Monty Python - If your're gonna do a graffiti spell it right

Clip from the Life of Brian

• Category

  Comedy

[Richard Craven]

This sketch illustrates yet again that good comedy requires an element of truth. If you've had Latin lessons at an English public school I'm sure you'll know what I mean. This is based on a great idea. Being made to repeat the graffiti 100 times is so surreal.

[nick harman]

So like my Latin lessons, although my teacher never actually pulled a sword on me. I don't suppose today's kids get the joke, from comments on YouTube it seems most of them barely speak English let alone know Latin. And of course teachers today aren't allowed to twist a boy's ear, more's the pity.

[eurasianchica]

Salve! I was blessed to be able to go to one of the few American public high schools that still offers Latin. Our teacher terrorized us as freshmen memorizing all those conjugation and declension endings, but it was so worth it. Those four years were the best (education related) experience of my life.

[Brian Moeglein]

First time in 20 years and it still makes me laugh

[olookslike0]

Hey, i didn't know that the Romans had British accents...

[lexpelicana1]

Winter 1969, latin lessons as a 9 year old boy at prep school, even the sideburn tweaking was the same!! Ah memories!!

[SkittleStorm]

Makes me laugh every time. I take AS level Latin, which makes it all the more amusing.

[Sinclair McShane]

I think my high school Spanish teacher subscribed to this philosophy of teaching.

[Floafffy]

Love how the daytime crew shows up at the end...

[urGermanfriend]

my favorite scene of the movie!

[klauzes]

Right (not in the pejorative sense). A bunch of retard, most kids nowadays. But every now and then there will be a kid wholl get it hopefully.

[nick harman]

No Klauzes my point was that UK kids speak English badly.The joke here comes from a time when Latin was actually taught in many UK schools, today's UK kids cant speak english very well and they will never have a Latin lesson, so the joke is lost on them