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I only liked the Scottish hotel owner with the flute and they got rid of him after the first series. The wheelchair guy is so fething unfunny it makes the sky rain dull, almost as boring as that idiot Tate woman and her 'am I bovvered' skit, it's so fething banal.
For Genius Brit comedy, League of Gentlemen (1st n 2nd series only), Pheonix Nights, Mighty Boosh and the daddy of them all...Alan Partridge.
I did lol pretty hard a few times during that. I love chasers. I see it on TV here in the states occasionally. I like most of their skits. They don't do many unfunny ones. The unfunny ones are usually the ones where they attempt to rely on stupid humor.
And everything is rife for parody and satire no one will ever escape that. Also the princess Diana thing I read earlier in the thread made me lol too. If you find something offensive or if you become 'outraged' change the channel and go take a nice calming dip in a hot tub somewhere. Just keep telling yourself "it's just a joke".
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reds8n wrote:well, the concept I think is quite clever ( several years after Chriss Morris was doing much darker and funnier stuff in Blue Jam i would hasten to add),
Clever? It's fairly obvious and pathetic IMO. Chris Morris is like a whole world above this.
MeanGreenStompa wrote:Little Britain is gak.
I only liked the Scottish hotel owner with the flute and they got rid of him after the first series. The wheelchair guy is so fething unfunny it makes the sky rain dull, almost as boring as that idiot Tate woman and her 'am I bovvered' skit, it's so fething banal.
agreed
MeanGreenStompa wrote:For Genius Brit comedy, League of Gentlemen (1st n 2nd series only), Pheonix Nights, Mighty Boosh and the daddy of them all...Alan Partridge.
There are many others, I'd personally add Father ted and balck books. (i'd take league of gentlemen off it though but thats just personal taste)
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reds8n wrote:well, the concept I think is quite clever ( several years after Chriss Morris was doing much darker and funnier stuff in Blue Jam i would hasten to add),
Clever? It's fairly obvious and pathetic IMO. Chris Morris is like a whole world above this.
Chris Morris was brilliant, Brass Eye was amazing and I still remember all those celebs sucked into doing the warnings.
reds8n wrote:well, the concept I think is quite clever ( several years after Chriss Morris was doing much darker and funnier stuff in Blue Jam i would hasten to add),
Clever? It's fairly obvious and pathetic IMO. Chris Morris is like a whole world above this.
Chris Morris was brilliant, Brass Eye was amazing and I still remember all those celebs sucked into doing the warnings.
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He is. I suppose his brass eye peado mockumentary could be taken badly, but the difference there is he wasn't poking fun at the kids or the child abuse, and instead the media furor around it.
This cwoe example though is just plain balls. If your going to make a gakky joke dont make it about dieing kids.
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reds8n wrote:well, the concept I think is quite clever ( several years after Chriss Morris was doing much darker and funnier stuff in Blue Jam i would hasten to add),
Clever? It's fairly obvious and pathetic IMO. Chris Morris is like a whole world above this.
Currently on the help desk I work on there are a group of us who are involved in ongoing "your mum" jokes. 40,40,40,28,18,21 - the ages of us involved. Yes it is sad and juvenile, but we find it funny. I can't stand soaps or any of the reality shows, but I know that they have a place in other peoples lives. So what one person finds pathetic another will love.
Sorry, dying kids? Do you mean the idea of dying kids or were they actually in a ward where there were dying kids, as that is the important question
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Wolfstan wrote:Life of Brian. Brilliant film... unless you're a religious person
Oh contrare, myself and most Christians/Jews/Muslims I know find it hilarious and feel it highlights the dangers of blind devotion.
That's it. No more religion please. This can be about sick jokes now.
What's more fun than spinning a baby on a clothesline at 200 km/ph?
Stopping it with a shovel.
What do you call an Arab flying a plane?
Spoiler:
A pilot. If you didn't think of this answer, you are a racist.
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He is. I suppose his brass eye peado mockumentary could be taken badly, but the difference there is he wasn't poking fun at the kids or the child abuse, and instead the media furor around it.
This cwoe example though is just plain balls. If your going to make a gakky joke dont make it about dieing kids.
As I mentioned, I worked in child protection, I take those sorts of things very seriously. The brass eye program was hilarious and vicious and attacked the foaming mouthed idiots who did things like firebomb a paediatrician's house and drag their kids through the streets in the middle of the night to alledged sex offenders houses with placards caying things like 'don't touch me'. The scene with the paedo in stocks being shown Morris' son and saying 'I don't fancy him' and Morris taking offence cos it suggested his son wasn't good enough was amazingly funny. It causes furor mainly due to duping an MP into appearing (can't remember who now). I actually think the drugs episode was funnier, especially him 'trying to score' off the dealer on the street.
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Tethesis's reached out his bloodied arm to Altharius's face.
"I..I have one final request"
Altharius leaned close to listen, tears welling in his once bright eyes.
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MeanGreenStompa wrote: Mighty Boosh
I love Mighty Boosh!
Mighty Boosh rules.
As for tasteless humor, it's funny or it's not and it usually has little to do with the subject of the joke. There's little sense in getting all upset about it. Humor is a coping mechanism. Sometimes it's easier to joke about difficult issues.
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BloodofOrks wrote:As for tasteless humor, it's funny or it's not and it usually has little to do with the subject of the joke. There's little sense in getting all upset about it. Humor is a coping mechanism. Sometimes it's easier to joke about difficult issues.
No there's a significant difference in making fun of something and poking fun at it. When you're doing the later to something totally undeserving, aka kids with cancer, don't be surprised if people find your humour tasteless.
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BUT YOU DON'T MAKE FUN OF KIDS DYING OF CANCER ELSE YOU ARE A SON OF A BITCH AND DESERVE A BEATDOWN.
But they weren't making fun of kids with cancer. All of the kids in the sketch were ACTORS. They were pretending to be terminally ill kids.
They were poking fun at Make-A-wish foundation.
You either like Chaser or don't. I thought the dead celebs song was a hoot (even ars*holes turn into nice guys when they're dead.) which only got yanked when they broke into "princess diana ..." (people's princess or not, she DID willingly get into the car with a drunk driver. MVI. She's dead, Get over it.)
Myself, I thought the sketch was funny, but generally find the Chaser's sophomoric humour rather tired and try-hard.
It's like college humour made by high school students.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
As Chromedog said, the sketch was really about taking the piss out of the Make a Wish foundation, rather than terminally ill kids themselves.
Black humour is wonderful invention. But I've noticed that a lot of Americans don't seem quite able to get to grips with it. That's not a blanket statement of course, I'm sure a lot of Americans find it funny, but I've noticed that American humour in general tends to be lacking in sophistication in that department.
But hey. To each his own.
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Putting it on TV was stupid. No good could come of it for anyone involved.
That said, assuming those weren't real cancer-afflicted children in the video, I see no issue with the joke. I though it was a pretty amusing take on the sad-music-and-heartstrings charity ads that are so ubiquitous. But then I don't see any difference between a child with cancer, and an 80 year old with cancer. Death is death.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Ok the above is from the Onion. It's a sketch on the same theme as the Chaser one. A kids bankrupts the Make a Wish Foundation.
From Wikipedia:
It was spoofed in the Family Guy episode If I'm Dying, I'm Lying as the Grant-A-Dream Foundation, where Peter pretends his son is dying in order to get the foundation to bring back a cancelled TV show.
I also remember an episode of Familly guy where a kids makes a wish to meet Spiderman and a fatguy in a bad Spiderman suit turns up.
Heres another joke from the Onion about the subject of a dying child:
To me it was obvious that this skecth was NOT poking fun at disabled children, it clearly was poking fun at stingy charities. You know what, I laughed like hell and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Heres another sketch from the same show
Which is also very funny. It's fairly obvious that close to the knuckle comedy is what these guys trade in, so who was watching who was offended by this? I'm willing to bet that this 'outrage' was entirly media manufactured.
"And if we've learnt anything over the past 1000 mile retreat it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation!"
A lot of the audience were appaerently really pissed off. Cancer is something you don't make fun of over here, probably because we have so many skin cancer deaths.
And normally, I love this show. I'm a bit sensitive about poking fun at sick people. Robot Chicken is great too.
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Ratbarf wrote:You guys would hate Robot chicken if you thought this was over the line.
We get Robot Chicken over here and it doesn’t raise any controversy. In fact, we get all the comedy shows listed here, and hardly any of them have caused complaint. Little Britain used to run on the same channel, same night as The Chaser, but The Chaser was still the one causing controversy.
The Chaser skit got this much of a reaction because of the particular place The Chaser fits into Australian comedy. It has been a very, very funny show, but because it is always pushing the limits it has built up a dedicated following of people that love to complain about the show. There are people who ring up during Chaser to complain every week, during the show to complain about specific bits. They’re actually watching the show just to complain about it, and they do it every week.
The new season started a few weeks ago after a pretty big build up. Most people I know were looking forward to the new season, but a couple of episodes in and the feeling was pretty much the same, ‘the Chaser hasn’t been very funny, has it?’ The complaints were still as common as always, though.
Then last Wednesday, in the middle of a really weak show, they run the skit about Make-a-Wish, and for most people it wasn’t funny. Not necessarily because of the subject matter but because of the way they handled it. In fact, the same skit has been done by other Australian shows before and didn’t cause complaint. But there the focus was on penny pinching in the face of something as grim as a kid dying. The Chaser skit didn’t have that level to it.
There’s probably been more tasteless skits in Australian comedy, but some of those skits were funny, and none of them would have had the profile, audience or dedicated hater base that Chaser has. Something of a perfect storm, ultimately.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
So there are people that watch this show specifically looking for something to be offended by?
Sorry but that's just downright sad and these sort of complaints should be dismissed as the attention seeking nonsense they are.
I suppose its to much to hope for that they crawl back under a rock now they have their pound of flesh. Their bloodlust has probably been fuelled by this farce. Don't complain when it's your favourite show they come after next.
"And if we've learnt anything over the past 1000 mile retreat it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation!"
LuciusAR wrote:So there are people that watch this show specifically looking for something to be offended by?
Sorry but that's just downright sad and these sort of complaints should be dismissed as the attention seeking nonsense they are.
I suppose its to much to hope for that they crawl back under a rock now they have their pound of flesh. Their bloodlust has probably been fuelled by this farce. Don't complain when it's your favourite show they come after next.
Yeah, they're out there and it isn't a Chaser or even an Australian phenomenon. At his peak, a significant portion of Howard Stern's audience tuned in to be outraged.
And for the most part, these people are ignored. They were ignored for a long time when it came to the Chaser, but then the Chaser put out a skit that many found offensive and few found funny.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
I figured this would be horribly offensive from everyone's reactions. Boy was I underwhelmed. I thought it was fairly funny, even though I'm sure my sense of humor is quite inferior to that of most people on this board.
Also, "making fun of children with cancer"? Seriously?
"I want to go to Disney Land!"
"How about you get this pencil case!"
That's not making fun of the kid. The kid's wish was fairly reasonable, the foundation was the one being made fun of.
(I can only assume that there's a very real gap between what the kid's in the Make a Wish Foundation wish for and what the foundation can actually provide them with. That's just the reality of the charity. I saw the sketch as more dark humor accepting that fact than a criticism of the Make a Wish Foundation, but other people may get a different feel from that.)
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Whilst I consider the Chaser has lost its way and is no longer focusing on either Satire or Humour, but rather 'Shocks', I was less than shocked at that skit.
Interestingly enough, earlier in the month, the Make A Wish foundation was in the media, stating that due to the Recession, donations were at an all time low, and they were looking at the uncomfortable position of saying no to dying kids. Very much a 'art imitating life' scenario.
Now, a massive chunk of the Australian population gets upset that the chaser are so 'unfeeling' to dying kids. however, how many of those 'outraged' people have actually put their hands in their pockets to make sure that these sick and dying kids actually dont miss out?
I have donated & I wasnt outraged (I was a bit ashamed at my prior stinginess). I figured I could spend $100 on a couple of DP's, I could throw some cash to the charity.
The joke wasnt on the kids - The joke was on the public.
I won't be judging whether they've lost their touch yet. We've only seen 2 episodes of the new season so far.
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Ah, Chris Morris surely takes the biscuit as far as warped and surreal goes....
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