Quote g ... "it seems strange that so many take such a massively strong stance over one issue of comedy going too far"
... can you inform me where it was comical please or at least give me a clue? This was a forty something and a thirty something male using pre-pubescent playground pranks and it says a lot for the people who thought it was funny.
May I ask would you have found it comedy if you had a daughter and it was broadcast to the country that some well known infantile adult had been screwing her?
Somehow I don't think so because that makes her a slapper in everyones eyes but if you were the father of Brand he would have been classed as a Jack the Lad and all would have been fine ;O)
Sadly most TV channels go for shockabilty but the BBC is worse.
There is a play on soon starring Martin Shaw and it's already being put around in the media that it's the most shocking ever. It deals with exorcism, gay sex, murder and a man being skinned alive in a gay sauna.
In Apparitions, directed by Joe Ahearne, Shaw plays Father Jacob, a priest running a Roman Catholic seminary in London.
One of his students, a young gay Italian man called Vimal, is expelled and then seen visiting the sauna in a gay club where he is attacked by a homeless man possessed by a demon.
Viewers are shown the two men fighting naked and flesh being sliced from Vimal's arm before the camera lingers over the ghastly image of blood oozing from his skinned corpse.
Shaw said he realised that Apparitions would be controversial. "The more the better," he said.
"I'm not going to pretend this is the most positive show on Earth. We're talking about the end of all things but the message is that love conquers all.
"It doesn't show a wholly positive message, otherwise it would be Songs Of Praise and people would switch off. It is going out at nine, an acknowledged watershed."
No doubt he is right, it doesn't show a wholly positive message, it's just there to shock and prove that the BBC can beat other channels when it comes to depravity.
LB. The Jeremy vine show, has a good mix of people from different age groups. When this subject got aired at the beginning of the week, it did indeed seem that the vast majority of listeners were up set and mad at this prank.
But then they revealed the split to be 60/40! between those that were angry and those that though mainly people were getting on the band wagon and should get a life.
By the end of the week,and this news still setting the headlines,even though the economy was still being rocked by falling house prices, and massive losses by hedge funds in the stock market, people complaining about those that were still complaining about this radio show had moved to 2/1 against the original complainers!.
Now I have said already that this prank was over the top, but many did find it funny in parts, and you cannot dictate your moral standings to everyone ,nor can I. You have to accept that.
Now you are older than me, so maybe you recall the issues concerning Rock and roll. To the grown ups of that time, it was almost devil worshipping,to the young it was freedom of expression.This could be applied to so many circumstances where the old/mature, disagree with the younger generations,and this radio issue is indeed a good example.
The popular conscientious on here indeed would be it was over the top,in the same way as rock and roll was, because we are older and more mature.
But that does not mean our views are shared by those that actually partake in that radio show, indeed nobody on here who has complained actually listened to it!Nor would they have any idea about what took place had it not been mentioned in one newspaper.
The good thing about being older and mature,is that you usually see through all the hype.
It was in bad taste, but certainly didn't warrant the media hype that has been given to it, there are far more news worthy stories out there, indeed it just goes to show what sort of society we are living in when this incident becomes such a talking point for many hundreds of thousands of normally rational people.
Yes LB it was funny in places.
Now for those who really have how morals why not take a look at the sort of comedy shows on bbc3, the lastist in a long line is gowning up[I thing] buggery is high on the a gender in that teenage show!
It follows on from a long line of sex being the main talking point for comic gags! on comedy shows.
I have not noticed a long line of complaints concerning these shows!and indeed the humour used by the likes of brand is merely an extension of this so called humour.from a vast long list of modern TV shows!that the BBC has been making over the last decade.
So if people were really that interested and concerned,instead of moaning on here, why has the BBC not been inundated repeatedly for these type of programmes they have been doing for the last decade? Well nobody is that famous on those shows,or maybe the media haven't bothered to pick up on it, no there job is to be over dramatic, and use known characters to stir up a media hype.....But us mature people would know that. right.
So
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