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Newsnight: It Is A Fucking Joke
Richard Herring is on Newsnight talking about the ridiculous Frankie Boyle, Mock the Week, Rebecca Addlington debacle.
Not heard about this? Yeah…The Daily Mail (the same paper that prints homophobic Jan Moir articles) is once again angry about someone making a joke. A joke aired on a repeat of Mock The Week from over a fucking year ago.
Let’s all agree on a rule: If you didn’t get offended the first time round - you’re banned from getting offended the second time!
It seems odd that a newspaper, without a shred or irony, can question the morality of someone saying that another person looks like they’re looking at them in the back of a spoon in jest, whilst printing an article which quite clearly makes homophobic comments about a recently deceased person.
What did we learn from tonight’s comedy standards special?
Paxman loves The Thick Of It! (yeessssss) And that swearing and causing offense is part of the intrinsic make-up of comedy.
Either nothing is funny. Or EVERYTHING is.
I know which was I want it to be.
Lax BBC headlines
Dead girl met man on Internet - How? If she was dead? Surely the real story is about the girl who could use the Internet despite being dead.
Ramsay unveils cosmetic procedure - He’s invented his own form of cosmetic surgery? Do this man’s talents know no bounds
NASA rocket postponed by weather - What is the rocket doing? Launching? NASA launch postponed by weather - make 100 times more sense.
This is from one day. Standards are slipping at the BBC.
Peep Show
Peep Show tonight, 10pm, Channel 4. Sure it’ll be funnier than last week.
Top 5 Peep Show lines.
1. Ah the familiar gut-punch of pain and humiliation, hello old friend
2. I’m not going to do a poo am I Jez?
3. This crack is really more-ish
4. You’re not James Bond Jeremy / I am James Bond
5. I’m not the same as these feckless cum-shedders, so if you ever need me for a…private donation you’ve got my details…umm, biitttt creepy.
Channel 4’s TNT Show? Question Mark?
Boisterous young comedy upstarts Jack Whitehall and Holly Walsh unleash their comedic talent in a weekly late-night topical entertainment show - ADVERTISES CHANNEL 4
Do they now? Do they really Channel 4? Having seen the TNT Show I’d suggest that this sentence alone contains a veritable cacophony of lies.
a) Neither Jack (weird-beard) Whitehall or Holly (might-as-well-be-a-bag-of-grass) Walsh are even remotely boisterous. In fact they’re about as boisterous as a plate - a plate of cold over-boiled pasta.
b) Comedy Upstarts? It becomes apparent five minutes into TNT Show that neither, comedy or “upstarting” are exactly strengths of Whitehall or Walsh.
c) Unleash their comedic talent!? I hope the person who wrote those four words feels sick, sick with shame. I’ve seen more comedic talent in a pack of wafer thin ham.
d) Okay, I grant you, it probably is scheduled weekly, so that’s probably not a lie, although I wish it was a lie. But it certainly isn’t topical or entertaining.
TNT joins a long list of failed live-audience ’yoof’ shows that Channel 4 and The BBC have trialed. Remember “The Wall” with Alexa Chung and that guy out of Star Stories? Woeful wasn’t it?
It seems TV Producers are desperately groping for another epoch-forging hit, in the mold of The Word (or TFI Friday, but with yoofs), the seminal 90s magazine show, fronted by Mark Lamar and Terry Christian.
The problem is, they don’t want it to be too like The Word, because The Word actually was boisterous, too boisterous for today’s TV execs who live in perpetual fear of offending white 60-year-old Daily Mail readers (by Daily Mail readers, I mean morons - closest racist morons). Concurrently, they cast eminently safe, but good-looking, presenters and concurrently, they get shit, shit TV.
I don’t know why Jack Whitehall is being pushed on us, I don’t know who is behind his burgeoning career, but whoever it is doesn’t understand TV or comedy.
Who could do this sort of show? How about Mark Nolan and Olivia Lee? Get them to fake some sexual tension, give them a decent budget and some reasonable guests and I guarantee you’d get something better than TNT and its maelstrom of prop jokes and the appallingly misjudged “Special Reports,” in which a TV crew with varying disabilities and learning difficulties interview someone.
This wasn’t funny. It was supposed to make you laugh at those people being interviewed, as they squirmed as their interviewer with learning difficulties made mistakes. But actually all it does is mock disabled people, suggesting they’re professionally and socially inept. The point of comedy that flouts political correctness is to highlight the stupidity of people who think political correctness doesn’t matter.
If you’re laughing at it because you think it’s putting two fingers up to political correctness you’re laughing at it for the wrong reason, and you’re a twat.
But maybe that’s what it stands for Twats Need Television Show.
