For example, the “Silly Olympics” sketch (see script, right) includes a gag about the inability of the competitors to hear the starting pistol in a race for the deaf. Then there’s the scene in which Chapman (who in real life was gay) lists the rules of the philosophy department at the University of Woolloomooloo: “Rule 1 — No poofters; Rule 2 — No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way whatsoever (if there’s anyone watching); Rule 3 — No poofters; Rule 4 — I don’t want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out; Rule 5 — No poofters; Rule 6 — No rule 6; Rule 7 — No poofters.” The greatest controversies, however, attached to the Pythons’ last two films, The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.