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https://web.archive.org/web/20230520083027/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/19/john-cleese-life-of-brian-stage-show-joke-man-having-baby/

Movie scene:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jlo7YZW8vPA

1 posted on 05/20/2023 12:06:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

I love that Mr. Cleese isn’t politically correct, even though he is a flaming lefty!


2 posted on 05/20/2023 12:08:53 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lowbridge

“What is one supposed to make of that?”

Classic British understatement.


3 posted on 05/20/2023 12:09:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: lowbridge

I was wondering when the tranny mob would go after that one!


4 posted on 05/20/2023 12:09:59 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: lowbridge

Anybody that’s going to offend, needs offending. Reality and all that you know.


5 posted on 05/20/2023 12:11:01 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: lowbridge

The clip is hilarious.


6 posted on 05/20/2023 12:11:19 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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7 posted on 05/20/2023 12:12:30 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: lowbridge

F them.


10 posted on 05/20/2023 12:27:01 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lowbridge

I watched CARRY ON GIRLS(1973) last night. Great skit about a man dressing as a woman, trying to get in on a Girls Beauty contest as a publicity stunt.

Watching Margaret Nolan is also a treat!


11 posted on 05/20/2023 12:29:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: lowbridge
'You can't do that stuff nowadays'

men still cannot have babies....

14 posted on 05/20/2023 12:37:07 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: lowbridge
Sad cultural Marxists cannot take a joke;
Their missing funny bones are completely broke.
Watch their vapid agony on which they ever choke,
Being so dysphoric, these sleepers think they're woke.
18 posted on 05/20/2023 12:51:50 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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21 posted on 05/20/2023 12:55:01 PM PDT by DFG
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To: lowbridge
Is he suppose to climb in his time machine?

Frankly I am not inclined to care because he was one of the guys who led us to this point.

"Oh," he would say, "aren't all these walls silly? Let's tear them down, they spoil the view and I am sure they do not really serve any purpose. Oh, look at the cuddly puppies, aren't they cute. Let's invite them in!"

Twenty years later.

"Why is this wolf pack chasing me through the streets? Come rescue me!"

How about no.

24 posted on 05/20/2023 1:13:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: lowbridge

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuZ24VBrbO4&pp=ygUnbW9udHkgcHl0aG9uIGNvbW11bmlzbWJpY3ljbGUgcmVwYWlybWFu


30 posted on 05/20/2023 2:11:04 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: lowbridge

Don’t do it, John. Stand firm.


31 posted on 05/20/2023 3:00:42 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: lowbridge
Cleese is making some weird unforced errors.

He is also rebooting Fawlty Towers to give his daughter a job. Well, ok, why does Rob Freaking Reiner have to produce? Why go to Castle Rock? Who convinced you they don't suck (they do).

Cleese is in exactly the same "Life of Brian" trap in this reboot, by stupidly moving the hotel to the Caribbean, he's the invader, so it will be hour-after-hour of him 'taking the piss', as the British call it -- and that will wear thin fast -- instead of him being able to ladle out occasionally clever insults to the minority help at home inside Fawlty on the English Riveria.

Now he's got actors -- ACTORS -- telling him to re-write his script (which was Idle/Gilliam at concept, but according to the books the daily re-writes flew fast and furious from all Pythons after George Harrison wrote the $3M check to save the film at the onset of production).

Instead of doing what you're doing, Cleese, why not add some CGI to Life of Brian and maybe have "Loretta" be Mr. Dylan. "I want you all to call me Loretta ... and etch my mutant face on a jug of wine!"

Think of all the fun he could have in the Matthias stoning scene lofl. "Who threw that stone? She did she did! He did he did!"

33 posted on 05/20/2023 3:16:00 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: lowbridge

Absolutely one of the best scenes in the movie, and amazingly decades ahead of its time, at least as regards this issue. Not surprised at the pushback - the devil will not be mocked.


35 posted on 05/20/2023 4:59:33 PM PDT by Stosh
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Keep joke about man having a baby it tells it like it is the wimp actors warning show just how much of a puss they are.

Loretta indeed LOL

Keep it in a box

2 best lines


39 posted on 05/21/2023 10:17:47 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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