Friday Night, Saturday Morning - Life of Brian (incomplete)

[bluewhale18]

did they ever make another film?

[madduck09]

i disliked it as it incomplete

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

Personally I would've had sex rather than switch on the tv and listen to this Bishop's blubbering nonsense.

[phocjame]

Decades later, and our Life of Brian is effectively a national treasure.

[Katysguy]

Here's the thing, you never hear the religious comedians complaining about things like life of Brian because THEY HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR!!!

[Smalltown125]

As someone who's name is Brian, I thought Palin's reason for using the name Brian to be terrific... then again, I AM Canadian as well.

[richievegas01]

Did the two of them actually miss the beginning of the film, meaning they didn't actually see Jesus at the start?

[MoctezumasMissus]

Oh god if Michael Palin was 30 years younger... ;)

[TheVarsh86]

I'd like to think we now live in a better, more intellectual world... But we still have religious hinderance :-\

[simonm7133]

Stockwood came across as patronising, vain and self righteous. Muggeridge was his usual zealot like self. Muggeridge was a Catholic convert who had previously been a communist atheist- hence the zealotry enthusiasm. They completely missed the film's message about religious mania and which is all too prevalent in today's society. today's society. Life of Brian was a work of genius and the only one who comes close in terms of humour and satire is Chris Morris with his Four Lions.

[CrackPedlar]

Lol kosk!!

[WatchVenusSpa]

Brian was proof positive that the Kids in the Hall will NEVER be in the same conversation as Python.

[TheGRH1994]

WHY DIDNT CLEESE RESPOND WITH AN INSULT

[mattman3691]

I love the fact that the Bishop and Malcolm didn't even see the first 15 minutes of the film so they missed the whole fucking joke (Y)

[TheVoiceOfSpoons]

Seems strange that a bishop would complain about their treatment of the subject of death, since presumably he would believe in in heaven and the after life, and therefore should see death as something glorious.

[leonardsleopard]

charles edwards and darren boyd did a pretty damn good job, didn't they?

[TheOmegajuice]

You have to be very unobservant to think that Brian is Jesus

[squigglyphotography]

Watched this after seeing the brilliant "Holy Flying Circus" on BBC4 yesterday. Just makes me want to watch Life of Brian now lol.

[imsum12]

Full unedited version on BBC iplayer now guys.

[TheGRH1994]

@imsum12 Could you link it i cant find it?

[Dave83C]

IT'S DA BISHOP!

[peterdcarter1]

Shame the debate is cut to buggery

[bengeeman24]

The introduction to this program is more controversial than Monty Python's Life of Brian.

[Gubbywubby]

Loved the Bishop's comments about Mao being on the dog heap. Look at China today.

[indy8149]

Is there a full version of this anywhere? I can never find a complete version of the actual "debate" part.

[TheRandyChimp]

@indy8149 It'll be on next wednesday, the 19th, on BBC4, after the "Holy Flying Circus" thing.

[indy8149]

@TheRandyChimp Thanks, hopefully I'll be able to find it online, as I live in the US.

[TheRandyChimp]

@indy8149 Well loads of people look for the full debate, I have a feeling someone might record and upload it to youtube. I'll send you a message or something if I find it on here after its been on tv :)

[indy8149]

@TheRandyChimp thanks, you're a champion =D

[TheRandyChimp]

@indy8149 np

[metalfreakenwierdo]

regardless of what i think of religion (atheist ) my real problem is suggesting jesus is the greatest man who ever lived what of charles darwin, einstein, issac newton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Ghandi etc. I realise Im picking a fight with christianity more than defending the film which is brilliant, besides religion will carry on despite how hard common sense logically argues otherwise. HE'S NOT THE MESSIAH HES A VERY NAUGHTY BOY!

[Monaqute]

24:57 look at Michael and listen him! That's how feelings look and sound like.

[TulseLuper]

The Bishop is hilarious. He steals the show (An alcoholic and gay, incidentally. No hypocrisy there.) Thank you so much for posting this.

[delatijera]

Did Malcom Muggeridge forgotten all great civilization before Christ? Did he forgotten the marvelous poets, phylosophers, architects, artists that existed in the Greek civilization? Even for that year, this is retograde thinking.

*My firm belief is that they (Muggeridge and Stockwood) needed a propper fuck... just to lighten up.

[jurysout1]

A serial shagger (Muggeridge) and an in the closet gay bishop (Stockwood) pretend to be offended out of a sense of duty rather than any genuine moral ire. If LOB had been made 10 years earlier it wouldn't have got past the censor but thankfully it did even though in my then native city of Hull the local council got it banned.

I had to wait years to see in on video.

[rbzvncnt]

Which Python plays the bishop? he is so ridiculous that he can not be a real existing person, I think he is a trainee of the Academy of Spanish Inquisition: my question is..., my two quest... my three questions are..., even the Uniform, although an other shade of red and without the funny hat. MP should have incorporated this debate in their next film about the spanish Inquisition (with Brian just hanging around, singing music hall songs).

[Krunkalunga]

Host: "What was your review of the film?"

Bishop: *talks about Jesus' importance in modern society for five minutes*

[rohanwotan2]

Thank you for posting this! A rare find and nice to see it preserved.

[XrAiDeN]

Been looking for a long clip of this for years, thanks!

[armadafanforever]

The bishop needs to shut... up... or I will reach through my screen and strangle him with his own cross

[themontypythonmuseum]

@armadafanforever Actually it seems they were just doing it to play to the crowd! They went back to 'normal' as soon as they were backstage. That's what the pythons said in one of the documentaries anyway. They're not being vindictive, they're being insincere. The fools.

[armadafanforever]

@themontypythonmuseum I know that, but what I was referring to was him saying "I have a question." Then rambling on for about five minutes about things that have nothing to do with the film or the matter at hand

[themontypythonmuseum]

@armadafanforever Well, yes, but doesn't it make it even worse that they only did it for cheap laughs?

[armadafanforever]

@themontypythonmuseum A little...

[darkprose]

@themontypythonmuseum It makes it very surreal---almost as if it WAS a Python sketch. Life imitating...well, you know. Still, the Bishop comes off as a pompous ass in this, totally unsympathetic and stereotypical, and finding out that it was mostly done to be deliberately perverse or for show makes him even more unsympathetic. The Pythons appear completely sincere.

[JoeyLemons06]

@themontypythonmuseum A religious figure!? Being insincere!? But he does it so well, anyone would think the church has had aeons of experience at it.

[TheGRH1994]

@armadafanforever I'd do the same... if he wasnt a 6 foot beast. And i'd smack the bloke next to him with a face like a slapt arse.

[kyrastube]

thanks so much for this!

[pathduck]

Thank you so much for this longer version, its a very important clip. And the bishop is making a total buffoon of himself isn't he :)

[alinemerrow]

Oh gosh I love you! So fab.

After all a decent version of this debate.... Brian bless you!

[Elvendorkk]

Great work :D Thank you so much !!!

I was sick to not find longer version than 3 or 4 minutes ones.