There a lot of people misreading this scene. The scene isn't anti-trans. It's anti-nonsense. Note that the characters are surprised to hear that their male friend wants to be a woman, but they only object to his idea that he should have the right to have babies. Also, anyone who argues against transgenderism is a moron.
"You wanna have babies?" "It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them" "But you can't have babies" "Don't oppress me" This has aged like wine
These days they are oppressing me, I’m not even allowed to say, “I AM A REAL WOMAN”, I’ve been degraded to cis woman. I’m not even a mother anymore; I’m a birth person. The butches have taken over... and I predict that in the distant future, man will go to jail for rejecting a woman (and I’m not talking about rejecting a cis woman) when all she wants is just being appreciated between thé sheets... so they are REALLY confirmed in their womanhood. God bless all women... hallelujah
@@jgdooley2003 not only women now days, you can be a cat, dog, 5 year old child, sofa, anything you want really. We should bring back the arena for this lot.
It's quite scary really. Even in the 90's this sort of thing was so laughable because of how utterly ridiculous it was. Obviously no sane human would ever say such things... and yet here we are, it's being systematically enforced by schools, governments, and corporations. You can literally be fired, or suspended, or arrested in some countries for not playing along with this Monty Python skit!
Funny, sad, disgusting, there's a friggin word salad I have heard as far as this. I will contribute further to the word salad, it's funny because it's true 🤷♂️.
Thank you Monty Pythons Comedy.. Yet Today’s success of Gender Identity Studies and Queer Theory Behavioral Conversion of Sexuality. Supported by some politicians, Dept of Education and Teachers Unions. Truly destructive for young adults and children in Public Schools
@Nick Anderson yeah, teaching kids to accept themselves for who they are. kids should be accepted for the gender they really are. and gender reassignment is, relative to the medical world, one of the best treatments. the vast vast majority of those who receive it show positive effects.
You think that, because you only know choice parts of Greek philosophy, which happen to be relevant. You don't know the big chunk, that's utter confusion and entirely irrelevant.
not ahead of its time, part of its time. this sort of conversation was happening during and before Monty Python, but was just starting to get public attention at the time. all they did was use the comedic device of "modern topic in exaggeratedly old setting" (a device they heavily overused in this film). the irony is that it may be genetic/innate, so the joke's on them i guess.
This was historically even a little bit late. Transgender and Transpecies were discussed in scientific fiction literature decades before 1979, which is when Life of Brian was released. But it definitely highlights the hypersensitive and divisive time we live in. We can all be hypersensitive, but man, you better learn your pronouns or else!!!
@@SharkVsTree then you are not informed of the research that has been done on the phenomenon. research, by the way, that would be much more advanced and extensive had the Nazis not burned all the old research that was done on transgenderism in Europe. i can only guess that those pricks wouldn't be interested in obliterating research done on some social affectation...
@@eisenkrahe7125 Yes. Let's agree that he has the right to refer to his personal experience watching it as 20 years ago, even though the film came out in 1979.
@@THAT.RANDOM.GUY_ its not a bad thing to have a term this brand of stupidity. There is a difference in stupidity and willful ignorance, SJWs are a mix of the 2 but lean far more towards willful ignorance. wouldnt do to keep them in the same category as flat Earthers since they are 100% willful ignorance or Ant-vaccers that are a pretty even mix of willful ignorance and stupidity
@@Mr_Friendly_B it aged fine because the sketch is not mean spirited, and even modern folks looking for something to be offended about could see that; the people in the film accept that their friend wants to be a woman pretty easily, the point they contend is that he wants to mother a child, which is just a real biological hurdle
@@theonetypingthis7186 They also realized that he's a nutjob. And the Monty Python never imagined at that time that sickness would come true. Please Russia, invade us !
I always took "radical" Christians as being radically "pacifist" (it also has a name in Christian tradition: quietism) if radical means following New Testament without exceptions.
Keep scrolling down, and when you're done there, just scrawl through youtube to find literally MILLIONS of them. But hey. Don't let me stop your point scoring. Knock yourself out.
Ironic how Stan is saying that he's oppressed because he can't have babies, meanwhile he's casually watching slaves being forced to fight gladiator battles :)
@@docribby Yeah but men cant have babies outside people who think roleplaying is real, thats the joke. You can be pro trans, but not on the expense where Womens rights movement or that is put out of jeopardy
@@matrix91234 you do realise in biblical times they had more than 2 genders in society, that's the actual joke that from a 1970s lens the idea that men can be women seemed bizarre. Yet society is going back due to the church having less influence in modern times.
@@absolutechad5428 I truly don't believe this was intentionally 'wise' in terms of predicting the future. It was just to them a very funny idea at the time. Given 'life of Brian' couldn't even be made in this day and age, and this joke came true, I think we can all settle on the fact that identity politics has partially destroyed Western culture
Well it is important to include women coz your language is making men as a default because men means sex and all the people lol. But sadly very often saying 'men and women' is just an empty virtue signaling.
"Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies" No, suppose you agree that *she* can't actually have babies My friend pointed this out, who is himself trans.
The genius of Life of Brian (and Monty Python in general) is how it takes a jab at philosophies from all spectrums : socialists, individualists, liberals, conservatives, nationalists, imperialists, capitalists, theists, anarchists, monarchists, or even nihilism itself.
I enjoyed the scenes involving Mr. Hilter & his attempts to gain power in the English town of Minehead. Tourist: "You wouldn't have much fun in Stalingrad." Hilter: "Not much fun in Stalingrad..."
That might be true, nonetheless it's still a testament to amazing comedy, this is from the late 70's, 43 years later still relevant. We could use more comedy of this caliber, but not even BBC itself does them justice in the the pursue of the elusive unicorn called "political correctness"...
It's so fucking up to date that it feels like the sketch was made just a couple of weeks ago. They predicted a whole website. Monty Python were amazing geniuses of comedy.
No, all satire is ironic, because it engages in mocking ironically certain views or people, but when it becomes reality, then its irony punching us in the face. Because we didnt listen, and we certainly didnt learn. So enjoy "men getting pregnant" now. Because Feelings > Facts. And reality is "racist", "sexist" and "transphobic". We despise reality and nature, because we've delved deep into delusion and absurdity.
@@morpheas768 Reality is what it is. However we define and create certain abstract ideals that would never exist without us. "Men" and "Womwn" are categories we created to describe the world and ourselves. They are not "reality," but our categorization of reality. So no, nobody is denying reality, or valuing feelings over facts.
1979 to be precise. The fact that modern society idolises the "Greed is good" 80's is ironic and a little sad in of itself. Having said all that, you're being a bit generous aren't you? smh When this film was released it was a bit on the progressive edgy side, now it's been so long even conservatives love it. The only thing the original is missing from the 2020's version is the iNtENsiTy...
I'm gonna go ahead and leave this here and direct you to page 112 of the report (Page 116 in the PDF) detailing suicide rates among the specific group you mentioned, seeing as HALF of them having suicidal thoughts is at the very least in MY MIND indicative of mental illness. www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF
@@Leon_der_Luftige I think they're talking about the bullshit where people say there's more than two genders, SJWs saying that you can be multiple genders at once, and trans people wanting to become a sex which they can't biologically, they can look and act female/male but they can't actually become that gender as that's not how they were born, also the fact that SJWs are trying to say that trans females, non-binary people and even regular biological males can beome pregnant and have periods if they wanted to, or at least have the right to have periods/pregnancy
Four decades ago this was absurdist comedy. Today a transcript of this scene could pass for a real dialogue at any university campus or public school board meeting. The tragic takeover of lunatics.
@@odeliamili7129 no they meant people who innately identified psychologically as the gender that opposes their biological sex and usually had the courage to own and express it while most people (such as yourself) stuck to popular ideas and bullied them... like pathetic cowards :P
+stickypool I know this sounds horridly hippie, but if we all just had a little more love and empathy for each other, then we wouldn't have to keep building these ridiculous little fences and jokes could be funny again.
What a difference a year makes. It turns out that in the UK a joke will get you convicted of hate speech. Also, the aussies have been better at cricket because they're cheats.
@@josieg.k.7320 It's only the "wanting to have babies" without a womb that makes Stan delusional. That's the joke, not the gender identity. Even in the 70s, they had transgender people. They harm no-one, and should have the freedom to dress any way they want, in a tolerant society.
Because they all went through Oxbridge, where they would have encountered first hand the windbag Marxists who espoused all this crap and who paved the way for the woke movement of today.
Did you know that trans people have been a thing since before but especially in ancient rome? Did you know that’s also when the movie takes place? It’s actually pretty interesting.
Where do you live? I doubt the law is forcing you to show us basic human decency. In fact, officers typically discriminate against us. Just like society in general. Sometimes I WISH we could be privileged for a change.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun (1) "where do you live?"... Son , have you heard of this place called S W E D E N ?? (2) "sometimes _I WISH we could be privileged for a_ change"... You mean like you are now ? You got all the rights anyone else has , there is a ton of media portraying you , and people treat you as gods on Twitter and cancels anyone who dares speak against trans rights . How tf are you opressed ? Do youy live in the middle East ? LOL
@@Dan_Kanerva You have no idea how southern states operate. They aren't far off from the Middle East. LGBT in liberal states are able to do ridiculous things, at the expense of someone in my situation. I just want to be left alone and at peace. But I'm at a higher risk of discrimination because of things I haven't done.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun ah , i see where you are comming from now... you are annoyed because a few loud lunatics from your community are creating a bad image in front of everybody else , and now people are gonna generalize and lump you in with those bastards... i can relate to that . Is what people do with conservatives or people who live in the south
@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr Way to win people over to your side. Call them a retard and say they're too dumb to learn. Works every time doesn't it? Bet you're the life of the party too
@@tonymichaels5592 I first read your comment and assumed he had nothing of value to say, then I read his comment and it turns out you ignored everything else he said. It works when the listener doesn't ignore almost everything, yes. It's when someone insults and says nothing else, that there is nothing of value.
+LittleLordFancyLad I'm a trans woman myself, and I love this. I used to *be* one of those SJW types. Well, no, I was never actually as bad as all that, but I signed on. Now, I'm still down with the principles and goals. I believe in social justice - I want what's fair for everyone. Everyone walks away from the table with a little less than they wanted - that's what justice *is*. But I've had it right up to the eyebrows with the asshole crybullies who want to take the notion of justice and pervert it into their own personal validation for aggressive acts of power and dominance. These give the whole notion of social justice a bad name, the same way the idiots who sling AR-15s over their shoulders to go to their suburban grocery stores give gun rights a bad name. And I've looked them in the eye in real life, on their own ground, and told them that to their faces, so they think I'm one with the enemy. They can just collectively kiss my trans ass. People who think the righteousness of their cause entitles them to abuse other human beings - Gamergate shitheads, social justice warriors, neo-Nazis, feminists, animal rights activists, anti-vaxxers, I don't give a tinker's damn what the cause is, or even whether I like the cause or not - are dangerous assholes, and the only difference between them and ISIS is one of scale and methods.
Marvellous. Reg's rationale and shock at everyone entertaining Stan's, sorry, Loretta's, impossible goal is pretty accurate for today. "I'm not oppressing you Stan YOU DON'T HAVE A WOMB"! 🤣
@1:14 I love how it's obvious that Eric Idle completely lost his shit at that joke and is laughing so he puts his head in his hands to make it look like he is crying 😂
I never knew that the actress who played Judith Iscariot became the Mayor of Aberystwyth in 2008, where "Life of Brian" was still banned nearly 30 years after it's release. She was instrumental in having the ban lifted!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I still love this scene. It really cracks me up. And makes my day. Glad they included it in the original movie. Plus Eric's laughing too. His shoulders are moving.😅😅😅😅
Watching this in 2023 and still can't believe how accurate this scene is in describing today's reality. It's like traveling from the present to the past then straight back to the present.
here's the thing thought SJW have always existed they didn't just pop out of the ground recently the mindset of the man-haters have existed during the times of martin luther king,first and second wave feminism, the only reason why we see it more now is because the internet just made things faster and now we just see more SJW now then ever
@@samuelhadjaissa5201 I'll give you credit for being slightly more coherent in this comment than some of your others. But how about some punctuation and capitalization to lend credibility to your point?
fleetcenturion Wait, but we already know that comedy = tragedy + time... So if tragedy = comedy + time then... Time is nothing. And comedy is tragedy. Oh well done Stan. You broke the world!
Wait, no, it’s comedy = tragedy + time. So, this equation should be tragedy = comedy - time.. You know what? I don’t even want to know how you math this out.
- I want to be a woman.
- why?
- It's my right as a man.
- a WOMAN?
No, no. A ROMAN.
@@NART211 WHEN I SAY THE NAME, BIGGUS DICKUS??
lmao oh fuck this video is going to kill me!
Its my right as a man to have babies.
You can't have babies...you've no womb.
Don't oppress me.😱 LOL
I was sincerely on board until that part
now the joke is on us we are living in a monty python sketch
The only difference is that this shit ain't funny. Monty Python sketches were.
You got that right brotha. Or... sista.
So true.😱
Stan is as confused as the cat.
There a lot of people misreading this scene. The scene isn't anti-trans. It's anti-nonsense. Note that the characters are surprised to hear that their male friend wants to be a woman, but they only object to his idea that he should have the right to have babies.
Also, anyone who argues against transgenderism is a moron.
"Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?" That line gets me every time lol
One day, that too will become a reality!😱🤣
I have a feeling that was improved because half of them broke character afterwards 😂
"I'm not oppressing you Stan! You haven't got a womb!" I crack up every time
I watched this in 1990. I never imagined it would come true in my lifetimes.
@@thefinestsake1660One day? We've been doing it for a while.
"You wanna have babies?"
"It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them"
"But you can't have babies"
"Don't oppress me"
This has aged like wine
Like fine wine.
I used to work with a guy who decided he wanted to be known as Victoria
These days they are oppressing me, I’m not even allowed to say, “I AM A REAL WOMAN”, I’ve been degraded to cis woman. I’m not even a mother anymore; I’m a birth person. The butches have taken over... and I predict that in the distant future, man will go to jail for rejecting a woman (and I’m not talking about rejecting a cis woman) when all she wants is just being appreciated between thé sheets... so they are REALLY confirmed in their womanhood. God bless all women... hallelujah
@@carladenhoed794 Say whatever the hell you want to
A very fine wine.
"symbolic of his struggle against reality"
Holy shit ! It's you !
There's nothing symbolic about it. Reg is otherwise 101% correct.
This quote pinpoints a lot of political issues today so well haha!
Spoken by a true philosopher
Is Gggmanlives, dare I say it, /ourguy/?
"Not having a womb, which is nobody's fault not even the Romans." love that bit.
Except today it's the white man's fault.
Yes. That "Not even the Romans," addition really took that joke to another level. LOL.
@@JELB1960 Damn, babycakes. You KNOW it!!!
@@slappy8941 Well, that's where it all falls apart, because a modern sjw would FIND a way to make it a cis-white-man's fault.
classic
In 1979, this was funny because of how unreal it was.
In 2023, this is funny because of how real it has become.
44 years ago. Unreal how the present time sees such issues becoming current topics of political conflict and discourse.
@@jgdooley2003 not only women now days, you can be a cat, dog, 5 year old child, sofa, anything you want really. We should bring back the arena for this lot.
@@24yrukdesigner pretty sure they aren’t saying that they’re sofas but that they’re sofa king
It's quite scary really. Even in the 90's this sort of thing was so laughable because of how utterly ridiculous it was. Obviously no sane human would ever say such things... and yet here we are, it's being systematically enforced by schools, governments, and corporations. You can literally be fired, or suspended, or arrested in some countries for not playing along with this Monty Python skit!
Funny, sad, disgusting, there's a friggin word salad I have heard as far as this. I will contribute further to the word salad, it's funny because it's true 🤷♂️.
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality" THAT LAST LINE IS PERFECT
Thank you Monty Pythons Comedy..
Yet
Today’s success of Gender Identity Studies and Queer Theory Behavioral Conversion of Sexuality. Supported by some politicians, Dept of Education and Teachers Unions.
Truly destructive for young adults and children in Public Schools
And now the lefties wont this sketch out the stage show, tell them john to do a long silly walk of a rather tiny pier
This video is symbolic of our struggle against reality!
... and Biology!
I love Monty Python!
As Kenny Bania would say Gold, Jerry. Gold!
Absolutely.
This is the most accurate unintentionally prediction ever made in history of cinema
Trans people have always existed ... and did in the 70s..
@@jmunday7811 There are no trans ppl in this scene, though
@@zotharr ok..? How does that make this any more of a ""prediction""
@Nick Anderson it's not being shoved down everyone's throat at all. and goddammit, it should not be a taboo.
@Nick Anderson yeah, teaching kids to accept themselves for who they are. kids should be accepted for the gender they really are. and gender reassignment is, relative to the medical world, one of the best treatments. the vast vast majority of those who receive it show positive effects.
Monty Python is like Greek philosophy, it will be relevant until the end of time.
+StreetSoldier88 Just so you know I am stealing your comment to repeat it anytime someone questions my love for Monty Python.
You think that, because you only know choice parts of Greek philosophy, which happen to be relevant. You don't know the big chunk, that's utter confusion and entirely irrelevant.
Taxtro: Kind of like Monty Python?
StreetSoldier88 Greek philosophers said the earth was flat and everything orbited it so monty python actually surpassed Greek philosophers
Greek philosophers werent necessarily Greek scientists, that doesnt invalidate the fact that plato and socrates are still highly relevant to this day.
I have never seen anything more based and ahead of its time than this.
Monty Python is absolute genius.
not ahead of its time, part of its time. this sort of conversation was happening during and before Monty Python, but was just starting to get public attention at the time. all they did was use the comedic device of "modern topic in exaggeratedly old setting" (a device they heavily overused in this film). the irony is that it may be genetic/innate, so the joke's on them i guess.
This was historically even a little bit late. Transgender and Transpecies were discussed in scientific fiction literature decades before 1979, which is when Life of Brian was released.
But it definitely highlights the hypersensitive and divisive time we live in.
We can all be hypersensitive, but man, you better learn your pronouns or else!!!
@@anderseckstrand7033 when chemicals stated to change male frogs into females... this is nothing less than chemical CASTRATION
@@abetrasken Irony? Hmm. I'm thinking it just might be entirely social and that's why it's funnier now. Plus ça change...
@@SharkVsTree then you are not informed of the research that has been done on the phenomenon. research, by the way, that would be much more advanced and extensive had the Nazis not burned all the old research that was done on transgenderism in Europe. i can only guess that those pricks wouldn't be interested in obliterating research done on some social affectation...
It's weird seeing this scene after 20 years and still finding it funny but for completly other reasons.
40 years .... 1979 it came out
@@eisenkrahe7125 Yes. Let's agree that he has the right to refer to his personal experience watching it as 20 years ago, even though the film came out in 1979.
@@eisenkrahe7125 Yes, but it identifies as a spineless trans lib. Let's laugh.
@@kepstein8888 It's symbolic of his struggle against the calendar.
@@johnmorley6844 Or her.
"I'm not oppressing you Stan, you haven't got a womb!"
I love how eric idle use the SJW Logic. Before we even coined the word SJW.
Because, either with using SJW or not, it's just stupid logic. It doesn't need to be labeled; it was stupid then and it's stupid now.
@@THAT.RANDOM.GUY_ its not a bad thing to have a term this brand of stupidity. There is a difference in stupidity and willful ignorance, SJWs are a mix of the 2 but lean far more towards willful ignorance. wouldnt do to keep them in the same category as flat Earthers since they are 100% willful ignorance or Ant-vaccers that are a pretty even mix of willful ignorance and stupidity
I so wanted to see Dennis the peasant from the Holy Grail come into the scene and say
"Help, help, Stan's being repressed"
Where's the fetus going to gestate? In a box!?
Monty Python trolling the present from the past.
Pretty sure there’s a DeLorean out of camera shot 😂
"It's symbolic against his struggle against reality." GENIUS.
This aged beautifully.
Well, from a moral standpoint you could argue that it aged awfully...
@@Mr_Friendly_B it aged fine because the sketch is not mean spirited, and even modern folks looking for something to be offended about could see that; the people in the film accept that their friend wants to be a woman pretty easily, the point they contend is that he wants to mother a child, which is just a real biological hurdle
@@theonetypingthis7186 They also realized that he's a nutjob. And the Monty Python never imagined at that time that sickness would come true. Please Russia, invade us !
It sure did.
Even better 1 year later....
"I'm not oppressing you Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus gonna gestate, you gonna keep it in a box?!" Favourite part 😂
To think, decades ago, this was just satire.
Now, this is actually reality.
That's one of the worst things about the left. They've destroyed satire, because you can't parody them. That's *actually* what they believe.
I always took "radical" Christians as being radically "pacifist" (it also has a name in Christian tradition: quietism) if radical means following New Testament without exceptions.
ANNNNNd here come the outraged conservatives. How tiresome. "Don't you oppress me leftie!"
Sou1defiler Where I don't see any.
Keep scrolling down, and when you're done there, just scrawl through youtube to find literally MILLIONS of them. But hey. Don't let me stop your point scoring. Knock yourself out.
0:50 "It's my right as a man." The most prophetic words of the whole scene, forty-two years later!
Life of Brian should be studied in schools as a perfect example of how bizarre human behavior is.
u mean liberals should be
@@BaseballPlayer0 Except the liberals will tell you that it’s normal
Should be shown to kids
During their " Antiwoke classes"😂
@@BaseballPlayer0Considering conservatives are defunding education as much as they are, there won't be anyone left to study them
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." This is amazing.
+Nathan Kees Too bad this would never fly nowadays. It's the voice that may not be heard.
What a line... I'm experiencing catharsis!
I keep trying to tell people there's no such thing as "Transgender" and "Transsexual" but no one will listen!
Perfectly sums up leftist ideology
I’ve been saying this for years now. It’s amazing how ridiculous the LGBT culture is.
Ironic how Stan is saying that he's oppressed because he can't have babies, meanwhile he's casually watching slaves being forced to fight gladiator battles :)
Ben Faulkner hmm something something snowflakes of today cheering on the "humanitarian" wars in the middle east
Very SJW of him.
And here's me thinking America invented Slavery. "African"-Americans do.
I think our History teachers might be a bit off base. Lol.
Clearly predicts the compartmentalization and the mental gymnastics leftists go through.
Kinda like how feminists are "oppressed" but they're fine with the treatment of women in Islamic countries.
"... Symbolic of his struggle against reality."
Nailed it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣The "Don't you oppress me!" got me so hard!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The "Don't you oppress me." just kills me. EVERY time.
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality"
Best line ever!
Old comment
Totally agree
You do realise the living members of the pythons are pro trans right
@@docribby Yeah but men cant have babies outside people who think roleplaying is real, thats the joke. You can be pro trans, but not on the expense where Womens rights movement or that is put out of jeopardy
@@matrix91234 you do realise in biblical times they had more than 2 genders in society, that's the actual joke that from a 1970s lens the idea that men can be women seemed bizarre. Yet society is going back due to the church having less influence in modern times.
I was a male trapped in a woman's body once...and then I was born.
😀😀😀
Classic!
Haha
Biology joke!
Good one!
I love it how the woman doesn't even care about the pronouns and it is the man who goes "or woman" every sentence. It is THAT accurate.
Exactly lol. 100% accurate
@@absolutechad5428 I truly don't believe this was intentionally 'wise' in terms of predicting the future. It was just to them a very funny idea at the time. Given 'life of Brian' couldn't even be made in this day and age, and this joke came true, I think we can all settle on the fact that identity politics has partially destroyed Western culture
Well it is important to include women coz your language is making men as a default because men means sex and all the people lol. But sadly very often saying 'men and women' is just an empty virtue signaling.
"Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies"
No, suppose you agree that *she* can't actually have babies
My friend pointed this out, who is himself trans.
@@marthalynx7941 As a woman, I couldn’t give a shit.
Can we all agree that Monty Python is the most intelligent humour ever made?
Absolute genius.
Its simultaneously the most idiotic and the most intelligent 😂
@@giftofthewild6665 well thats like shakespeare said the fool played the part for money while all the rest of the world does it for free
The Babylon Bee is a close 2nd.
Cause it's really rare to use your very high IQ exclusively to make people laugh.
The genius of Life of Brian (and Monty Python in general) is how it takes a jab at philosophies from all spectrums : socialists, individualists, liberals, conservatives, nationalists, imperialists, capitalists, theists, anarchists, monarchists, or even nihilism itself.
Exactly. That's why it's so brilliant. Everyone gets a little dig.
All Windmills are in season for them.
I enjoyed the scenes involving Mr. Hilter & his attempts to gain power in the English town of Minehead. Tourist: "You wouldn't have much fun in Stalingrad." Hilter: "Not much fun in Stalingrad..."
We laughed. We laughed but we didn't listen.
We...we didn't listen!!
Because no one thought people could be that stupid!
A bit like The Two Ronnies - The Worm That Turned.
If we didn't listen how did we laugh?
It was so funny at the time but I'm not laughing now. It's so scary that it came true.
In 1979, this was edgy comedy.
In 2022, it’s more of a comment really.
That might be true, nonetheless it's still a testament to amazing comedy, this is from the late 70's, 43 years later still relevant. We could use more comedy of this caliber, but not even BBC itself does them justice in the the pursue of the elusive unicorn called "political correctness"...
Ain’t that the truth.
I’d argue that it’s even more edgy now.
"I'm not oppressing you Stan, you haven't got a womb!" Don't say that in Glasgow John Cleese, you'll get 7 years.
FOR REAL LOL
It's so fucking up to date that it feels like the sketch was made just a couple of weeks ago. They predicted a whole website.
Monty Python were amazing geniuses of comedy.
JoroJojoro Yet the liberals have become the "Romans" they once hated.
JoroJojoro yep, well before its time
so fucking true
+2727taterbug Liberalism didn't exist until the 17th century you fucking idiot.
Also, why are you lumping all liberals with SJWs?
Rusty Shackleford because they're the exact same thing you idiot.
'It's symbolic of his struggle against reality' Fucking genius. All satire becomes irony eventually.
That last line got me so good
No, all satire is ironic, because it engages in mocking ironically certain views or people, but when it becomes reality, then its irony punching us in the face.
Because we didnt listen, and we certainly didnt learn.
So enjoy "men getting pregnant" now. Because Feelings > Facts.
And reality is "racist", "sexist" and "transphobic".
We despise reality and nature, because we've delved deep into delusion and absurdity.
@@morpheas768 Reality is what it is. However we define and create certain abstract ideals that would never exist without us. "Men" and "Womwn" are categories we created to describe the world and ourselves. They are not "reality," but our categorization of reality. So no, nobody is denying reality, or valuing feelings over facts.
@cageybird average irony understander
@@moira4987 1 billion years of evolutionary history disagrees with you. Men and women are not human categories, they're objective
Wow. 80s satire is 2020s reality.
1979 to be precise. The fact that modern society idolises the "Greed is good" 80's is ironic and a little sad in of itself.
Having said all that, you're being a bit generous aren't you?
smh
When this film was released it was a bit on the progressive edgy side, now it's been so long even conservatives love it.
The only thing the original is missing from the 2020's version is the iNtENsiTy...
@@PeterKnagge bc they don’t get it 😂
Ahead of their time! Particularly the ‘don’t oppress me’ bit! 😂
Transgender people existed way before then, dog day afternoon with al pacino was 1975
Trans people existed back then too… Trans people have always existed. Read a book
Am I watching a documentary from 2021 or a satirical performance from 1979? I can’t really tell.
It is a lot like Matt Walsh's What is a Women?
This aged like fine wine lmao
The wine goes by 'Whisky' now you alchyphobe
This wine would be sold for $1,000,000 a bottle.
John Cleese absolutely steals this scene with his reactions
I know what you mean, but Palin's ending his line, "... brother, ... sister, sorry" is the most hilarious of all in the scene for me :D
It looks like Eric Idle's actually cracking up a bit at the end of the scene, and can't hold a straight face.
@@okyouknowwhatever Can’t blame him
Those reactions are transphobic hate speech and thievery shall not be tolerated.
@@JulesBartowget a grip
It was a joke then, now it is reality....
This dialogue is utter perfection. Zero fat on it. Almost eerie how bodeful the were. Pure genius.
Way ahead of its time.
I'm gonna go ahead and leave this here and direct you to page 112 of the report (Page 116 in the PDF) detailing suicide rates among the specific group you mentioned, seeing as HALF of them having suicidal thoughts is at the very least in MY MIND indicative of mental illness.
www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF
@Al Strider Enjoy your filter bubble.
2000 years
@@Leon_der_Luftige I think they're talking about the bullshit where people say there's more than two genders, SJWs saying that you can be multiple genders at once, and trans people wanting to become a sex which they can't biologically, they can look and act female/male but they can't actually become that gender as that's not how they were born, also the fact that SJWs are trying to say that trans females, non-binary people and even regular biological males can beome pregnant and have periods if they wanted to, or at least have the right to have periods/pregnancy
Elegant Elliot Offen from the Howard Stern Show comes to mind.
0:57 "Where's the fetus going to gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?!?"
good one
yes, actually.
@@sidDkid87 hahahah I love you
@@josieg.k.7320 *love* is a strong word 😍😉
The way Cleese's voice goes up an octave or two when does his exasperated-with-it-all... smeggin' gold!
Four decades ago this was absurdist comedy. Today a transcript of this scene could pass for a real dialogue at any university campus or public school board meeting. The tragic takeover of lunatics.
Not really. There were transexuals back then.
Oh dear Cary. You seem to have been left behind 😂
Yup the left is bonkers.
@@lol-de4lo
You mean pathetic cowards below 25 who can't be natural female-looking adult males?
@@odeliamili7129 no they meant people who innately identified psychologically as the gender that opposes their biological sex and usually had the courage to own and express it while most people (such as yourself) stuck to popular ideas and bullied them... like pathetic cowards :P
I never noticed how close Eric came to cracking when Michael said the "brother, i mean sister, sorry" bit.
he wasnt cracking. he was in character getting happy of hearing a solution to his problem
Yep you wouldnt get away with this sketch today.
+TheJoffah Have you seen South Park?
+Bingding Memedream Buckle up, buckaroo.
+stickypool I know this sounds horridly hippie, but if we all just had a little more love and empathy for each other, then we wouldn't have to keep building these ridiculous little fences and jokes could be funny again.
That's horribly hippie, alright. And it makes no freaking sense.
What a difference a year makes. It turns out that in the UK a joke will get you convicted of hate speech. Also, the aussies have been better at cricket because they're cheats.
"It's symbolic of his struggle against reality."
You don’t get it 😂
@@sampal5352 what?
Fuck, we are a monty python sketch.
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
Trans people existed back when this was made. Trans people have always existed
@@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 This is revisionism.
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality" 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂Yes 👏👏👏👏
“It is symbolic of his struggle against reality”
"It's symbolic of his struggle against reality."
This scene is uncomfortably predictive of what we see in today's society.
Oh, so you are uncomfortable with it? Well that sure triggers me. I think I might just have to turn you in.
@brus li into a titmouse. Dont you get it? Sheesh.
@richieboy09 Transgender people have been around for thousands of years my friend
Nice to see your uncomfortable, that's just society becoming more accepting.
@@josieg.k.7320 It's only the "wanting to have babies" without a womb that makes Stan delusional. That's the joke, not the gender identity. Even in the 70s, they had transgender people. They harm no-one, and should have the freedom to dress any way they want, in a tolerant society.
How did Monty Python know that this perfectly describes today's craziness. November 2021.
Because they all went through Oxbridge, where they would have encountered first hand the windbag Marxists who espoused all this crap and who paved the way for the woke movement of today.
You know a comedy is timeless when it starts predicting the future 😅😅
Did you know that trans people have been a thing since before but especially in ancient rome? Did you know that’s also when the movie takes place? It’s actually pretty interesting.
I was mainly talking about the arguments
This scene pops in my head so often these days. Can't imagine why. XD
Everyone today needs to see this. This is hilarious and 100% accurate spot on!
This has aged well for too many reasons.
Ah yes, back when this was recognized as absurdity for comedic effect rather than official government policy.
Where do you live? I doubt the law is forcing you to show us basic human decency. In fact, officers typically discriminate against us. Just like society in general. Sometimes I WISH we could be privileged for a change.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun That’s just not true
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun (1) "where do you live?"... Son , have you heard of this place called S W E D E N ?? (2) "sometimes _I WISH we could be privileged for a_ change"... You mean like you are now ? You got all the rights anyone else has , there is a ton of media portraying you , and people treat you as gods on Twitter and cancels anyone who dares speak against trans rights . How tf are you opressed ?
Do youy live in the middle East ? LOL
@@Dan_Kanerva You have no idea how southern states operate. They aren't far off from the Middle East. LGBT in liberal states are able to do ridiculous things, at the expense of someone in my situation. I just want to be left alone and at peace. But I'm at a higher risk of discrimination because of things I haven't done.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun ah , i see where you are comming from now... you are annoyed because a few loud lunatics from your community are creating a bad image in front of everybody else , and now people are gonna generalize and lump you in with those bastards... i can relate to that . Is what people do with conservatives or people who live in the south
What was a joke 40 years ago has now become reality.
More like predictive programming.
ua-cam.com/video/EIoLBlJF_Pw/v-deo.html
It's still a joke 😉
@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr Way to win people over to your side. Call them a retard and say they're too dumb to learn. Works every time doesn't it? Bet you're the life of the party too
@@tonymichaels5592 I first read your comment and assumed he had nothing of value to say, then I read his comment and it turns out you ignored everything else he said.
It works when the listener doesn't ignore almost everything, yes.
It's when someone insults and says nothing else, that there is nothing of value.
Holy shit, get fucked Tumblr.
*****
That's something that should told to tumblrites on a daily basis by the rest of humanity.
The jackbooted SJW Gestapo on Twitter too.
+LittleLordFancyLad I'm a trans woman myself, and I love this.
I used to *be* one of those SJW types. Well, no, I was never actually as bad as all that, but I signed on. Now, I'm still down with the principles and goals. I believe in social justice - I want what's fair for everyone. Everyone walks away from the table with a little less than they wanted - that's what justice *is*.
But I've had it right up to the eyebrows with the asshole crybullies who want to take the notion of justice and pervert it into their own personal validation for aggressive acts of power and dominance. These give the whole notion of social justice a bad name, the same way the idiots who sling AR-15s over their shoulders to go to their suburban grocery stores give gun rights a bad name.
And I've looked them in the eye in real life, on their own ground, and told them that to their faces, so they think I'm one with the enemy. They can just collectively kiss my trans ass. People who think the righteousness of their cause entitles them to abuse other human beings - Gamergate shitheads, social justice warriors, neo-Nazis, feminists, animal rights activists, anti-vaxxers, I don't give a tinker's damn what the cause is, or even whether I like the cause or not - are dangerous assholes, and the only difference between them and ISIS is one of scale and methods.
+Arkadia Moon
What is needed in this world- and what is so badly missing at the moment- is a general sense of proportion.
Kibate very good point lol
Kibate another good point kudos
Marvellous. Reg's rationale and shock at everyone entertaining Stan's, sorry, Loretta's, impossible goal is pretty accurate for today. "I'm not oppressing you Stan YOU DON'T HAVE A WOMB"! 🤣
That fetus in a box line made me laugh out loud in the library. I’m in trouble now.
@1:14 I love how it's obvious that Eric Idle completely lost his shit at that joke and is laughing so he puts his head in his hands to make it look like he is crying 😂
This was meant to be comedy, not a script for present society.
I want to have babies.
@@TonyEnglandUK go ahead! good luck!!
@@cristinap.morais6878 Thank you. My foetus is doing nicely in its box.
Well, 1984 was meant to be a warning, not a guidebook. Yet here we are.
@@GlenBradley Beat me to it.
They always get it right and they make fun of everyone and everything equally. It’s a true talent!
They wouldn't be able to say that now...
They can re-release Life of Brian as a documentary now
It's only a matter of time until all Python sketches turn to reality... can't wait for Ex-Parrots
My cat does require a pet license now. There was a Monty Pythom sketch about a cat license. It was not serious!
so many problems in the world, but we spend our time fighting for "symbolic" and invented "problems". this sketch will not grow old.
Monty Python roasting the entire West decades before we even knew it.
Loretta is BiDumb's pick for Dept of Health.🤡
it wasn't unreal though, dog day afternoon with al pacino was 1975
😂😂😂 This is just what I needed, imagine someone saying that this is going to be the reality 43 years from now 😂😂
This needs to go back to being a joke
It has never stopped being a joke to anyone with even the slightest grip on objective reality.
@@TS-ev1bl thats true
Last line NAILED it-
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality"
And soon after this, 'Loretta' went on to become a living legend in all of the Women's Amphitheatre Combat competitions of the day.
Some of the most brilliant comedians of all time
god... remember when this was absurd parody and not fucking headlines?
Whenever I watch life of Brian, I ALWAYS laugh so hard at "symbolic of his struggle against reality"
The least funny part- Cleese is playing the controlling, rigid, ignorant part of society of here
@@sampal5352 you're playing the part of the annoying, duplicitous, virtue-signaling twat.
@@sampal5352 Nope, in comedy terms, his role is a straight man in this scene. He is the one who is here to contrast with the absurd characters.
Symbolic of his struggle against reality
I never knew that the actress who played Judith Iscariot became the Mayor of Aberystwyth in 2008, where "Life of Brian" was still banned nearly 30 years after it's release. She was instrumental in having the ban lifted!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That last line...this whole scene is perfect, but “Symbolic of his struggle against reality” just couldn’t be more right nowadays.
So ahead of their time. It's exactly what's being said: 'It's my right as a man'
I still love this scene.
It really cracks me up.
And makes my day.
Glad they included it in the original movie.
Plus Eric's laughing too.
His shoulders are moving.😅😅😅😅
Aaaand now they want to censor this scene from the film.
“It’s symbolic of his struggle against reality.”
I love how litterally everything they said came 100% true
“You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box!?”
🤣🤣🤣
This was downright prophetic 😂
I remember crying with laughter at this sketch as a kid.. Little did I know this was my future FFS 🤦🤦
Who would’ve thought that Monty Python would be too conservative for 2019?
Common sense isn't a conservative or liberal thing. It just is.
Well, John Cleese got in trouble with the PC police recently. So...
Might I just add that I'm completely anti-conservative and I love monty python? It's clever.
Shows how far left our culture has shifted
*@P.S. Burton*
That's more-or-less what I said. But, I'm still wracking my brain trying to come up with an example of Leftist common sense.
What you watched here gentlemen, is just pure perfection and british comedy.
Watching this in 2023 and still can't believe how accurate this scene is in describing today's reality. It's like traveling from the present to the past then straight back to the present.
I know. Who would have thought in 1979 that this would be reality now
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality" 😂😂😂
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." Love it.
"Symbolic of his struggle against reality..." SPLITTERS!!!
4 decades ahead of its time - Extraordinary.
Only then everyone knew it was a joke...
“Which is nobody’s fault, not even the romans” 😂
They didn't get that part right as the same people who push this stuff now believe everything is the fault of White People.
@@zakofrx Specifically, CIS white MEN.
@@zakofrx Some of them try to reason with their friends, but sooner or later they have to give in or find new friends.
Internet SJWs in a nutshell. Can't believe this came out 35+ years ago.
Batman8657 SJW is farce in a nutshell.
What about Feminism?
mang, say Hello to my lil friend !
here's the thing thought SJW have always existed they didn't just pop out of the ground recently the mindset of the man-haters have existed during the times of martin luther king,first and second wave feminism, the only reason why we see it more now is because the internet just made things faster and now we just see more SJW now then ever
@@samuelhadjaissa5201 I'll give you credit for being slightly more coherent in this comment than some of your others. But how about some punctuation and capitalization to lend credibility to your point?
This could have easily been a Babylon bee skit!
Life of Brian is such a masterpiece, every damn scene is hilarious. Much better than THG in my opinion
Tragedy = comedy + time!
fleetcenturion
Wait, but we already know that comedy = tragedy + time...
So if tragedy = comedy + time then...
Time is nothing.
And comedy is tragedy.
Oh well done Stan. You broke the world!
Wait, no, it’s comedy = tragedy + time. So, this equation should be tragedy = comedy - time..
You know what? I don’t even want to know how you math this out.
Time = Comedy - Tradgedy
Seagulls = tragedy + comedy - time = ice cream
@@glittersguts - No, it's Tragedy - comedy. Aaand comedy = Tragedy - time. ;)
"I'm not oppressing you Stan, you haven't got a womb. Where's the foetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?" 😂
the box broke.
It's 2021 and this has officially come to pass.
Unlike troons
The Simpson's weren't the first to predict the future.