I'm just looking forward to the original sketch being removed.
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Quote: Badge @ February 19, 2008, 11:00 PMI'm just looking forward to the original sketch being removed.
You'll be using the Hubble Telescope, then?
To be quite honest, I know there's a good response to smut on here but a real comedien doesn't need it...as in Ken Dodd. If one has to resort to smut to make others laugh, I find that, that is not clever/funny at all. There is more skill in making others laugh without any smut whatsoever.
Quote: bushbaby @ February 20, 2008, 7:09 PMTo be quite honest, I know there's a good response to smut on here but a real comedien doesn't need it...as in Ken Dodd. If one has to resort to smut to make others laugh, I find that, that is not clever/funny at all. There is more skill in making others laugh without any smut whatsoever.
I totally agree, BB.
The sketch is, in fact, a satire on the long-standing and ignoble tradition of making the lower orders laugh simply by referring to sex and bodily functions in an otherwise non-comedic or very-weakly-comedic context.
You mean like Bo Selecta?
Quote: Winterlight @ February 20, 2008, 7:46 PMYou mean like Bo Selecta?
Cha'mone, motherf**ker!
Knock knock?
Who's bastard twatting there?
Dr
Dr f**king c**t face shit breath who?
Big improvement I'm sure you'll agree?
Quote: ian_w @ February 20, 2008, 7:53 PMKnock knock?
Who's bastard twatting there?
Dr
Dr f**king c**t face shit breath who?Big improvement I'm sure you'll agree?
I like it, but I'd have:
MAN 1:
Knock knock?
MAN 2:
Who's bastard twatting there?
MAN 1:
Doctor
MAN 2:
Doctor bastard twatting c**t face who?
BOTH MEN DO THE TRADITIONAL FEW TAP STEPS AND LEAN FORWARD, EXTENDING ONE ARM WITH OPEN PALM TO THE AUDIENCE IN A GESTURE OF 'FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT'
ENTER BASIL BRUSH, CLOSE TO CAMERA
BASIL:
Boom - bastard twatting c**t face - Boom!
yeah, right, well, none of you are going anywhere....trust me
You know Shakespeare's plays are full of obscene sex jokes, the Bible has some very identifiable sex, and bodily function jokes. Same for Hogarth, Gilray, and many early Greek writers. Tropic of Capricorn, and 1984 all are redolent with earthy, pungent wit. A good comic finds humour every where, and every thing, humour that's applicable to all. Ben Elton swung from the Young Ones, to the Thin Blue Line picking and discarding course and fine material as he went. Bush poo is funny, sex is funny, masturbation is funny, if not to you, then to a great many others. As is satire, absurdity, and embarrassed Vicars. I like to think all these things humorous, and many others as well. There is no such thing as a defacto bad or obscene joke. Personally I find racism obscene, hypocrisy, and misogynies. Obscenity and humour are two of the most individual things about all of us. It's sad that you apply your narrow visions to us all.
Quote: FoxyBox @ February 20, 2008, 7:41 PMI totally agree, BB.
The sketch is, in fact, a satire on the long-standing and ignoble tradition of making the lower orders laugh simply by referring to sex and bodily functions in an otherwise non-comedic or very-weakly-comedic context.
Usually, if you have to explain it, it wasn't any good.
Quote: bushbaby @ February 20, 2008, 7:09 PMTo be quite honest, I know there's a good response to smut on here but a real comedien doesn't need it...as in Ken Dodd. If one has to resort to smut to make others laugh, I find that, that is not clever/funny at all. There is more skill in making others laugh without any smut whatsoever.
n.b. Ken Dodd, that's your shining hero of smut free comedy? Harry Hill, Joyce Grenfell, Ronnie Corbett, Morcame and Wise, Woody Allen, all clean all people I would be aspire to be 1% of one of their comedic toe nails. But Ken Dodd the aged, witless, tax dodger, there's one cell organisms living in the perma frost of Mars that are funnier.
Quote: sootyj @ February 20, 2008, 11:39 PMn.b. Ken Dodd . . . there's one cell organisms living in the perma frost of Mars that are funnier.
SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISM:
By Jove Missus! What a day . . . what a day for ramming a cucumber through Bushbaby's letterbox and shouting "Look out, BB! The Martians are coming!"
That maybe funnier than anything the big haired, humour dodger ever wrote.