Life of Life of Brian

I'm watching some strange movie entitled THE BEST YOU'VE NEVER SEEN on the Ovation channel about the debate that took place just after the release of Monty Python's incredible Life of Brian:

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in a what would become a notorious 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 demonstrating 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. They also expressed disappointment in Muggeridge, whom all in Python had previously respected as a satirist. Cleese expressed that his reputation had "plummeted" in his eyes, while Palin commented that, "He was just being Muggeridge, preferring to have a very strong contrary opinion as opposed to none at all". Muggeridge's verdict on the film was that it was "Such a tenth-rate film that it couldn't possibly destroy anyone's genuine faith".

When I was little kid, I remember hearing this joke (granted, I'm sure the role of "Engineer" was played by "Polack"):

Once there were three men who were going to be executed with the guillotine during the French Revolution. The first man was a mathematician, the second man was an artist, and the third man was a engineer.

The police led the mathematician up and told him to say his last words. He said, "I will always die for my country." The men led him to the guillotine. The blade stopped an inch from his neck. The police said that it must be the will of God that the mathematician would not die.

The same thing happened to the artist. His last words were, "I will always die for my country." He was led to the guillotine and the blade stopped an inch from his neck. The police said that it must be the will of God that the artist would not die.

When the police led the engineer up and told him to say his last words, he said, "I think I know how to fix the guillotine."

On the Life of Brian Wiki page I see this:

Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, while promoting Holy Grail in Amsterdam, had come up with a sketch in which Jesus' cross was falling apart because of the idiotic carpenters who built it and he angrily tells them how to do it correctly.

Ha! Fucking hell. What a great movie, both in Idle's initial farcical title and what may be the funniest movie scene of all time.