American Reacts - LIFE OF BRIAN - Stoning Scene 

I love how the Roman guards just look at each other like "why have we bothered with conquering these imbeciles?"

funnily enough this movie was (briefly) banned here in Norway for blasphemy (blasphemy was still against the law, even though it was mostly a dormant law at that point), which prompted Swedish movie theaters to advertise it as "a movie so funny that it was banned in Norway" :p

I remember going to see this in the local cinema in 1979 when it came out. I was fourteen and I laughed like a drain all the way through! Good times! 😁

I watched this movie in Tel Aviv in the early 90s. It was a full room, over a hundred people. Only myself, and one other guy laughed during the entire movie. Everyone else sat in stony silence. When it was over, I waited outside for the other laugher, and we had a great time recounting our favorite scenes and reenacting them as best as we could recollect. Everyone else shuffled off with dour faces, as if they had just watched a documentary on the holocaust. I guess Monty Python are not for everyone...But they are wonderful, IMO. Love them...love them....love them......

The Beatle George Harrison financed this film .

A segment packed with some of my favourite Python moments, - the sheer randomness of the lady carrying the sick donkey "I haven't got time to go to no stonings, he's not well again...." - the concept of being the one throwing gravel at a stoning - the idea that the victim being a local citizen should make any difference to the affair

I love how the regular Roman soldiers are always the most normal and mature people in the movie.

you should watch the whole movie, British comedy at it's best, and well ahead of it's time

I have watched this several times. After becoming a Christian and getting a degree in theology from a university I can promise you it's even funnier.

One of the greatest movies ever made!

This is still one of the most brilliant scenes in any comedy ever!

An amazing movie, it's actually returned to selected UK theatres over the next few days to celebrate the Easter weekend. Just sadly none near my home nor at the right time of day.

Back in the day when comedy was actually funny.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I particularly like the little cackle from Deuterony when the religious leader gets a rock to the back of the head! 🤣 The whole film is utterly brilliant and is in my top movies of all time.

"There's always one isn't there" 😂 Love that line 😂

What better way to ridicule the insane customs of the past. It was clearly human beings taking every opportunity to be legally brutal to their fellow humans. Sadly, those habits still exist.

I have seen this move several times and i laughed just as hard each time.👍❤

Best comedy film ever . Don't argue.

blessed are the cheesemakers

"it's written" means exactly what it says - it's mandated in some official text or book - it usually refers to some requirement in the bible or other fictional religious tome.

Definitely a staple of British comedy cinema, this. Iconic moments throughout

Love python,doesn’t matter how many times we watch it we always have a laugh.

Perfect video for Easter Sunday - although possibly blasphemous! Haha Happy Easter Mandy! 😄🙏

Happy Easter, and thanks for the erm, 'appropriate' Easter post😉Love the film, and still think this film has the one of greatest comedy moments. Brian 'You're all individual!' Crowd replies 'yes, we're all individual' and a small voice from the back says 'I'm not' . I am such a comedy nerd🤓. Keep the great posts coming

'Well, you did say Jehovah'. 🤣 One of the best lines in a movie.

This "stoning" scene wasn't in earliest draft of the script/screenplay. The Pythons wanted to make sure the film didn't have any actual blasphemous material in it, so Graham Chapman sent the script off to a University friend who was now in the Church of England and a chaplain to one of the British Royal Family. The chaplain advised them to include a scene on the topic of blasphemy in the film, and thus we have this gem.

Men pretending to be women pretending to be men

Such a great movie. The double joke about the Middle East in the 70s and the multiple warring factions, same as during the time of Jesus. The bit about the guy wanting to have a baby and being ridiculed for it, the committee that never does anything but talk about meetings, just hilarious.

Religion, probably the easiest target for the pythons to take the piss out of. I remember seeing it when it first came out and it just gets funnier with age

Great laugh and reaction, I love this film and watch it each year as each gag stands the test of time Brian just parallels Jesus' story from the start. one of the lines that stood out for me is Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Follower: I say you are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few! If Life of Brian has a message it is that the viewer should think for himself before blindly following any recently minted messiah (“He’s a very naughty boy”). The key scene is that in which Brian’s followers chant as one: “We are all individuals!”

That movie is so saturated with satire and "points" it unbelievable, unfortunately most people miss it. It should be mandatory in the educational system.

Quite probably the best movie about religion and human credulity ever made. And if I weren't English I would actually be saying that it is the best, it doesn't miss the mark once and you'd have to be an idiot to think that it is at all blasphemous.

i absolutely love this movie and my view count is at 42 ( once a year on christmas, just like the LotR trilogy ). In the German synchro the scene ends also with the big boulder being dumped on the judge, but with a dry "Nice Throw" commentary Also a fun anecdote: at the wedding of a dear friend, me and a bunch of other close friends composed and performed a musical with scenes and songs adapted to events of the life of both the bride and groom, ending with "Every Sperm is Sacred" (another Monty Python Song), cause the bride was expecting ( they married after being in a relation for a decade, so no shot gun involved 🤣). I was standing right in front of the priest, doing the wedding. The thought process that i could see on his face when he was nodding to the melody, then stopping, realizing the lyrics, then shrugging and continuing to nod to us singing was pure gold. Keep up with your reactions, they are very entertaining to watch and for me it is also walking Memory Lane in a good way. 🥰

I recall this anytime someone is canceled for saying the N-word even descriptively.

Ah, "It is written". I often use that at work when someone asks why something is done in a particular way. Baffles 'em every time!

Somehow I don't think we will ever see a similar film about the life of another prophet, not unless the makers have a death wish. I am sure you know who I mean.

"It's written", as in the bible.

If aliens landed in my front yard and demanded information on our species, I would invite them inside for some beers and viewing of Life of Brian.

And a packet of gravel......gets me every time.

This would never get made in today’s pc world

It is WRITTEN (in the old testament of the bible)

It's the most brilliant comedy film ever imho

Let's remember the very important verse John 3:36.

"How does blasphemy work?" Its whatever the religious leaders, the priests, say it is.

Advertised in Sweden as, So funny they banned it in Norway.

The thing with the Monty Python films is even though there is an over arching story, they are still very much like the TV show in that the scenes often come across as smaller skits within the main story. It is especially true with Meaning of life, but even Life of Brian and Holy grail have very much a sketch show formula. I think that while I know you have had to cut this down, the individual scenes do lend themselves to smaller reactions. You can't for really do that with a lot of comedy films.

Along with the brilliant piss-take of the idiocy that is religion, what I love about this scene is men pretending to be women pretending to be men. As regards to: “He’s a local boy.”, it’s a phrase in the UK usually used in an upcoming boxing match where one of the contestants is from “the manor” - ie local. To your question about how blasphemy “works”, there was a situation in Pakistan some years ago in which the accusers tied themselves up in the same knots. The upshot was they could not accuse this particular woman of blasphemy without committing the crime themselves. A law laughable in its stupidity, not least in exposing the craven slave mindset towards a non-existent sky daddy for what it is. Ironically, the planet Jupiter derives its name from the Roman Christian god Deus Pater, which means Sky Father. Yahweh / Jehova is just another manifestation. Moreover - and I say this in all seriousness - The Life of Brian is the most accurate depiction of Christian history ever documented. It’s certainly more accurate than the Homeric rip-offs and the anti-Semitic bollocks we get in the New Testament!

Funniest thing is the two bored Roman soldiers - looking at each other as if to say 'should we be doing anything', and obviously thinking 'why bother'.

Wow Mandy Cane Lane is gorgeous

Thanks for being quality entertainment, as always. Six days until I move now, so fingers crossed I can regulate just enjoy Manders videos like normal soon 👍 fucking ball ache moving house though I suggest nobody ever does it 🤣

To misquote Winston Churchill: 'Never in the field of human comedy have so many laughed at so much provided by so few!'

Well, stone me! I need a moment to get Jehova this 🤭

The film "Monty Python's Life" of Brian was banned in several countries, including in Norway, which meant that in the neighboring country of Sweden (where I'm from) the cinemas gave the film the subtitle "The film that was so funny it was banned in Norway". John Cleese and Michael Palin engaged in a debate on the BBC2 discussion program "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" with the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, who both were against the film and considered it blasphemous. That debate is worth checking out (available here on RU-vid) as the only ones who seem to have something inside the frontal bone are the two comedians who gave serious, well-researched points, while their two counter-debaters who represented the Church of England engaged in cheap jibes, point scoring and both mostly came across as two pompous idiots who didn't even seem to have a clue what they were talking about.

are you doing the whole film? It is my favourite film to see reactions from

There is a certain comic genius in having men pretending to be women pretending to be men.

One ov my all time fave films...hands down..

It really IS one of the funnies movies ever made, and it is utterly timeless, it is as good today as when it was first released. Much because they were making fun of EVERYONE (everyone except for Jesus which makes all the criticism it got when it came out so funny in hindsight)

"How does blasphemy work?" They believed that magic was unquestionably real, and names carried power. So uttering the name of the Lord was a blatant misuse of magical power, bound to bring negative consequences to everyone. Hence a blasphemy that deserved a stoning.

Just found your channel and your reactions are brilliant, thank you

"Blasphemy", according to automatic translation = "blessed for me"

I watched this as a student. In a college theatre, full of students. Try to imagine the volume of the laughs. Years later. I won a telephone competition. And the prize was two tickets to see the film in Leicester Square and meet the cast. That was after Graham passed, but the rest showed aside from Eric. Had hoped to meet Spike Milligan, but hey ho.

Men pretending to be women pretending to be men. Only Monte Python could pull that off.

Monty Phyton. The Young ones. Buttom. Two pint of lager and a packet of crisp. Red dwarf watch and laugh!

Living on the island of jersey at the time ( channel Islands) unfortunately the movie was banned. Made up for it when I got back to the UK . .

yep, that's the end of the scene. like most movie scenes they don't last very long. "it is written" is a common excuse for many injustices and atrocities. for some odd reason, some religions declare it a major sin to simply utter the name of the god they worship. is that why christian's didn't name their god and just call him "god?" of course god jr has a name. remember, religion has nothing to do with the belief of a future afterlife but based is upon the control of the present population through fear. isn't dogma wonderful?

"How does it work"? Well, that's 3rd Commandment and it can be somewhat tricky in interpretation so some folks are taking it quite literally.

I remember Cleese and Palin confronting Malcolm Muggeridge and an Anglican bishop who thought that this film was blasphemous and they ripped them to pieces. It isn't: it's just bloody hilarious.

Such a great film... And so many brilliant scenes. I watched the film numerous times, and I can laugh again and again. 😀

Why didn't -mum- dad haggle? They're supposed to haggle. BURT!

One of my favourite all time films, take a look at Monty python's the meaning of life, another all time great , regards from England 🍺🍹👍

The fact that they are not allowed to speak the name of Yehova is dogma in ancient Judaism (I do not know if it still is) It can only be written. That is why scholars are not sure if the name is Yehova or Yahwe.

Monty Python group was absolutely fabulous......

The Life of Brian is definitely the funniest movie ever made. The Holy Grail is a close second.

Here in Denmark the commercials said "So funny that it's banned in Norway"😂 ( our dear neighbours with a very similar language to ours 😉 - so we always joke about each others back and forth ). And it was actually true - at least for a while 😂

This still causes controversy, the courage these guys had to create this , they just went for it.

Men pretending to be women pretending to be men. PRICELESS!!!

Until 2009 this film was banned in Glasgow, Scotland.

A young American you mean...it's not like the movie didn't play in America years ago.

There is a thing I had missed. At the walk to the stoning, Cleese says that Jesus doesn't realize that the meek are part of the problem.

You know Mandy, if you want a beard, you can just knit one out of your cats stray hairs or something. You don't need to try to 'normalize' the idea by showing us clips like this. You'll be showing us Eurovision footage of Conchita next! I'm sure you'll look quite fetching in a beard, so just do it. You do you. And think of all the stonings you could attend. Not to mention the extra cash you could earn next time the travelling circus comes to town. Could be quite lucrative. 🤔 😂 (I was going to suggest onlyfans, but that's probably too weird for an already very silly joke, right?) Enough of that nonsense. Well, I don't really do Easter, but just in case you do, HAPPY EASTER! Hope you had fun. And thanks for the funny memories😊

Such a funny movie. Thanks for your reaction & Happy Easter too Mandy 🐣🥙🍀

Why can't he say it ? Thou shalt not call God your Lord's name in vain. - or sth to that effect is one of commandments.

Do we have a Buwian? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! I wonder how many Christians know Jehovah started off as a mountain thunder god. A god who relishes in blood and death. A god of bandit nomads. Before evolving over the centuries into the Judean god. An amalgamation of many middle eastern faiths.

@0:50 'It's written' like written in the scriptures, word and law of god

I am reminded of a quote from Jesus "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" awful lot of non sinners in the stoning crowd.

there should be a good one this afternoon a local boy that line cracks me up everytime

They've mastered the art of acting as a man acting as a woman acting as a man.

Welcome to British humour, sweetie...

FOR THE JEWS IN THOSE ANCIENT TIMES WAS EXTREMELY PROHIBITED TO SAY THE NAME OF GOD. THAT IS WHY HE GOT STONED.

With new eyes heart and mind, how primitive are we? God bless us.

"It's WRITTEN, THAT's why!"

I remember my town (Nottingham) banned this at the time and i had to go over to the next county to see it.

Men pretending to be women pretending to be men. Gotta love it.

Funded by George Harrison.

Looks the British humour went over your head

A man, playing a woman, pretending to be a man...

Men playing women pretending to be men. Awesome

Packet of Gravel just passed over her head

i like the "good shot" line at the end.

He's gonna say it .. oops ... knights of ni