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Park Road Flag 14 Jan 18 8.46am

Just a quick poll to find out who thinks this is funny or offensive?
Vote- F for funny and O for offensive.
Not looking for a discussion just interested on how you vote

Remember just F.O.

Life of Brian Script
Scene 25: Pilate's Speech Impediment Becomes a Pwoblem
The sketch:
trumpets

CROWD: cheering

PILATE: People of Jewusalem!

CROWD: chuckling

PILATE: Wome is your fwiend.

CROWD: laughing

PILATE: To pwove our fwiendship, it is customawy at this time to welease a wongdoer fwom our pwisons.

CROWD: laughing

GUARD #3: chuckling

PILATE: Whom would you have me welease?

BOB HOSKINS: Welease Woger!

CROWD: Yes! Welease Woger! Welease Woger! laughing

PILATE: Vewy well. I shall welease Woger!

CROWD: cheering

CENTURION: Sir, uh, we don't have a 'Woger', sir.

PILATE: What?

CENTURION: Uh, we don't have anyone of that name, sir.

PILATE: Ah. We have no 'Woger'!

CROWD: Ohhhhh!

BOB: Well, what about Wodewick, then?

CROWD: Yes! Welease Wodewick! Welease Wodewick!

PILATE: Centuwion, why do they titter so?

CENTURION: Just some, uh, Jewish joke, sir.

PILATE: Are they... wagging me?

CENTURION: Oh, no, sir!

GUARD #3: chuckling

PILATE: Vewy well. I shall welease... Wodewick!

CROWD: laughing

CENTURION: Sir, we don't have a 'Roderick' either.

PILATE: No 'Woger'? No 'Wodewick'?

CENTURION: Sorry, sir.

PILATE: Who is this 'Wod'--

GUARD #1: chuckle

PILATE: Who is the 'Wodewick' to whom you wefer?

BOB: He's a wobber!

CROWD: laughing

MAN: And a wapist!

CROWD: laughing

WOMAN: And a pickpocket!

CROWD: Yeah! Ahh, no! No! Shh! Shh!...

PILATE: He sounds a notowious cwiminal.

CENTURION: We haven't got him, sir. Mm hm.

PILATE: Do we have anyone in our pwisons at all?

CENTURION: Oh, yes, sir. We've got, uh, 'Samson', sir.

PILATE: Samson?

CENTURION: Samson the Sadducee Strangler, sir. Uh, Silus the Syrian Assassin. Uh, several seditious scribes from Caesarea. Uhhh, sixty-seven seers from--

BIGGUS: Let me thpeak to them, Pontiuth!

CENTURION: Oh, no. Oh.

PILATE: Ah. Good idea, Biggus.

BIGGUS: Thitizens! We have Thamthon the Thadduthee Thtrangler, Thilus...

CROWD: laughing

BIGGUS: ...the Athyrian Athathin, theveral theditiouth thcribth from Thaetharea, and...

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Edited by Park Road (14 Jan 2018 8.53am)

 

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View martin2412's Profile martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 14 Jan 18 9.36am Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

Funny. But wait for the poor little snowflakes to be offended.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 14 Jan 18 9.41am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Not funny but no doubt it will appeal to knuckle draggers

 

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Park Road Flag 14 Jan 18 9.52am

A lot of postwar British humour was based on deflating the pompousness of the "upper classes." Monty Python was brilliant at this. The actors themselves came from a range of class backgrounds, which makes their humour even more broadly-based. 

So not just knuckle draggers

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View martin2412's Profile martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 14 Jan 18 10.06am Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Not funny but no doubt it will appeal to knuckle draggers

Please don't call me a knuckle dragger. I find that offensive.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 14 Jan 18 10.18am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by martin2412

Please don't call me a knuckle dragger. I find that offensive.

Are you a snowflake then?

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 14 Jan 18 10.23am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Park Road

A lot of postwar British humour was based on deflating the pompousness of the "upper classes." Monty Python was brilliant at this. The actors themselves came from a range of class backgrounds, which makes their humour even more broadly-based. 

But that was 45 years ago and humour has changed. Monty Python was my favourite program in it's day but times change.

Let's not forget that sketches taking the mickey out of speech impediments came from an era when many people still called their black dog N***** and when kids played with golly**** none of which is acceptable in this day and age

 

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View gmostone's Profile gmostone Flag 14 Jan 18 10.27am Send a Private Message to gmostone Add gmostone as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Not funny but no doubt it will appeal to knuckle draggers

Why would that appeal to knuckle draggers? Time of the month perhaps?

 

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Park Road Flag 14 Jan 18 10.43am

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

But that was 45 years ago and humour has changed. Monty Python was my favourite program in it's day but times change.

Let's not forget that sketches taking the mickey out of speech impediments came from an era when many people still called their black dog N***** and when kids played with golly**** none of which is acceptable in this day and age

Yes it was 45 years or so.

Barry kripke is a character on "the big bang theory" a contemporary sit -com.

The humour is that of 45 years ago yet still people laugh.

Quote from Barry Kripke

Kripke: Siwi, can you wecommend a westauwant?
Siri: I'm sorry, Bawwy. I don't understand "wecommend a westauwant."


Quote from Barry Kripke

Barry Kripke: Listen to me. Not westauwant, westauwant. See, total cwap. You suck, Siwi!

 

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jeeagles Flag 14 Jan 18 11.02am

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Not funny but no doubt it will appeal to knuckle draggers


Oxbridge educated knuckle draggers.

It's only a bit of fun. This just highlights the current social media trend where if you don't agree with someone else's subjective opinion they get told their opinion is wrong and that they are stupid.

The life of brian used daft comedy to ridicule the establishment including the church, the government, and activist all at the same time. It's silly jokes caused outrage to those who take themselves too seriously. It was a real trail blazer for all the parodies we have now.

Before Jesus was executed the Romans offered a pardon to one prisoner and the crowd picked known criminal Jesus Barabbas instead. The joke here could show that when offered the choice, the general public will go for a cheap laugh rather than a sensible option every time. Therefore, the joke is on the people who find the speech impediment funny and not on the impediment itself.

You could probably read into this in loads of different ways, but going back to my original statement, it's just a bit of fun.

 

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I will laugh at what I please and no one will ever stop me. End of conversation.

The thought police can f*** right off.

 

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Park Road Flag 14 Jan 18 11.27am

Originally posted by jeeagles


Oxbridge educated knuckle draggers.

It's only a bit of fun. This just highlights the current social media trend where if you don't agree with someone else's subjective opinion they get told their opinion is wrong and that they are stupid.

The life of brian used daft comedy to ridicule the establishment including the church, the government, and activist all at the same time. It's silly jokes caused outrage to those who take themselves too seriously. It was a real trail blazer for all the parodies we have now.

Before Jesus was executed the Romans offered a pardon to one prisoner and the crowd picked known criminal Jesus Barabbas instead. The joke here could show that when offered the choice, the general public will go for a cheap laugh rather than a sensible option every time. Therefore, the joke is on the people who find the speech impediment funny and not on the impediment itself.

You could probably read into this in loads of different ways, but going back to my original statement, it's just a bit of fun.

Exactly! Well said

 

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