Woke madness as iconic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail hit with bad language & rude humour warnings

Scottish Sun

25-04-2025

THE HOLY FAIL Woke madness as iconic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail hit with bad language & rude humour warnings
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BRITISH classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail has been slapped with trigger warnings ahead of its 50th anniversary re-release - alerting fans to 'bad language' including 'bum, tit, and Christ'.
The film, considered one of the greatest comedies of all time, has become the latest to be hit with cautions about 'discriminatory language' and 'rude humour'.
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Rated a 12A, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has flagged the word 'pansy', and warned: 'There are passing references to genitals, and animations showing men holding trumpets in their bottoms.'
Moderate 'bad language' includes 'tit, tart, bint, git and God' and the 'brief aftermath' of sword fights result in the 'sight of blood'.
It comes as the movie is being aired in cinemas to mark 50 years since it was first released in 1975.
Monty Python stars Michael Palin and John Cleese have previously blasted 'silly' woke culture.
Award-winning actor Palin, 81, who was knighted in 2019, hit back at comments by BBC comedy commissioner Shane Allen that Monty Python 'wouldn't be six Oxbridge white blokes' if the comedy troupe were cast today.
Palin said: 'It's been 50 years. Talk about beating us up when we're down.
'He was obviously manoeuvred into saying something silly.'
He added that new shows have to be 'checked for political correctness' and 'diversity'.
Co-star John Cleese, 85, previously slammed woke culture for having a 'disastrous' effect on comedy.
The veteran funnyman said comedians are too worried about offending people with jokes, resulting in the 'death of creativity'.
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Cleese said: 'I think it's particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom, where you're not checking everything you say critically before you move on.
'If you're worried about offending people and constantly thinking of that, you are not going to be very creative, so I think it has a disastrous effect.'
A string of British classics have recently been hit with trigger warnings, including Doctor Who and even the Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme.
The BBFC has been contacted for comment.