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| Topic Started: Monday, 27. October 2008, 15:48 (1,055 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 00:56 Post #31 |
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Have you heard Brand, he is funny, and quite intelligent as is Ross. They reach a certain audience, and Ross is an excellent film critic. The BBC is more than songs of praise and garden shows, it has to reach a cross section of society. And yes, fringe comedy that offends is very funny.
I dont always agree with some of their comments, however, they are funny as they are not PC, and are very good at the routines and jokes etc. Like little Britain. Besides, I believe in free speech, and the right to offend. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 00:58 Post #32 |
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I meant listen, but can watch on youtube. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 01:00 Post #33 |
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Exactly, so why are some snobby people trying to get Ross sacked, and make Brand resign, after all, they cant always get what they want. A great comedian has left the BBC, what a shame! Their comedy is artistic. Would you ban the statue of David or naked paintings or nude photos (art and lust)? |
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| pat | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 01:19 Post #34 |
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I didn't hear the show, and their antics sounded very childish and stupid from the reports I read of what they said, but the campaign against them in the media is way over the top. Thousands of complaints have been made by people who never even heard the show (how can you complain about something that you didn't even witness? Who apart from Andrew Sachs, and maybe his granddaughter has the right to be so upset?) The only one with any dignity in this episode is Andrew Sachs, who has received apologies. I was appalled on behalf of his granddaughter, who, I was led to believe by the Daily Mail (ha!) was some virginal teenager, until I found out she is an "aspiring model" who dances with a group called the Satanic Sluts, and is so "devastated" (her word) that she has sold her story to the Sun. there's a war going on in Congo, but that doesn't matter to the tabloids, because none of those victims are burlesque dancers. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 01:45 Post #35 |
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Exactly, yet few dare mention these issues. The Sun has paid her quite a bit, which is why all interviews have the sun logo, she is profiting of her grandads misery. |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 01:47 Post #36 |
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If that is so, she gets no sympathy from me. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 02:03 Post #37 |
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Yep, and the satanic thing is true too! http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/30/russell-brand-ross-baillie-sachs |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 03:11 Post #38 |
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You say it is your generation and younger who want and like more hard hitting programmes and comedy. Age has nothing to do with it.
Are the middle classes elite? Are they all of snobs? What exactly defines a person as middle class?
Presumably the locations of complainants are identified by Postal or STD codes, which give no indication of income or capital. Not every person in middle England is "middle class". Somebody empties the bins, cleans toilets, works on the shop floor, fills shelves. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 03:15 Post #39 |
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Yes, my generation and younger do want and like more hard hitting programmes and comedy, however, that doesnt mean the older generations do not like such comedy.
Middle England is a political term used by some to describe the Middle Class |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 03:26 Post #40 |
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some of whom are as rough as sandpaper. Well, that depends upon whether class is determined by money. |
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| Clare | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 10:51 Post #41 |
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No. There's no comparison. Their "comedy" is not artistic. It is puerile and juvenile. |
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| Clare | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 10:55 Post #42 |
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It's a case of the last straw, I think. A straw isn't much in itself, but perhaps people are just fed up with their intelligence being insulted. They should have complained decades ago about the way things were going, and then none of this would have happened. A clear case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. |
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| Clare | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 10:57 Post #43 |
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I don't sympathise with her either. As soon as I saw her picture and read about what she does, it put things in a different light. But Ross and Brand were cruel to Andrew Sachs, and it was just nasty. It being "art" does not make it all right. |
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| Clare | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 11:08 Post #44 |
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You've heard of the Trojan horse, haven't you, Joseph? Being funny and intelligent, and a good film critic, does not give one the right to sin publicly (and obscenity is sinful) and encourage others to do so. Don't let talent be a Trojan horse. Sacha Baron Cohen is also talented and clever. Does that give him the right to humiliate and exploit a whole community, as Borat did? I once quite liked Jonathan Ross, before fame went to his head. His old Channel 4 shows were quite good. Perhaps he's going through a midlife crisis now. We should pray for Ross and Brand.
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| K.T.B. | Thursday, 30. October 2008, 11:32 Post #45 |
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I've always thought that the Borat charicature is racist.
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