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In a ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'' sketch, a bishop who has made a scandalous film called ''The Life of Christ'' is hauled over the coals by a representative of the "Church of Python", claiming that the film is an attack on "Our Lord, John Cleese" and on the members of Python, who, in the sketch, are the objects of Britain's true religious faith. This was a parody of the infamous ''Friday Night, Saturday Morning'' programme, broadcast a week previously. The director of the film (played by [[Rowan Atkinson]]) claims that the reaction to the film has surprised him, as he "didn't expect the [[The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)|Spanish Inquisition]]."

Radio host John Williams of Chicago's WGN 720 AM has used "[[Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]" in a segment of his Friday shows. The segment is used to highlight good events from the past week in listeners' lives and to generally celebrate the end of the [[work week]]. In the 1997 Oscar -winning film ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'', the misanthropic character played by [[Jack Nicholson]] sings "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" as evidence of the character's change in attitude.<ref>{{cite book |first=Monica Silveira |last=Cyrino |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=32gPTvDhLAMC&pg=PA187&dq=always+look+on+the+bright+side+of+life&hl=en&ei=MVXzTPScDIGEhQft7ujwCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=always%20look%20on%20the%20bright%20side%20of%20life&f=false |title=Big Screen Rome |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |date=2 December 2005}}</ref>

A BBC history series ''[[What the Romans Did for Us]]'', written and presented by [[Adam Hart-Davis]] and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question "What have the Romans ever done for us?" in one of the film's scenes. (Cleese himself parodied this line in a 1986 BBC advert defending the [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom|Television Licence Fee]]: "What has the BBC ever given us?")<ref>{{YouTube|fEJGRNrbmNc}}</ref>