The best movie line ever

...and it's from Monty Python

A joke from Monty Python's Life Of Brian has been voted the funniest ever line from a movie .

The line "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" topped the poll by BOL.com.

Terry Jones, who delivers the line as Brian's mother, Mandy, said: The Messiah line was performed to an audience of Tunisian women, and they didn't think it was funny at all.

"So frankly the poll comes as a bit of relief after all these years of uncertainty."

It's one of three lines from the film to make the top ten:

 

The top ten

1: "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" - Monty Python's Life Of Brian

2: "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job

3: "Yeah. baby" - Austin Powers, International Man Of Mystery

4: "Well, nobody's perfect" - Some Like It Hot

5: "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" - Airplane

6: "Infamy,infamy. They've all got it in for me." - Carry On Cleo

7=: "We want the finest wines available to humanilty. We want them here, and we want them now." - Withnail and I

7=: "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" - Monty Python's Life Of Brian

9: "I'll have what she's having." - When Harry Met Sally.

10: "I'lm Brian, and so is my wife." - Monty Python's Life Of Brian

The poll also asked for the top 10 TV lines

 

Published: 15 Feb 2002

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