The ultimate taboo? Page 8

Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 2:30 PM GMT

What worries me about the Holly gag was that it was never proved that Huntley had done anything sexual with his victims. He may well have just killed them, with no sexual element to the crime whatsoever.

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Poor guy, hideously murders two children to spite his girlfriend and now every one thinks he's a perv.

I may send him a card.

Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 2:32 PM GMT

I didn't say a comedian shouldn't do a joke because you THINK that SOME people MIGHT find it offensive.

It's probably unwise to do a joke if you KNOW that MOST people you are telling it to WILL DEFINITELY find it offensive.

Unless "having the right to say what you want" is more important than "making your audience laugh". But hey, as I also said, it's your choice as a writer or performer what material to use. You just need to find the audience that likes what you do.

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Hasn't Micheal Jackson been performing for Prince Jeffrey of Bruni exclusively for the last 2 years?

Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 1:55 PM GMT

Aaron also finds Coming of Age funny.

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Considering the joke in question, you could not have picked a more aptly named show.

Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 2:30 PM GMT

He may well have just killed them, with no sexual element to the crime whatsoever.

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You sound dissapointed Chip!

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 2:03 PM GMT

And some people like torturing animals. Guess it just means they have different hobbies to me.

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Correct.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 19 2008, 2:37 PM GMT

You sound dissapointed Chip!

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Am I so transparent?

Quote: zooo @ November 19 2008, 2:29 PM GMT

Basically there's a point some people seem to get and some don't.

If (say) Frankie Boyle told a joke about Baby P, I would be perfectly secure in the knowledge that he does not find the fact that a baby has died funny. He finds the joke funny.

Some people can't see that difference. It's not a good or bad thing, I'm just trying to point it out. And probably making a bad job of it.

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I just don't think he would use that subject matter. Maybe a subject surrounding the case, but not directly about the child itself. Has he ever done any nasty gags before? (I don't include mocking the Queen. He's allowed to as a Scotsman.)

Quote: zooo @ November 19 2008, 2:09 PM GMT

I beat old ladies.
Is that so wrong?

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Only if they don't cum. Otherwise that's just teasing.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 2:38 PM GMT

I just don't think he would use that subject matter. Maybe a subject surrounding the case, but not directly about the child itself. Has he ever done any nasty gags before? (I don't include mocking the Queen. He's allowed to as a Scotsman.)

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He does nastier stuff, I believe, in his stand up (and in jokes that have to be cut from TV.)

Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 2:13 PM GMT

You might choose to ignore that, for example if you don't give a f**k about other people.

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The name 'Baby P' is really annoying me. Couldn't they have made up a whole name, if they weren't allowed to use his?

And why is it okay for them to plaster his face all over the papers now, but not use his name? I'm confused. (it doesn't take much.)

Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 2:40 PM GMT

Yep, because when people disagree with you, it's because they don't understand.

zooo you have disappointed me.

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I even went to the trouble to say 'it's not a good or a bad thing' just so I didn't sound patronising.
Guess it didn't work.

I agree they should have changed his name, it sounds like baby pee.

What name would you choose?

howz about.

Zap Rowsdower.

He's Canada's Indiana Jones.

I saw that picture of him with the cuts on the front of a paper today and it upset me.

They could have called him something catchy like This Week's Dead Baby That We're All Going To Pretend To Care About.

(That's the papers not you lot.)

Harsh but fair Zooo, albeit your satire is even more sledgehammer then mine.

I was going to go for Baby Bush.

As I wish to chnage my name to Zap Rowsdower.