oppression.

– Rather as a symbol of his fight against reality…”

John Cleese insists he never said he would remove the politically incorrect scene from the stage adaptation of ‘Life of Brian’, despite the fact that the 1979 film doesn’t elicit the same laughs as it once did in certain quarters today due to the raising awareness of transgender issues.

It was reported that Cleese asked the American actors at a script reading if Loretta’s scene should be cut. Supposedly, they told him that the joke no longer fit in these times.

“So here’s something to there’s never been a complaint in 40 years, and now all of a sudden we can’t do it because it will offend people. What is one supposed to do with it?”

Cleese said in a tweet that his comments only reflected what he was advised to do, not that he was ultimately going to remove the scene.

“A few days ago I spoke to a London audience. I told them I was adapting ‘Life of Brian’ so that we could do it as a stage show (NOT a musical). I said that we had a table read of the latest draft in New York a year ago and that all the actors, several of them Tony winners, I had been strongly advised to cut the Loretta scene. Of course, I have no intention of doing so.“