How goes the old line history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce.
We appreciate the sentiment but we think he got it backwards.
The oh so serious story of Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn was lifted from a story line in the life of Biran.
“FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But… you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I– I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.”
Back in 1979 it was pretty funny because reality and absurdity were clearly defined.
We don’t think Monty Python would play well now.
Stan/Loretta would no longer be funny but courageous.
The Norwegian Blue Parrot would be dead but self identify as alive or black as the nut job from Spokane has done.
We used to laughed so hard with Monty Python we cried.
Now we just cry.