Best Comedy Ever!

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2004)

You don't get much better comedy than Monty Python. There were four films and a couple of unofficial ones like Time Bandits and Erik The Viking but out of the four Python films Life of Brian is without doubt the greatest comedy along with Spinal Tap I have ever seen. What I love about Life of Brian most is that it is a British film and it was a film that had done well over in the States and it was a chance for America to look at a British set of actors and see how funny and inventive they are, but they did try and get on the wrong side of people as well with the topic of Jesus. What also I admire is how they are taking the Mick out of religion but it also has a good message to it whether people who religious liked it or not. But like The Passion you should look at it for a filmmakers point of view and not judge it on it's controversy. The scene at the end where they are all on the cross and Brian just accepts what is happening and then another man behind him decides to sing `Always look on the bright side of life'. I think that was the way of the Pythons to say to the world that no matter how much you take your life seriously you should always look on the better on things in life and that really kicks into me when the sing the song at the end. Whether it was mean't to be like that I don't know but it makes you happy thinking it.
Now to my favourite scenes, where do you begin with something so amazing. Well any scene involving the Roman emperor and his Big Dickus remarks will never stop being funny especially when he calls Brian `A Jewish rap scallion'. And also any scene involving John Cleese.
A comedy marvel that gets funnier with every watch and if a comedy can do that then it must go in the books as one of the most inventive and original comedies ever which is what the Pythons were and what Life of Brian is and will be forever.