I cannot believe that in 2008 one of my own favourite comedic films is still banned! In fact I am surprised that it was ever banned in the first place! I am talking about Monty Python's Life Of Brian, and in one of those odd quirks of fate the mayor of Aberystwyth, who just happened to have been featured in film, wants the town's near-30 year ban on the film finally lifted.

Mayor Sue Jones-Davies (centre) with the Monty Python team on the film's set

Here is a snippet from the BBC:

She's not the messiah, she's the mayor of Aberystwyth and she has a plan.

Sue Jones-Davies is trying to overturn a near 30-year ban imposed by the town on Monty Python's Life of Brian - the film in which she played a role.

Long before she donned her mayoral robes in the mid Wales town, she played Brian's girlfriend in the movie.

Opponents claimed it made fun of Jesus, but she says it is "amazing" that a town like hers still officially bars a movie now regarded as a comedy classic.

In 1979, however, it grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons, with critics accusing the Python team of blasphemy with its story about a Jewish man who was mistaken for the messiah and then crucified.

Some religious groups picketed cinemas which screened the film.

Full article here

I hope she has the ban lifted.......at this point it is just silly in my opinion.