There is this moment when Cleese says” Well it’s a joke name sir” and then gives an ever so slight nod of the head to just slightly emphasize the point... absolute genius acting
The back story to this scene is that the extras were told that whatever happens they must not laugh or they won’t be getting paid for that days filming. That’s why they were trying so hard to hold it in and the guys laugh at the end just makes this one of the best and funniest scenes in the entire film😂😂😂😂
The expression of that guard is priceless when Michael comes up from behind and says, "He has a wife, you know." He's thinking, "Oh please, stop! I cannot hold it in any longer!
Think about the actors playing the guards, they got told that if they smiled or laughed out loud they would lose their pay. And they din't get told the jokes before hand.
"The little wascal has spiwit." "Has what sir?" "Spiwit." "Yes, he did sir. " "No no... Spiwit, uh... Bwavado, a touch of dewwing do." "Oh, uh, about eleven sir." Love that little exchange :p
"Oh, and uh--throw him to the floor sir?' "What?" "Throw him to the floor again sir?" "Oh yes, throw him to the floor please." That part always cracks me up--ha ha.
Years ago, at sea....I'd keep the 3rd mate company on the Bridge: We'd stand in each corner of the wheelhouse and recite verbatim the lines of the various scenes. After one such side splitting session, a voice from the chartroom said: "Are you two completely mad!" It was the Captain who, unfortunately, had not seen the film!
Absolutely Brilliant.. ‘Naughtius Macimux’.. ‘I think it’s a joke sir... like sillius soddus or Biggus Dikkus sir’ ‘He has a wife you know... she is called Incontinentia ..’ Michael Palin should have got an Oscar for just keeping a straight face..
I remember when Bill Murray said that he considered SCTV right up there with Saturday Night Live and Monty Python....uh, one of those three should not be mentioned in the same breath as the other two.....here's a hint: I'm talking about Saturday Night Live.
In addition to everything else about this scene, I love the early part where John Cleese can't understand the question, so just answers randomly. It's what I do when someone has a terrible accent that I can't understand even after asking them to repeat themselves a few times. Hopefully they get the point and stop talking to me.
He's not answering randomly, he's just making his best approximation of what Pontius said, and trying to answer accordingly. For instance, his reply of "yes sir...i think about 11" was because he guessed that pontius was asking if it was "nearing noon"?, rather than saying "Derring do".
I watched this scene many times and just noticed a small continuity mistake. @3:44 Brian starts his escape on the wide shot and then starts his escape again on his closeup … i guess they had the perfect take they had to use.
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It is indeed wordplay. Pilate is saying, normally, the following: "The little rascal has spirit!" "Has what sir?" "Spirit." "Yes he did sir." < That there is the first joke. That's an inappropriate response to what Pilate said. He should have said "Yes he does." Therefore the audience gets the impression that Centurion isn't fully understanding him.
it sounds better translated in german, but the english version is very funny too, look the centurio who always must slap brian has got x-formed legs...and he is telling cesar "bigus digus" is a joke name... :)
"No no... Spirit, uh, Bravado, a touch of derring-do." "Oh. Uh, about eleven sir." < The second part of the joke, Once again, Centurion hasn't a clue what Pilate has said, or has heard something entirely different to what we, the audience have heard. Centurion's response should have been something like, "Oh I see, sir." or you know something like that. Totally destroyed the joke by explaining it, apologies folks. =P Hope that helps anyway.
That is exactly one joke i don't get. As I'm German, I'm used to the german version and Pilate's speech impediment there is a different one. So I don't get the joke in this scene. Is it a kind of wordplay as well? Would be very nice if somebody could help me :)
It's kind of just 2 jokes in one. The impediment doesn't strictly require the Biggus Dickus bit, but it's just a roman related joke. So you could have two scenes, one with a roman emperor with a speech impediment saying things like "thwow him to the fwoow" which is quite funny, and another scene of an emperor talking about his friend biggus, and they'd both be funny but they're funnier together, I think. As for word play its just the simple stuff you probably noticed: Biggus dickus - big d**k Naughtius maximus- Naughty (and then I think maximus was a common name so its a play on maximum I guess) Incontinentia Buttox - Incontinence butt Sillius soddus - silly sod So nothing more fancy than that. I think that's part of why it's so funny - it very barely makes sense to begin with, and only gets more silly as it goes on. :)
How is it possible to laugh this hard after watching something 10,000 times?
Because it is always fun to watch some rapscallion be thwown to the floor.
Because it's actual comedy 😅😅😅
There is this moment when Cleese says” Well it’s a joke name sir” and then gives an ever so slight nod of the head to just slightly emphasize the point... absolute genius acting
Oi Varus!Give me back my Legions!😁👍
They don't make em like that anymore
The look on the soldiers face when Pillot say "he has a wife you know".
It's like he's thinking "Oh no, no more"
The back story to this scene is that the extras were told that whatever happens they must not laugh or they won’t be getting paid for that days filming. That’s why they were trying so hard to hold it in and the guys laugh at the end just makes this one of the best and funniest scenes in the entire film😂😂😂😂
I take it no one got paid that day xD
They told them that on purpose so they would react that way
I heard another version inseatd where if they laughed they would get sacked instead of not getting paid for the day. its probably just a rumor though
Well, regardless if the rumor's right or not, it's definitely a great way to get every ounce of acting out of your extras
The expression of that guard is priceless when Michael comes up from behind and says, "He has a wife, you know." He's thinking, "Oh please, stop! I cannot hold it in any longer!
After all these years I still can't keep a straight face when they talk about Biggus Dickus. OMG!
He has a wife you know!
Incontinentia...INCONTINENTIA BUTTOCKS!
Think about the actors playing the guards, they got told that if they smiled or laughed out loud they would lose their pay. And they din't get told the jokes before hand.
Great sketches. I cry with laughter. I was nearly asleep in bed.....And just burst out laughing. The old ones are the best.
"The little wascal has spiwit."
"Has what sir?"
"Spiwit."
"Yes, he did sir. "
"No no... Spiwit, uh... Bwavado, a touch of dewwing do."
"Oh, uh, about eleven sir."
Love that little exchange :p
Explain the 11 part
@@vkeshav3519 the centurion has no idea what hes saying
so he just answers randomly.
Like when someone says gibberish and I just respond, ugh yes sir
ShokaLion
Who knew Elmer Fudd’s ancestor was Woman Woyalty?
That look Pilate gives him at the end of that exchange. Priceless.
@@GeneralOlde i.imgur.com/6sdrR0y.jpg 😂
"Throw him to the floor" - Such a subtle yet brilliant bit
Cleese and palin are unbelievable together. How they got through this I don’t know it never ages brilliant!!!!
"Oh, and uh--throw him to the floor sir?'
"What?"
"Throw him to the floor again sir?"
"Oh yes, throw him to the floor please."
That part always cracks me up--ha ha.
DiGiTaLdAzEDM That's my favorite part too lol
The way he says “ Oh yes” ...just the best.
It's so unnecessary, lol
This centurion catches on 😂
That's the reason I came to this scene. I rewatched the movie last week and I had to see the "throw him to the floor" scenes a few more times.
The little Wascal has Spiwwit
Michael Palin's performance was absolutely perfect.
@Joe Average About 11;00
has what sir...?
"Stwike him, centuwion, and vewy woughwy!"
""Oh, about eleven, Sir!""
Michael Palin is absolutely brilliant in this sketch.
That look Pilate gives the centurion when they're getting their wires crossed that says "What the fuck are you talking about?"
What is you're name?
-Brian
Oh Bwian
-No, Brian *smack* Lmao
I may know the words to this film of by heart but i havent seen this film in a long time and its cracking me up xD
Years ago, at sea....I'd keep the 3rd mate company on the Bridge: We'd stand in each corner of the wheelhouse and recite verbatim the lines of the various scenes. After one such side splitting session, a voice from the chartroom said:
"Are you two completely mad!" It was the Captain who, unfortunately, had not seen the film!
Couldn't agree more!! Love this movie.
i watch this every day and still laugh every time
Why take people to prison when you can just throw them to floor a couple times
*thwow
and also slap them
@@jietroraximoff2805 *stwike! ;P
@@emilyrln Vewwy woughly!
Give them the cumfy chair.
"Can I go now sir?"
The best line of the scene
Absolutely Brilliant..
‘Naughtius Macimux’..
‘I think it’s a joke sir... like sillius soddus or Biggus Dikkus sir’
‘He has a wife you know... she is called Incontinentia ..’
Michael Palin should have got an Oscar for just keeping a straight face..
I love 1:25 how John explodes but so suddenly contains himself when he sees Pontius. 😂
“I want him fighting wabbid wild animals within a week!”
Every time I see this segment again, I find it funnier. Superb comedy!
the English captions are really entertaining... "strike him send joy and very lovely" 🤣
"Throw him to the floor sir?" LOL..absolute gold
Funniest Monty pyton scene ever. " when i say the naaaaaame " Biggus Dikuss"
Haha poor soldier - god himself would be laughing his ass off "
I think this is the funniest scene in history of film aaaaaaand probably in history of mankind.
This is human creation at its very highest.
I love the part:
"And throw him to the floor again sir?"
"Oh yes, throw him to the floor please"
Michael Palins character isn't Caesar, It Pontius Pilate.
@Greg Moonen , , , but his Friends call him "" Wodger ""
He's still a vewy bwutal and wuthless chawacter to tweat poor Bwian so woughly.
he was wery wough with the womans.
@Greg Moonen A Japanese would say Pontius Pirate.
@tottoroo Wally
One of the funniest scenes ever!
Quite simply! The funniest movie ever made😂😂😂
And this scene is the most hilarious scene in the history of the films ever
RIP Terrias Jonas
You truly are the man, Brian
1:26 I love that heaved laugh lol.
You can tell he’s not allowed to laugh very often 😂
My stomach and neck hurt from laughing....I haven't got a dry sleeve. Who cares ?. Brilliant comedy.
Best set of CZcams comments I've ever seen... I laughed almost as much reading them as I did watching the clip!
How can they not laugh!!!😅😅
Naughtius Maximus!
About eleven sir!
"So! Your father was a woman!"
Kylie Jenner: "....."
Spiwit, bwavado, a touch of dewwing do.
Martin Kooistra
Oh, uh, about 11, sir!!
Funny as hell!
this is fantastic.
He has a wife you know..........................the centurians face is a picture he knows that something is coming
"Commander of the Cwack Legion!"
Palin is fweaking hiwarious.
I want him fighting rabid wild animals within a week!
spirit...euh...bravado...a touch of daring-o
oh! about eleven sir
f*cking genius!😂
and still centurion guard is the funniest joke of this movie
Can see at 3:00 Michael Palin is also trying not to laugh when he's nose to nose with the soldier.
Must have difficult to film that scene.
The solders should have had Oscars !
I turned on the caption and it just said "your father was a woman" at 1:14 im dying of laughter rn
my favorite scene
Mine too. I can't believe something like this could be made
I found this scene very wisible
*giggle*
Incontinentia buttocks
Next time I play skyrim I'm going to be an imperial named biggie dickus
It's just so funny.
1:14 "your father was a Woman"- I don't know how they could miss such great opportunity for a joke
Just like how you cannot complete a full sentence
That was part of the joke when Brian corrects him they just didn't spell it out for us
You know to someone like me, who has a speech impediment, this could be mean......But i find it fucking amazing!
ok stwarbewy scweam wwon sewen nine
I remember when Bill Murray said that he considered SCTV right up there with Saturday Night Live and Monty Python....uh, one of those three should not be mentioned in the same breath as the other two.....here's a hint: I'm talking about Saturday Night Live.
Just too much. Monte Python meets Carryon Laughing.
PepeLaugh :sweat_drops: OH NO NO NO
i watched this to see what the original was after the modern warfare 3 joke with this video :P
I have a distant friend in Rome called Biggus Dickus!!
vewy gweat fwiend...
This is true i had a friend in school years ago and his name was Myles long
@CrazyWolf99 I have absolutely no idea! That's the idea though, it's supposed to be very random.
no no, Brian
your welcome
Silence!
*snicker*
biggus diggus 😂😂😂😂😂 He has a wife you know..
dickus***
*smack*
In addition to everything else about this scene, I love the early part where John Cleese can't understand the question, so just answers randomly. It's what I do when someone has a terrible accent that I can't understand even after asking them to repeat themselves a few times. Hopefully they get the point and stop talking to me.
Scottish people.
He's not answering randomly, he's just making his best approximation of what Pontius said, and trying to answer accordingly. For instance, his reply of "yes sir...i think about 11" was because he guessed that pontius was asking if it was "nearing noon"?, rather than saying "Derring do".
Is it strange how the only thing I keep quoting from this scene is this(0:53)?
Me too! throw him to the floor sir? “OH yes! Throw him to the floor again”
Well, it's a joke name, sir
@Jakeb0y Caesar is not a name it stands for emperor and all emperors called themself Caesar as a matter
I watched this scene many times and just noticed a small continuity mistake. @3:44 Brian starts his escape on the wide shot and then starts his escape again on his closeup … i guess they had the perfect take they had to use.
Funnist python movie ever Pway it again centuwian LMFAO
That's not Caesar. That's Pontius Pilate
It's a joke name, like Sillius Soddus, or Biggus Dickus
Spewit!
No, no, spiwit! Bavahdo, a toush of derring-do!
The fact that John "Hails Cesar" does not make this Cesar. It is actually Pontius Pilate. The full detail of the film and the proof that ‘Life of Brian’ is the most accurate Biblical film ever made, is in this new book ‘The Life of (Brian) Jesus’ available from Amazon
“Great stuff. Lots of blasphemies” Terry Gilliam
“A mischievous journey of discovery” Terry Jones
“My lawyers are reading a copy, and rather enjoying it” Michael Palin
If you want to see another funny "Hail Caesar" skit, search for Mitchell & Webb 3rd person Caesar.
Cesar was a title not a name, in rome
Ha ha 😂
The Reno Rapscallions owned by Biggus Dickus...
I think they got some of these names from the frankie Howard tv series up Pompey
The Jesus's would laugh at Invaders. 😂
I assume I'm not the first person to make this point, but Palin isn't portraying Caesar, it's Pontius Pilate.
XD XD
It is indeed wordplay. Pilate is saying, normally, the following:
"The little rascal has spirit!"
"Has what sir?"
"Spirit."
"Yes he did sir." < That there is the first joke. That's an inappropriate response to what Pilate said. He should have said "Yes he does." Therefore the audience gets the impression that Centurion isn't fully understanding him.
no shit sherlock
Who's Cesar? " I have a very good friend in Wome called Bate, he has a son you know "
oh yes, fwow him to the fwoow pwease
it sounds better translated in german, but the english version is very funny too, look the centurio who always must slap brian has got x-formed legs...and he is telling cesar "bigus digus" is a joke name... :)
What is the German translation?
It’s not Cesar it’s Pontius Pilate btw.
Bwoh your noses and seize him
@Klistern2 lol
Really? What's wrong with the name Biggus Dickus?
He has a wife you know. . . . .
What was the wife’s name, Incontinentia what.....?
"No no... Spirit, uh, Bravado, a touch of derring-do."
"Oh. Uh, about eleven sir." < The second part of the joke, Once again, Centurion hasn't a clue what Pilate has said, or has heard something entirely different to what we, the audience have heard. Centurion's response should have been something like, "Oh I see, sir." or you know something like that.
Totally destroyed the joke by explaining it, apologies folks. =P
Hope that helps anyway.
Must have it in Russian today 😱🤣🤣
a woman?!
No, no. ROMAN.
That is exactly one joke i don't get. As I'm German, I'm used to the german version and Pilate's speech impediment there is a different one. So I don't get the joke in this scene. Is it a kind of wordplay as well? Would be very nice if somebody could help me :)
It's kind of just 2 jokes in one. The impediment doesn't strictly require the Biggus Dickus bit, but it's just a roman related joke. So you could have two scenes, one with a roman emperor with a speech impediment saying things like "thwow him to the fwoow" which is quite funny, and another scene of an emperor talking about his friend biggus, and they'd both be funny but they're funnier together, I think.
As for word play its just the simple stuff you probably noticed:
Biggus dickus - big d**k
Naughtius maximus- Naughty (and then I think maximus was a common name so its a play on maximum I guess)
Incontinentia Buttox - Incontinence butt
Sillius soddus - silly sod
So nothing more fancy than that. I think that's part of why it's so funny - it very barely makes sense to begin with, and only gets more silly as it goes on. :)
this is so good..