Posted on 05/20/2023 12:06:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
Actors warned John Cleese that his Life of Brian stage show should not include a scene about a man wanting to be a woman and have a baby, the comedian has said.
The Monty Python star is working on a stage production of the troupe’s 1979 comedy film, The Life of Brian, which parodies the Messianic message of the New Testament.
In the film version, a character named Stan explains that he wants to be a woman called Loretta and “have babies”, before being told by Cleese’s character Reg that this was impossible.
This exchange reportedly met with opposition from actors in a readthrough of the script for the planned stage show because it could “offend people”, raising doubt as to its inclusion in the final production.
'You can't do that stuff nowadays'
Cleese said performers involved in the readthrough told him: “We love the script, but you can't do that stuff about Loretta nowadays.”
Speaking to the audience for his one-man show, he added: "So here you have something there's never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I've heard of, and now all of a sudden we can't do it because it'll offend people. What is one supposed to make of that?
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Cleese revealed the concerns with the script amid a growing debate about gender ideology, which purports that people born female who identify as male are men, and could give birth to children as men.
This idea has been reflected in the NHS, with the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust recently employing the phrase “birthing people” instead of mothers in an announcement about perinatal mental health care.
In 2021, Brighton and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust unveiled “gender inclusive” phrases to be used as best practice by medical staff
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Movie scene:
I love that Mr. Cleese isn’t politically correct, even though he is a flaming lefty!
“What is one supposed to make of that?”
Classic British understatement.
I was wondering when the tranny mob would go after that one!
Anybody that’s going to offend, needs offending. Reality and all that you know.
The clip is hilarious.
It is indeed, brother. Or sister.
He was never a "flaming lefty," even in his interviews from the 1980s. He was a middle class liberal by 1960s standards.
Which by today's standards makes him "worse than Hitler."
F them.
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!
You mean "worse than Hilter"...
men still cannot have babies....
And thank God for it. That would hurt.
Imogen Hassall has her beat.
🤣
I gave him my baby to kiss and he bit it on the head!
I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’!
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