Monty Python's Life of Brian Drinking Game Rules
Turn Monty Python’s Life of Brian into a drinking game and let the jokes set the pace. This 1979 comedy stacks quick quotes, crowd chaos, and Roman nonsense into a tight 94 minutes. You get nonstop wordplay from Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Michael Palin, plus scenes that swing from political bickering to full-on mass hysteria.
Play along as Brian stumbles into the worst kind of fame. Keep your drink ready for chants, mix-ups, and every time Judea’s “serious” revolution falls apart. The big set pieces land even harder when you celebrate the most famous lines, the Latin wall lesson, and that final singalong.
Monty Python's Life of Brian Drinking Game Rules:
- Take a sip when anyone says “Brian” or calls him “Brian of Nazareth”
- Take a sip when the crowd calls Brian “the Messiah” or “a prophet”
- Drink when someone mentions the Romans, Caesar, or Roman rule
- Take a sip when a resistance group name is said (People’s Front of Judea, Judean People’s Front, or similar)
- Drink when someone yells “Splitter!”
- Take a sip when a scene turns into a chant, slogan, or crowd repeat-after-me moment
- Drink when the film cuts to Pilate, his guards, or a Roman official doing “serious” business
- Drink when Pilate’s speech issues break the room, or soldiers struggle not to laugh
- Drink when “Biggus Dickus” is said
- Drink when the centurion forces Brian to correct the Latin graffiti (the “Romani ite domum” lesson)
- Take a sip when someone gives a straight-faced lecture about what a messiah is or is not
- Drink when Brian tries to escape through a window, a rooftop, or a tight alley and the chase keeps going
- Drink when the sandal, gourd, shoe, or “sign” argument breaks out in the crowd
- Take a sip when anyone takes a line from Brian and turns it into a rule for everyone else
- Drink when “Jehovah” is said during the stoning scene
- Finish your drink when “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” starts, and the crucifixion singalong takes over
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About the Movie
- Title
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Released
- 17 Aug 1979
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genre
- Comedy
- Plot
- The story of Brian of Nazareth (Graham Chapman), born on the same day as Jesus of Nazareth, who takes a different path in life that leads to the same conclusion. Brian joins a political resistance movement aiming to get the Romans out of Judea. Brian scores a victory of sorts when he manages to paint political slogans on an entire wall in the city of Jerusalem. The movement is not very effective but somehow Brian becomes a prophet and gathers his own following. His fate is sealed however and he lives a very short life.
- Language
- English, Latin
