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Is LIFE OF BRIAN Being censored? · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, folks, I have some good news for you. It turns out
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  the world hasn't gone completely completely mad quite yet. Now. John Cleese is
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  apparently putting on a stage production of Life of Brian, the Monty Python classic,
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  and there have been rumors going around that he was being forced to cut
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  an offensive an offensive scene from Life of Brian, the famous Loretta scene.
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  Why are you always on about women's stan I want to be one what.
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  I want to be a woman from now on. I want you all to
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  call me Loretta what. It's my right as a man. Oh, why
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  do you want to be Lorettaster? I want to have babies? You want
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  to have babies. It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
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  But you can't have babies. Don't you oppress me. I'm not oppressing
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  you, stand you. I'm gonna room. Where's the feenis? Just take
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  You're gonna keep it in a box. I've got an idea. Suppose you
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  agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is
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  nobody's fault, not even the Romans, but that he can have the right
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  to have babies. Good idea, Judith, we shall find the oppressors for
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  your right to have babies. Brother sister. Sorry, what's the point,
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  Well, what's the point of find in trees right to have babies when he
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  can't have babies? It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression, symbolic of
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  his struggle against reality. So that was from nineteen seventy nine, back when
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  it was okay to make fun of the obviously ridiculous. And it's actually amazing
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  how prescient that scene is, isn't it, Especially that line at the end
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  there. It's symbolic of our struggle against oppression, because that's how it's all
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  framed. Now. Everybody's oppressed except for one very specific demographic and you know
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  who that is. Hint, it looks exactly like Alan Thick. But in
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  any case, there've been a rumor that John Cleese was being forced to cut
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  that from the Life of Brian's stage play because of modern times, because of
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  current year. And it turns out that's not true. Thank god, that's
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  not true, because if that had been true, I mean, at that
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  point, I almost I am willing to just give up, all right,
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  just go live in a cave somewhere with the collected works of the Marquis de
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  Sade, because humanity just wouldn't be worth it anymore. But thank goodness,
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  I don't have to do that because it's not true. Monty Python's life or
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  Brian will not be censored, despite rumors that's coming from John Cleese himself.
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  And you're talking about this rumor, he tweeted, and that all the actors,
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  several of them Tony Winners, had advised me strongly to cut the lorette
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  a scene. So he'd been advised by the actors to cut the scene because
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  of of course current year, he writes, I have, of course,
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  no intention of doing so. But he continues, so someone in the audience
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  had called a journalist and misreported me. Amazingly, none of the British media
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  called to check. I actually don't think it's amazing that the British media didn't
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  call to check. I think it would have been amazing if they had.
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  They're either trying to just push a narrative or get clicks, so not shocking.
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  Here's another tweet from John c Lease on this subject. He said that
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  was what was so surprising. These were absolutely top class Broadway performers, and
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  they were adamant that we would not get away with doing the scene in New
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  York City. I asked them, are Python fans not going to come because
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  we're doing a scene they've been laughing at for forty years? Yes, and
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  this is a thing. The people that would be offended are a small fringe
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  minority. They're certainly not the mass of Monty Python fans. I mean,
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  for the modern leftist, for the modern far left authoritarian, cutting one scene
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  from a Monty Python movie, Yeah, that's not going to do it.
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  Ah good after seven? How are we today? Made a good bucket throw
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  up? I guess, don't bucket promise you? And he also tweeted this,
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  producers tend to be scaredy cats and they don't remember that the protests in
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  New York City when Brian was released meant we never needed to do publicity.
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  That's right, because the outrage was the publicity. That's back in nineteen seventy
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  nine. And so if there is any controversy about this, it's only going
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  to help the production because because the people that complain, we're never going to
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  go see it in the first place, and a bunch of people who might
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  actually see it will hear about it that maybe wouldn't have otherwise, and quite
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  frankly, if you're going to piss these people off, I feel like you've
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  kind of got a moral duty to piss these people off as well, and
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  you can't tell me it wouldn't feel good. And I kind of feel like
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  in the movie they might have covered some of the absurdity of the radical ideologues.
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  Possible, who knows, but it would have been truly shocking had Clice
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  cut that scene, because he has been actually fairly vocal about wokeness. In
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  twenty twenty two, he said, I think it's particularly worrying at the moment
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  because you can only create an atmosphere of freedom when you're not checking everything you
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  say critically before you move on. That's why the left isn't funny anymore.
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  Anything slightly edgy is way too much of a risk, and they try to
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  pretend to be edgy by making grow just gross jokes or trying to, you
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  know, push the abortion joke as far as it can go. It's all
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  stuff that's actually become quite boring and tired, and it's and that's because it's
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  totally safe in their world. It's totally safe, it's totally predictable and it's
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  totally boring, but in any case, I think the Western world should think
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  John Clice for not being a coward and not giving in, and perhaps more
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  young comedians should follow his example. Anyway, please subscribe, link and share
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  really helps me out. Thank you for that. I will see you next
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  time. Three