For me, humour can overcome certain political views if it’s funny enough.
The assumption that everyone will automatically agree is still irritating , but I can put that aside if there’s a good laugh in there.
Did anyone see how miffed that Mark Steel fellow was when Ian Hislop called him a Stalinist on HIGNFY ? He was definitely bovvered.
The thing I’m not so sure about is the stupid Anne Frank joke from the ubiquitous David Mitchell who I usually quite like. His attempted joke drew a complaint on Feedback which was briefly and peremptorily dealt with, below several letters praising other programmes.
He thought an amusing example of something very ridiculous was the idea that someone whose need to keep quiet was a matter of life or death – would ask for a drum kit. Ha very ha.
The fact that we all know Anne Frank’s terrible fate makes this not one of the occasions where the humor justifies the content.
Of all the leftist “comedians” who earn their living courtesy of a neverending supply of spots on BBC programmes, I dislike Steel the most. Not sure why. Perhaps just because he is desperately, desperately unfunny. I’m glad to hear that Hislop ruffled Mark Spart.
WHILE WE ALL DRIVE OURSELVES ROUND THE BEND EXPOSING THE OBVIOUS ENGRANED LEFT WING BIAS THAT PERMUATES THRUGHOUT THE B.B.C . ITS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THE INCOMING CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT . STILL BACKS THE THREE THOUSAND MILLION POUND TV POLL TAX . AND ITS GOOD TO KNOW JONATHON ROSS AND HIS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS PER WEEK TAX HANDOUT HAS BEEN GIVEN THE FULL APPPROVAL OF JEREMY HUNT . THIS MEANS JONATHON CAN RELAX WITH HIS CIGAR IN HAND {MAYBE LIGHT ONE WITH A FIFTY POUND NOTE } FEET UP ORGANISE HIS ANNUAL HALOWEEN PARTY AS WE SEEN YESTERDAY WITH B.B.C JACK DEE . B.B.C DARA O’BRIEN AND HIS CLIQUE OF LEFTY CHAMPAGNE SOCIALITS BROWN NOSERS YET THE CONSERVATIVES ARE ALLOWING THIS TO CONITINUE WHY ?
Because Cameron is not a Conservative. Just another seeker after power. A continuation of the NewLabour project by other means
too soon?
I don’t really see how this is relevant to bias – you disliked a joke, wow
Mark Steel is actually a very thick guy. I’ve written that on here before and he has nothing of wit to say plus he is a complete academic failure. Some of the lefties that the BBC have institutionalised do display turns of wit, but not Steel: he is a genuine thicko.
No, it exposed a joke someone didn’t like
I have no idea whether Mark Steel is “thick” or a genius or somewhere inbetween and I don’t really care. What I do care about is the fact that this sneery Trotskist comedian is paid out of my licence fee. I blogged about this week’s HIGNFY – http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2009/10/finally-someone-does-call-attention-to.html – and have dealt with Mark Steel before (a few years ago) when I pointed out that “Mark Steele is a regular BBC commentator on Radio 5 Live where his political affiliations have never been mentioned (so far as I am aware), despite his being invited to discuss politics on a semi-regular basis. Simone Clarke was denigrated by the media for being a supporter of the BNP a party whose views many would find no more repugnant than those of the SWP.”
lets get this straight . this website exposes the compulsary publicly funded three thousand million pound left wing propoganda machine called the b.b.c that forces the public via govt statute to hand over £142.50 to the said left wing b.b.c to make its left wing tv shows and pay its left wing celebs millions like ross on £125.000 per week . SO WHY IS THE FUTURE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENTS JEREMY HUNT GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THIS THREE BILLION POUND LEFT WING TV POLL TAX THAT GIVES ROSS THREE MILLION POUNDS PER YEAR .
isn’t 125k a week 6 and a half mil per year? or were ya thinking about the new ‘non bbc exclusive’ deal he’s going to have which i don’t know anything about.
yes i agree ross gets paid vastly too much, he really isn’t that good at all, even norton pretty much totally outclasses him and is paid a third as much at most? (still too much, frankly). Watching american chat shows like conan o’brian (who is paid somewhat less than ross presently iirc and once paid the wages of 75 or so of his staff out of his own pocket during a strike) and ross looks like a wank, i mean rank amateur. because he really is. It really puts it into perspective, how the non-competative nature of the bbc has totally skewed the salaries.
but still, ross talk is as boring as ross himself. and i think the BBC is actually a decent idea in principle, it DOES produce some damn good stuff (don’t tell me those nature documentaries aren’t awesome!). Just it’s news department is horrifically bad with bias and mind bogglingly crap journalism, and probably dangerous in how it intentionally misinforms. It’s lefty-urbancastingdepartment-bias clearly has infected much of it’s programming too, obviously.
anyhow.
yes there is a line to be drawn in comedy (mitchells joke was fine, as was boyles about the spoon and that, they are just jokes), as jimmy carr found out insulting the forces is really not a good idea, because as much as we all love our funny men and women, as much as they can make us laugh ourselves senseless, at the end of the day they don’t actually do anything important – we can all make jokes afterall – and our armed forces kinda do.
so in a nutshell this site is a toothless tiger . it explains the obvious inherint left wing lunacy that is in the b.b.c’s d.n.a . its hatred of the conservative party and margaret thatcher . its panorama specials in the 1980’s on the evil brits shoot to kill policy in northern ireland . the rough justice prog giving the case for one of the murderers who attacked the 2 army corporals in 1988. the almost laughable odd couple of brighton bomber patrick magee and his victims stockholm syndrome daughter jo berry on there mutual love in on b.b.c2 in a virtual gold blend esque serial . thrugh all this . the conservative government still says its ok for ross to get his six million pounds of public sector pay . on itv tonight there was a prog on at 8pm that talked about the highest paid public sector employes . the highest wonga award as they called it whent to ch4 kevin lygo on one million plus . but surely the highest public sector handout in britain if not the world must be ross who is trousering six million pounds per year .
(don’t tell me those nature documentaries aren’t awesome!)
They are. Or were. Unfortunately it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find one without some climate change propaganda shoe-horned in.
As has been said, humour can overcome almost anything.
What Mark Steel and his ilk suffer from is that they are not funny. They rely on their hatred of anything not left of centre to get by.
Watching MS getting it up ‘im was marvellous.
It’s a shame that whenever anything critical of the Government comes up, HIGNFY somehow manages to bash Boris.
Someone, somewhere in the BBC must be concerned about something…..
you’re obviously a complete idiot. Have I got news for you attacks Labour on a weekly basis.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6509726/Failure-of-editorial-control-blamed-for-Frankie-Boyles-joke-about-Rebecca-Adlington.html
Failure for editorial control blamed for entire BBC output?