{"id":50519,"date":"2023-05-23T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50519"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:27:34","slug":"times-have-changed-and-we-have-lost-our-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50519","title":{"rendered":"Times Have Changed And We Have Lost Our Sense Of Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was never a Monty Python fan, but I have to admit that some of the skits in their movies were funny. Some were controversial, but also very funny. On Monday, Steven Hayward at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/05\/loretta-cancels-monty-python.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article about plans to create a stage musical based on <em>The Life of Brian<\/em>. However, there is a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The skit below is the problem:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dgp9MPLEAqA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think the skit is not only funny, it is very timely. The movie was made in 1979, but the above scene totally captures where we are today.<\/p>\n<p>The article at Power Line Blog reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Well guess what? There is a stage musical version of <em>Life of Brian<\/em> in development, largely because of the success of \u201cSpamalot,\u201d the stage musical version of <em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>. And guess which scene the producers have said must be cut out? Of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12100471\/ALISON-BOSHOFF-John-Cleese-forced-cut-Life-Brian-scene-men-having-babies-new-show.html\">you don\u2019t need to guess<\/a> at all:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Cleese, 83, the prime mover in the revival, said: \u2018I think Life Of Brian is our best film. We are going to do it in London in the second half of next year and I\u2019ve changed certain things.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>One exchange which has had to come out is the discussion between People\u2019s Front of Judea members Stan (played by Idle) and Reg (Cleese). Stan says that he wants to be known as Loretta and to have babies. \u2018It\u2019s every man\u2019s right to have babies if you want them,\u2019 says Stan. Reg counters: \u2018But \u2014 you can\u2019t have babies.\u2019 At which Stan responds: \u2018Don\u2019t you oppress me.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Cleese told an audience at his one-man show last week that when the scene (co-written with the late Graham Chapman) was performed at a read-through for the new show in New York last year, doubts emerged. \u2018At the end, I said to the American actors: \u2018What do you think?\u2019 And they said: \u2018We love the script, but you can\u2019t do that stuff about Loretta nowadays.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u2018So here you have something there\u2019s never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I\u2019ve heard of, and now all of a sudden we can\u2019t do it because it\u2019ll offend people. What is one supposed to make of that? But I think there were a lot of things that were actually, in some strange way, predictive of what was actually going to happen later.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have lost our sense of humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never a Monty Python fan, but I have to admit that some of the skits in their movies were funny. Some were controversial, but also very funny. On Monday, Steven Hayward at Power Line Blog posted an article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16590,16588,8203,16591,16589],"class_list":["post-50519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-loretta","tag-monty-python","tag-power-line-blog","tag-spamalot","tag-the-life-of-brian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50520,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50519\/revisions\/50520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}