The 'Life of Brian' Debate (1979)

Wikipedia:

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in a what would become an infamous debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

Muggeridge and the Bishop had arrived 15 minutes late to see a screening of the picture prior to the debate, missing the establishing scenes which demonstrated that Brian and Jesus were two different characters, and hence contended that it was a send-up of Christ himself.

Both Pythons later felt that there had been a strange role reversal in the manner of the debate, with two young upstart comedians attempting to make serious, well-researched points, while the establishment figures engaged in cheap jibes and point scoring


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[AlexisCapri]

If the Bishop and Malcolm Muggeridge are in heaven, and the Pythons are going to Hell, I intend to sin for the rest of my life so I can go to a preferable place when I die.

[Feitanyo]

the bishop looks like Bilbo Baggins

[AndyHarpist]

@excelente81

Semantics, my dear friend

[TheOrangeFondler]

Those religious guys are dead huh? Shame, I'd love to see Dawkins rip into them.

[trainchugger53]

If anyone's noticed this yet, DAVID TENNANT IS NARRATING!

[Tenebrous76]

@AlexisCapri

eternity with the likes of the Bishop and Malcolm Muggeridge would be hell.

[Tenebrous76]

To be honest, nothing has changed in religious angst against anything in the contemporary society.

[excelente81]

@AndyHarpist I think the poke is on christians, not christ.

[AndyHarpist]

@PrimitiveChrome Oh more than once old chap. But despite a few afficiondos rolling in the aisles many of their films suffered from a lack of.. well, humour really.

Home movies, frequently labouring a modest joke, over too long a time.

[PrimitiveChrome]

@AndyHarpist So, you haven't actually watched the film then.

[AndyHarpist]

To pretend that the film didnt intentially poke fun at Christ, as Clees said, is ingenuous.Ridicule it certainly was.... whatever your feelings about religion, or comedy. Does he seriously think the watcher cannot see this ?

[LurchibaldBioshock]

I just love the fact they those god guys call it tenth rate yet it is still watched and loved by people today 30 years later.