"Loretta" scene being censored from Life of Brian stage remake

[zibzibara]

John Cleese is forced to cut famous Life of Brian scene about men having babies from his new West End show

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. 'At the end, I said to the American actors: 'What do you think?' And they said: 'We love the script, but you can't do that stuff about Loretta nowadays.'

'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? 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.'

[Backstreets]

Good man! I would have been bloody cross if he'd gone all in on his anti woke curmudgeon act in later years only to cave in on this!
And now a hell of a lot more people know there's a Life of Brian play coming...

[EdithStourton]

@GrumpyPanda

Just came in to say this.

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1661672993657962497

Oh GOOD.
Well done, John. Carry on with the the good work.

[Xenia]

Well done to JC. "and that all the actors - several of them Tony winners - had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene. I have, of course, no intention of doing so So someone in the audience had called a journalist and misreported me. Amazingly none of the British media called to check"

In my view the tide is starting to turn in that it is becoming slightly easier to have a view other than the ONE RIGHT PATH view on the trans issue. However it will take a lot of people objecting to what people who live in an echo chamber of others of their view are saying.

[SerendipityJane]

Cleese is a HELL of a businessman

Have you seen the prices for his business videos ?

[RealityFan]

@SerendipityJane

Cleese is a HELL of a businessman

Have you seen the prices for his business videos ?

Can I afford him?

[SerendipityJane]

@RealityFan

Can I afford him?

No idea. I saw one in the 80s at Uni - it was very funny and very educational. About business efficiency. I suggested it to the L&D team when I started in corporate employment and was taken aback that it was out of their price range. I suspect you had to buy/licence the whole package and it was £00,000s

But then as he mentioned in his one man show a few years back, his ex wives do need the money.

[RealityFan]

I believe he was one of the first well known TV/film personalities happy to be in commercials. Sony Trinitron in late 70s/early 80s. Most stars turned their collective perfumed noses at such demeaning stuff.

As he said in an interview, he made a packet. And he will from this.

[SerendipityJane]

Sony Trinitron in late 70s/early 80s.

God, I feel old.

[RealityFan]

@SerendipityJane

Sony Trinitron in late 70s/early 80s.

God, I feel old.

Cleese was in his 30s playing Basil Fawlty. Then again, everyone looked old back then, lol.

[QueenBitch666]

twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1661672993657962497?fbclid=IwAR0UVEaVnLO9hXWyeF8vW0wQTDL16nW3JSEAhpsi8LuZyjBemk6xk8fPX3c

No plans to cut out Loretta

[Tallisker]

Did he do Accurist adverts? Accurist (on a wrist), Accurankle (on an ankle) etc

Or have I just made that up?

[IcakethereforeIam]

I don't know why I remember but Ronnie Barker did those.

[Tallisker]

Maybe I'm getting it muddled up with Clockwork 😂

[ValuePartnership]

• I want to have babies
• But you don't have a womb. What are you going to use, a cardboard box?

[ifIwerenotanandroid]

@RealityFan

I believe he was one of the first well known TV/film personalities happy to be in commercials. Sony Trinitron in late 70s/early 80s. Most stars turned their collective perfumed noses at such demeaning stuff.

As he said in an interview, he made a packet. And he will from this.

Is that 'they made it from 32 bits of a bus' or something like that? Loved it.