It’s quite extraordinary, given how offensive some of their content is, what the BBC chooses to apologise for. Invite a fascist on flagship programming; proud commitment to free speech. Let a comedian tell a joke about appalling human rights violations; a step too far.
So three cheers for Frankie Boyle for not just objecting, in eloquent [...]
Oh, how I long for a George Carlin, Lenny Bruce or young Chris Rock for today… someone to help us question that which we are too tired to have thought about ourselves. Comedians who do not just satirise and mock the world as they find it, but offered an alternative vision as well. Our current breed, by stark contrast, sneer without care or consistency. The result: a banal hybrid of gaffs about Peter Andre and Jordan, and a reliance on swearing and foul imagery as end in itself, so as to maintain a veneer of being ‘edgy’.
Guest post by Jon Small
The latest character from Sacha Baron Cohen’s entourage of grotesques to hit the big screen is Brüno, the gay-as-a-lamp-post presenter of Austria’s number one fashion show, Funkyzeit. Brüno began life as a minor character in Baron Cohen’s television shows for Paramount Comedy and Channel 4’s Da Ali G Show. As with [...]
