Best comedy is often very resourceful when there aren't many resources around, like stand up. If you're being silly, then if something looks cheap or fake, just make that the joke. There's some sort of magic in that, when you've got no special effects,. and you can use that to your advantage to create a funny contrast. In a life of brian, i think i had a bigger budget, the location was a lot more realistic. But er if he'd arrived on a horse, it's not funnyThat opening gag is one of the best gags in the film. We're literally bits of tape with loops on e, so there's something to be said