Very funny and well observed drama about the fuss over Python's life of Brian.
Was shown on Wednesday and then followed by the orginal "Friday night, Saturday morning" debate with muggeridge and the bishop of Southwark.
Bit like the Damned Utd in that it's a good drama but the real participants less than impressed.
Well worth watching on BBC iplayer if you like Python as lots of references to their sketches
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Agree Sir Henry, very much enjoyed it. Whilst we were in Jersualem a week or so ago, we visited the church of the holy sepulchre. Outside, propped up against the walls, was a pile of huge wooden crosses. I thought this was an attempt at one of those 'installation' thingies, but in fact it was genuinely a 'rent a cross' outlet. It seemed like religion imitating Monty Python and i thought it highly blasphemous ;-)
Cheers for the link Stig
SA, I'm biting my lip resisting the urge to launch into a python sketch : - )
It's a shame that the actor playing John Cleese decided to play him as Basil Fawlty.
Remember that episode of Friday Night/Sat Morn and really enjoyed watching it again, well seen first 25 mins or so. Tim Rice was a good host wasn't he?????
Saw the film at the Granada Welling in '79 and got bothered by a load of bible bashers on the way out! It remains the funniest film I have ever seen.
Agree about Tim Rice. Why he's not now hosting a major chat show I'll never know!
Will have to watch LOB with my son and see if you finds it funny.
The edition of the show with the interview in question.
Spot on indeed he was. In fact given that we seen most of the actors in many other things I was really surprised how much they got them to look like their characters.
I really enjoyed the programme and just shows that we can still make great tele.....even if the masses prefer "The Next Katie Price Dances on Ice" or whatever that s###e is called.
Great programme and indeed mad as a box of frogs
think i enjoyed the chat show afterwards better
interesting that Malcom Muggeridge was editor of punch for 4 years (i never knew that) and that he saw himself as an arbiter of humour/comedy, i particularly liked his words about how this film wouldnt stand the test of time ...how wrong he was !i also particularly liked how polite and deferrential JC and MP were to Muggeridge and the Bishop
One of the funniest films ever made and it doesnt date and never will
I went to see Life of Brian at Bexleyheath cinema - early 1981' if I remember correctly
I always remember as it was my first ever "date" with a girlfriend. - she lived in Sidcup somewhere & remember getting the bus back to her place and walking a long way from the station bus stop to her house - couldn't remember the way back & got the last train back to Bexley !!
Watched Life of Brian with my daughter (15) recently hoping that she would get it, thankfully she did and has now bought the box set of all Python films.
Absolutely love it, takes me back to when I was her age.