The funniest thing about this scene is that the extras playing the soldiers were not told anything about this scene only that they were not allowed to laugh and had to maintain a stern face. So their reactions and laughing is completely organic and Palin is completely chewing up the scene trying to get them to laugh.
That's not true. Palin's film diary describes having to do multiple takes of this scene with the extras and needing to keep coming up with new names for Pilate's wife to try to keep the energy and humor up at the end.
Most of those people are well known actors in the UK, although they may not have known the script, I suspect they did. Palin said many of the scenes were filmed multiple times.
You can even see the one guard mouth, “oh, no” to himself when Michael Palin said that. The reason is that Palin would change the wife’s name every take, so they could never prepare themselves for the next joke.
We had a dog called biggus dickus. It was a short legged jack russell. Everytime its 💄 came out it dragged on floor. So when on concrete surface he used to do kind of hilarious 3 legged hop walk to avoid scrapes and scratches on his crown jewels. Hence he got the name biggus dickus
Biggus Dickus wanting to help out is the best: "I may be of fome faffiftanfe if fere if a fuffen cfifif" His face and eyes when he says that kills me 😂
I first saw Life of Brian when it was released in Perth, Western Australia. The US Navy (7th Fleet?) was visiting at the time so the cinema was almost a third full of young sailors and Marines just about the time that Monty Python was being appreciated in the USA. The whole place was roaring with laughter, especially as the Monty Python shorts 'The Christmas Card' and 'Away From It All' were shown beforehand. By the end I'd laughed so much my ribs hurt and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. A happy memory.
I'd seen the first part of this sketch so many times, but forgot how funny the next part was. LOL Absolute classic. Real comedy writing (and acting) at its finest.
I'm sure it's nauseating to hear, but: You guys are ADORABLE! I've seen this sketch a hundred times, and seen half a dozen reactions to it, but I LOL most at y'all's --your enjoyment was infectious!
When The guard was being dragged off to Gladiator school, that was Brian's cue to escape. He missed his cue, so Michael Palin (Pontius Pilate) ad libbed everything else 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good thing they kept the ad libbing in
When I saw this scene at the cinema (as a teenager when it was released), I fell out of my seat laughing. The way it builds the tension is hilarious. I still chuckle when I see it.
The story goes that none of the extras in this scene knew what the dialogue was, so their reactions are genuine responses to hearing Biggus Dickus for the first time.
The support actors (guards) were told one thing about their role .... "Don't laugh". That was it. Can you imagine not having a script and told not to laugh then facing that?
As many others have said, the extras playing the guards were told not to laugh at anything, though the reason why doesn't seem like many people know. In order to get the reactions out of the guards that they wanted, they told them they only had the budget for one take and so they absolutely couldn't afford to screw it up and that it's a very important scene to the film. So the guards holding in the laugh is actually them trying their best not to ruin the take.
I gotta tell you, I love watching your videos. I love it when you laugh at our comedy and you get on well together. Please keep it going and thanks. And yes we use bloke quite commonly here and the opposite is Missus.
I saw it at the cinema, the audience was laughing so much I didn’t hear Incontinentia Buttocks. I’m so glad I saw this at a cinema, their other films I saw on dvd and not as good experience. This is the funniest film ever made.
Another fun fact. The second soldier to laugh and then pulls faces trying not to laugh was the real life husband of Judith. When the movie was released, the local council of the town where she and husband lived banned the movie from being shown, considering it disgusting. Years later ‘Judith’ was elected the Mayor of the town and gave a free showing of the movie in the cinema to say thank you 😊
Hey there crazy cats😂just woke up here in the UK at 0700 to you two doing this, I'm now definitely wide awake😂 I haven't woken up with a Biggus Dickus for ages, it used to stop me falling out of bed when I was a bit younger like a handbrake, now it's more like a leaky bicycle inner tube and gets me out of bed rather than keeping me in it😂😂you two are quite simply a brilliant duo, this was great thank you. Take care now 👍✌️🍻
8:04 This is a bit of a hidden joke when he says "Rome is your friend!" because historically, if the Romans ever offered you _Amicitia_ or "Friendship", it was a polite way of saying "You're going to do everything we say or you'll go from Friend to Enemy very quickly." The joke being that Roman Friendship was indistinguishable from Roman Enmity, with the only real difference being it's ironic name.
6:04 To those who are curious, in Latin *Incontinent* means *Unrestrained*. Something that cannot be controlled. *Incontinentia* is just made up cuz the actor wanted to make sure the cast on set were unaware of what he would do next. Keeping them all holding back their laughter.
If you want to trace the origins of the Monty Python Show. There was the 1948 Show. However prior to that was The Goon Show with crazy characters played by Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellars and Michael Bentine. The craziest of these was no doubt Spike Milligan, his shows and books are hilarious!
Despite the other obviously hilarious stuff in this scene, I've always gotten a kick out of John Cleese's character's replies when he clearly didn't understand what Michael Palin's character was saying. Spiwit, bwavado, a touch of dewwing dew... Ah, about 11 sir. XD
Urban Legend: The actors of the guards was told that they wouldn't get paid if they would laugh in the biggus dickus scene. they fought hard but lost the challenge.
When micheal palin goes up to that one roman guard and says his friends name, if you watch carefully you can see him almost wanting to laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤❤
I understand many of the guards were extras and hadn't been briefed about what to expect. They'd just been told to keep straight faces, or they wouldn't get paid.
It has been said, that the actors playing the guards were not told beforehand what was going to be said. However, they were told that they had to keep a straight face, if they wanted to get paid. Life of Brian was financed by George Harrison (Beatle).
Hi. You two seem to be the only people on the other side of the pond that have even noticed the inability to pronounce the letter R or the lisp. I do wonder why. Loving your reactions more than ever. I hope you enjoy making them as I do watching them!
The Life of Brian was excellent. George Harrison financed it when they ran out of money. A great use of wealth. Lucy was pretty good at inventing new lyrics for "Horse with no name". 👏 _"I've been to the pi$$er but my wang has no name. It felt good to get off of the train, In the pi$$er you can't remember its name, 'cos there aint no one for to help you take aim..."_ seems to fit. Best Wishes. ☮ G-Man-😎
Or, closer to Joe's poem: "I went to the pi$$er with a wang with no name. It felt good to get off of the train, In the pi$$er Joe can give it a name, but there aint no one for to help me take aim..." seems to fit, and is from the perspective of the commuter or train driver. 😱 Best Wishes. ☮ G-Man-😎
@@bradlucy here are several alternative final lines (with explanations): "... but there ain't no _cake_ for to help me take aim..." (urinal _cake_ Could be _'cos_ instead) "... 'cos there ain't no _butt_ for to help me take aim..." (cigaret butt. Here _'cos_ is better) "... 'cos there ain't no _fag_ for to help me take aim..." (in UK fag = cigaret, but US _fag_ is funnier) They might inspire you Best Wishes. ☮ G-Man-😎
There's a cameo shot of George Harrison in the movie as well. And George wanted to see the movie so much, that's what persuaded him to finance it. It's all explained in the DVD commentaries.
Fun fact, Jesus’ birthday wasn’t on the 25th according to the bible and is estimated to be some time in late spring. The church just appropriated some existing pagan holiday and convinced people the holiday was actually about Jesus.
The speech impediments of very rich Romans was real and also happened to the upper classes of England in 18th 19th and early 20th century. The reason was the same in both cases: piped water; that came through lead pipes, to the homes of wealthy people. This then caused their children in particular, to develop a range of developmental problems; including to the speech centres of the brain. That is why the Toff with a speech impediment became a standing joke in British Music Hall. It is hypothesized to be one of the causes of the fall of the Roman empire and was something the Monty Python team, learned in the history classes of the University where they first met.
Get the DVD that has the commentaries with it, and listen to John Cleese and Michael Palin--ESPECIALLY Palin--explaining the whole speech impediment idea.
The funniest thing about this scene is that the extras playing the soldiers were not told anything about this scene only that they were not allowed to laugh and had to maintain a stern face. So their reactions and laughing is completely organic and Palin is completely chewing up the scene trying to get them to laugh.
the try not to laugh part always makes it harder so when you are force not to laugh then most people fail at not laughting.
Thanks for not adding the bullshit reddit rumor that they'd be fired.
That's not true. Palin's film diary describes having to do multiple takes of this scene with the extras and needing to keep coming up with new names for Pilate's wife to try to keep the energy and humor up at the end.
That's why the guy in the close up has a totally not organic willful silly face like he's trying to make faces at a baby
Most of those people are well known actors in the UK, although they may not have known the script, I suspect they did. Palin said many of the scenes were filmed multiple times.
Palin's face as he's standing behind the two guards knowing what he has to say next ("he has a wife, you know"), that gleeful face is so great :D
I would call it "mischievious" :D
You can even see the one guard mouth, “oh, no” to himself when Michael Palin said that. The reason is that Palin would change the wife’s name every take, so they could never prepare themselves for the next joke.
The funniest line in the whole scene
The best part!
"He has a wife..." and you can see the left guards face "oh god please no..." XD
"This man commands a quack legion! He wanks as high as any in Wome!" is my favourite part, although all the clips are hilarious.
I think mine was, "So. . . .you Father was a woman?". Nice double entendre.
@@sharkdentures3247 Hi hi, certainly.
One of mine too along with the grafitti Latin lesson.
@@antonytye3484 🙂
He WANKS...
roflmao
We had a dog called biggus dickus. It was a short legged jack russell. Everytime its 💄 came out it dragged on floor. So when on concrete surface he used to do kind of hilarious 3 legged hop walk to avoid scrapes and scratches on his crown jewels. Hence he got the name biggus dickus
😲🤣🍻
with a named like biggus I'd BET he was short.
This might just be the most funny comment I read on UA-cam.
@@Escherichia2003 wow you been on UA-cam 15 years. I'm glad it made you smile 😉
Lickus Dickus is my favorite dog name.
Biggus Dickus wanting to help out is the best: "I may be of fome faffiftanfe if fere if a fuffen cfifif"
His face and eyes when he says that kills me 😂
And to think Michael palin is now one of the most famous and respected travel journalists now. His travel documentaries are a must watch.
I first saw Life of Brian when it was released in Perth, Western Australia. The US Navy (7th Fleet?) was visiting at the time so the cinema was almost a third full of young sailors and Marines just about the time that Monty Python was being appreciated in the USA. The whole place was roaring with laughter, especially as the Monty Python shorts 'The Christmas Card' and 'Away From It All' were shown beforehand. By the end I'd laughed so much my ribs hurt and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. A happy memory.
I'd seen the first part of this sketch so many times, but forgot how funny the next part was. LOL
Absolute classic.
Real comedy writing (and acting) at its finest.
That stare before he says "he has a wife you know" is legit funnier than the actual words he is saying 😅 5:42
I'm sure it's nauseating to hear, but: You guys are ADORABLE! I've seen this sketch a hundred times, and seen half a dozen reactions to it, but I LOL most at y'all's --your enjoyment was infectious!
Thank you so much 😀
Yes they are having a great life together.
Such a SIMPLE joke, and it becomes one of the greatest comedy scenes ever.
Blow your noses and seize him! What a line. Palin's comedic timing in this scene is impeccable.
I love that guy’s shirt! “You can’t fix stupid! Not even with duct tape!” Sad, but true!
When The guard was being dragged off to Gladiator school, that was Brian's cue to escape. He missed his cue, so Michael Palin (Pontius Pilate) ad libbed everything else 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good thing they kept the ad libbing in
Does anyone else feel like a little……. Giggle? I’ve had enough of this wowdy webel behaviah!
👩🦰-lol
When I saw this scene at the cinema (as a teenager when it was released), I fell out of my seat laughing. The way it builds the tension is hilarious. I still chuckle when I see it.
The Life of Brian is my favorite movie to watch for the Christmas season.
The legend is the extras playing the guards were told they would not be paid if they laughed during the scene.
Un respetuoso saludo desde Argentina y feliz 2024-
The story goes that none of the extras in this scene knew what the dialogue was, so their reactions are genuine responses to hearing Biggus Dickus for the first time.
5:14 That scene and the way Michael Palin stares at the soldier just gets me every time XDDDD
The support actors (guards) were told one thing about their role .... "Don't laugh". That was it. Can you imagine not having a script and told not to laugh then facing that?
As many others have said, the extras playing the guards were told not to laugh at anything, though the reason why doesn't seem like many people know. In order to get the reactions out of the guards that they wanted, they told them they only had the budget for one take and so they absolutely couldn't afford to screw it up and that it's a very important scene to the film. So the guards holding in the laugh is actually them trying their best not to ruin the take.
Love it - great to see someone who not only got it, but found it funny 🤣🤣👍😳 all the others I've seen, it went right over their heads.
I gotta tell you, I love watching your videos. I love it when you laugh at our comedy and you get on well together. Please keep it going and thanks. And yes we use bloke quite commonly here and the opposite is Missus.
Apparently the guys who played the Roman soldiers didn't know the script that's why they were in hysterics
Such a classic. Oh my God...get a room. ❤️😂
I saw it at the cinema, the audience was laughing so much I didn’t hear Incontinentia Buttocks. I’m so glad I saw this at a cinema, their other films I saw on dvd and not as good experience. This is the funniest film ever made.
The we is no weason for wissibility at my wife's name, I'll have you know l wank highly in wome
It doesn't matter how many time I see it, it's always funny as the first time
Another fun fact. The second soldier to laugh and then pulls faces trying not to laugh was the real life husband of Judith. When the movie was released, the local council of the town where she and husband lived banned the movie from being shown, considering it disgusting. Years later ‘Judith’ was elected the Mayor of the town and gave a free showing of the movie in the cinema to say thank you 😊
I've watched it so many times and it cracks me up every time.
Hey there crazy cats😂just woke up here in the UK at 0700 to you two doing this, I'm now definitely wide awake😂 I haven't woken up with a Biggus Dickus for ages, it used to stop me falling out of bed when I was a bit younger like a handbrake, now it's more like a leaky bicycle inner tube and gets me out of bed rather than keeping me in it😂😂you two are quite simply a brilliant duo, this was great thank you. Take care now 👍✌️🍻
Biggus Dickus was funny.
What got the soldiers laughing so hard was saying the wife was Incontinentia Buttocks lol.
There actually is a surviving poem from Rome mocking someone for putting an H in front of "Adriatic"
Wonderful was a awesome chuckle😂
Biggus Dickus that name alone makes me laugh, seeing otters laugh at it, makes me laugh even more 🤣
I didn't know otters watched you tube
Michael Palin is probably my favourite human ever.
The funniest thing is the emperor's facial expressions.
it's great how u guys show affection to each other. seen it multiple times
This channel will end up making me change my username, wholesome channel
It´s absolutely legendary and genial scene...!!! I saw it more than twenty times,but alwasy laugh like crazy...!!
Most of the Laughing you heard after he said incontinentia buttocks was actually the production crew behind the scenes laughing!
8:04
This is a bit of a hidden joke when he says "Rome is your friend!" because historically, if the Romans ever offered you _Amicitia_ or "Friendship", it was a polite way of saying "You're going to do everything we say or you'll go from Friend to Enemy very quickly." The joke being that Roman Friendship was indistinguishable from Roman Enmity, with the only real difference being it's ironic name.
what a wholesome channel
The wonderful Michael Palin at his brilliant best. But he still wished he was a lumberjack 😂
Wumberjack you mean ?
@@johncunningham4820 Palin really was great.
This was funnier because the actors were not told the script, only that under no circumstances were they to laugh.
6:04
To those who are curious, in Latin *Incontinent* means *Unrestrained*. Something that cannot be controlled. *Incontinentia* is just made up cuz the actor wanted to make sure the cast on set were unaware of what he would do next. Keeping them all holding back their laughter.
If you want to trace the origins of the Monty Python Show. There was the 1948 Show. However prior to that was The Goon Show with crazy characters played by Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellars and Michael Bentine.
The craziest of these was no doubt Spike Milligan, his shows and books are hilarious!
Spike has a cameo in the film as the follower left behind talking to himself.
Despite the other obviously hilarious stuff in this scene, I've always gotten a kick out of John Cleese's character's replies when he clearly didn't understand what Michael Palin's character was saying.
Spiwit, bwavado, a touch of dewwing dew...
Ah, about 11 sir.
XD
Thats not nasty,, thats awesome,good to see ppl still love each other that way,keep up the awesome content.
Lovely, thank you for bringing back the memories.
Urban Legend: The actors of the guards was told that they wouldn't get paid if they would laugh in the biggus dickus scene. they fought hard but lost the challenge.
When micheal palin goes up to that one roman guard and says his friends name, if you watch carefully you can see him almost wanting to laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤❤
The life of Brian and The holy grail are both brilliant 👍😀
The Meaning of Life is also great, just not quite as good as the ones you mentioned.
"So your father was a woman!?" Brilliant!
I am pretty sure the actors were laughing for real.
Absolutely awesome thanks 🙏
I understand many of the guards were extras and hadn't been briefed about what to expect. They'd just been told to keep straight faces, or they wouldn't get paid.
My favourite sketch of all time, sheer comic genius!!
"Theveral theditiouth thcribeth from Thaetherea..."
Was John Cleese laughing behind Graham Chapman (Biggus Dickus actor) at 10:22?
Should watch "Always look on the bright side of life" it's a song from the same movie
It has been said, that the actors playing the guards were not told beforehand what was going to be said. However, they were told that they had to keep a straight face, if they wanted to get paid. Life of Brian was financed by George Harrison (Beatle).
And there's a shot of George in the movie as well. I didn't know that until it was pointed out by the Python guys in the DVD commentaries.
British comedy writers were the best.
Michael Palin is so talented. I wonder how many takes this took.
One of my favs
5:49 The guy on the left: "Oh God, please... No more..."
"....uuuh, ...a bit thundery, Sir".
comedy mugging at it's vewy best
Brad and Lucy, I knew you would break.
Soon people are going to react to your reactions. You two are hilarious.
Ive got an alternate of that shirt "You cant fix stupid with duct tape, but you can muffle the sound"
I think that one of the outbursts was a cameraman.
"Do we have anyone of that name in the garrison"... "what, after 30 odd years... highly unlikely sir", should have been the answer!
I cant imagine how many takes they needed to film without laughing🤣🤣🤣
Cleese and Palin explain it all in their commentaries in the DVD.
@@dogbarbill need to watch that 😁😊
well the guards were told not to laugh, otherwise the weren't paid.
Uuumm, don't wing us chaps, we'll wing you! 😆
Just classic python- brilliant.
Holy crap I never thought about the opening song... it's both in _Life of Brian_ and _Monty Python & the Holy Grail_
Love that stare at 5:45
A lot of the crowd shouting Welease Woger, Welease Woderwick, Welease Bwian, were the crowd shouting (Welease Bawabbas) in Jesus of Nazareth 1977
Brian, sir! Brian Eh? No, Brian.
His descendant,Thickus Biggus,became Prime Minister of Britain
What I also find amusing is that Graham Chapman played both Brian and Biggus Dickus in this.
Hey, you just created a new hit at the end!
Hi. You two seem to be the only people on the other side of the pond that have even noticed the inability to pronounce the letter R or the lisp. I do wonder why.
Loving your reactions more than ever. I hope you enjoy making them as I do watching them!
The laughter you hear at some point is from people behind the cameras
The Life of Brian was excellent. George Harrison financed it when they ran out of money. A great use of wealth.
Lucy was pretty good at inventing new lyrics for "Horse with no name". 👏
_"I've been to the pi$$er but my wang has no name. It felt good to get off of the train, In the pi$$er you can't remember its name, 'cos there aint no one for to help you take aim..."_ seems to fit.
Best Wishes. ☮
G-Man-😎
Or, closer to Joe's poem:
"I went to the pi$$er with a wang with no name. It felt good to get off of the train, In the pi$$er Joe can give it a name, but there aint no one for to help me take aim..." seems to fit, and is from the perspective of the commuter or train driver. 😱
Best Wishes. ☮
G-Man-😎
🤣🤣🤣
@@bradlucy here are several alternative final lines (with explanations):
"... but there ain't no _cake_ for to help me take aim..." (urinal _cake_ Could be _'cos_ instead)
"... 'cos there ain't no _butt_ for to help me take aim..." (cigaret butt. Here _'cos_ is better)
"... 'cos there ain't no _fag_ for to help me take aim..." (in UK fag = cigaret, but US _fag_ is funnier)
They might inspire you
Best Wishes. ☮
G-Man-😎
There's a cameo shot of George Harrison in the movie as well. And George wanted to see the movie so much, that's what persuaded him to finance it. It's all explained in the DVD commentaries.
Always look at the bright side of life.
The both of you are funny as hell eh, greetings from germany eh to canada eh.😉
Thought the Beans scene in Blazing saddles Was Funny, This Scene Is Magic
Monty Python is so funny.
It's Brians birthday next month....the 25th
But you don't have to worry too much about the Myrrh next time!
Fun fact, Jesus’ birthday wasn’t on the 25th according to the bible and is estimated to be some time in late spring. The church just appropriated some existing pagan holiday and convinced people the holiday was actually about Jesus.
@@chlli Jesus real birthday was on 31sr April
Always soo funny.😋
It's just so well written.
"Life of Brian" is a great combination of silliness and wicked social satire.
You were laughing through the best bit "He wanks as high as any in Wome!"
99% of comments = "The actors dodn't know"
Oh uhh about 11 sir
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The speech impediments of very rich Romans was real and also happened to the upper classes of England in 18th 19th and early 20th century. The reason was the same in both cases: piped water; that came through lead pipes, to the homes of wealthy people. This then caused their children in particular, to develop a range of developmental problems; including to the speech centres of the brain. That is why the Toff with a speech impediment became a standing joke in British Music Hall. It is hypothesized to be one of the causes of the fall of the Roman empire and was something the Monty Python team, learned in the history classes of the University where they first met.
Get the DVD that has the commentaries with it, and listen to John Cleese and Michael Palin--ESPECIALLY Palin--explaining the whole speech impediment idea.