Revealed: Monty Python scenes that almost never made it

Guards stifling their titters at the name 'Biggus Dickus' and the tradesman who insists Brian haggle for a fake beard were almost dropped from the 1979 movie Life Of Brian, Julian Doyle has revealed. Doyle also worked on the Pythons' 1975 Holy Grail film - and said the three-headed giant scene was thought too slow and the Black Knight sketch so outrageously bloody that it would kill the rest of the film.