https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/monty-pythons-life-of-brian-stage-show-being-rewritten-to-avoid-offending-trans-people/
So conservatives are accused of banning books for trying to keep overtly sexual content out of grade school libraries while these same accusers insist you can't ridicule the idea of men having babies.Quote:
One exchange which has had to come out is the discussion between People's 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. 'It's every man's right to have babies if you want them,' says Stan. Reg counters: 'But you can't have babies.' At which Stan responds: 'Don't you oppress me.'
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.'
