British Comedy Guide

Funny but wrong.

As ever on BSG the spectre of humour that may or may not be offensive has risen it's head.
So what do you like that secretly you think maybe, just maybe you should be a little ashamed of. But hell it's so damn funny you just can't help yourself?

Sootyj's list of shame.

1 Love Thy Neighbour. It's not a bad sitcom and was fairly accurate of it's time.
2 Best fest. An incredibly stupid film; blond, aryan, nazi German brewers, that drunken asian rent boy character, He's got the eye of the Jew! But still funny in an utterly crass way.
3 Larry Grayson. I think he's funny so shoot me.
4 Minder and Only Fools and Horses.
5 Bernard Manning. He might have been an almighty racist, hypocrite but no one told a joke better.
6 Benny Hill. Even Ben Elton seems to accept a little old man being chased by women in their underwear to yackety sax is funny.
7 Spike Milligan painted in bisto shouting about curry.

There are others.

I suppose bits of Borat: Cultural-blah-de-blah-de-blah... are incredibly offensive (however ironic they are intended as) but it's ridiculously funny as a film. Except my g/f watched in stony silence as me and my mum pissed ourselves (laughing; we don't have some genetic urinary problems)

Dan

Quote: swerytd @ April 3 2009, 11:21 AM BST

I suppose bits of Borat: Cultural-blah-de-blah-de-blah... are incredibly offensive (however ironic they are intended as) but it's ridiculously funny as a film. Except my g/f watched in stony silence as me and my mum pissed ourselves (laughing; we don't have some genetic urinary problems)

Dan

It must be an Eastern European thing. ;)

I thought it was very funny film and laughed, but felt really uneasy about the people who had been stitched up and used. I thought that wa a bit mean.

Oh I loved Borrat even if it's the wrongest film ever.
Aparently the follow up about Bruno is even more hard core.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 3 2009, 11:23 AM BST

It must be an Eastern European thing. ;)

I thought it was very funny film and laughed, but felt really uneasy about the people who had been stitched up and used. I thought that wa a bit mean.

The village featured in the beginning is suing him for millions.

An interesting thing is some of the scenes not used feature people just telling him to stop being rude and clear off.

Quote: sootyj @ April 3 2009, 11:25 AM BST

Oh I loved Borrat even if it's the wrongest film ever.

That film was dull; didn't work for me at all.

Really? Not even the rodeo scene? Or the dinner party?

Takes all sorts, it did drag a little in the second half.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 3 2009, 11:23 AM BST

It must be an Eastern European thing. ;)

Nyet! Nyet! Perestroika and Glasnost!

Is that what you wanted to hear? Racist!

;)

Dan

Quote: swerytd @ April 3 2009, 11:29 AM BST

Nyet! Nyet! Perestroika and Glasnost!

Is that what you wanted to hear?

Dan

I wanted to hear you were coming to build me an extension for half the price of the firm down the road. :)

I've got nothing against Eastern Europeans. Some of my tenants are Eastern European and I'm quite happy to take their rent. :D

Quote: sootyj @ April 3 2009, 11:27 AM BST

Really? Not even the rodeo scene? Or the dinner party?

Takes all sorts, it did drag a little in the second half.

It was just dull, all the bits went by too fast as well; I actually turned it off half way through. And I really liked the Borat pieces from his TV show.

I don't know what episode it is in, but the bit in the hairdressers in Nighty Night were Linda is on about having worms.

oh and the bit where Jill is trying to get pregnant by the little boy.

ducky x

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 3 2009, 11:41 AM BST

I wanted to hear you were coming to build me an extension for half the price of the firm down the road. :)

I've got nothing against Eastern Europeans. Some of my tenants are Eastern European and I'm quite happy to take their rent. :D

Hmma sexy blond version of Rising Damp?

Now can we all stop being racist and talk about racist stuff we liked!

Oh and I love that funny foreign meerkat on the insurance adverts.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 3 2009, 11:41 AM BST

I wanted to hear you were coming to build me an extension for half the price of the firm down the road. :)

Believe me, you don't want my extension...

<meaning my D-I-Y skills are zilch. I refuse to do any jokes in the 'extension is penis' genre>

Dan

I'm flat mates with Jean Paul Sartre.

He'll do your existential for 50% off.

Quote: swerytd @ April 3 2009, 11:50 AM BST

Believe me, you don't want my extension...

<meaning my D-I-Y skills are zilch. I refuse to do any jokes in the 'extension is penis' genre>

Dan

What, you mean you're not a builder?

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 3 2009, 11:52 AM BST

What, you mean you're not a builder?

Do I look like a builder? Oh, all of us Ukrainians look alike do we? Racist!

Dan

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