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Did anyone see the Brook cartoon in the Metro when Hawking was taken into hospital?
"Have they tried turning him off and turning him back on again?"
Brook took some flak for that, but most people laughed. I know I did. Bad taste can be funny, but not bad taste for its own sake. As Sooty says, this is too simplistic.
There is comic potential in a running gag about a man becoming frustrated with an inert activity partner, but the idea needs more development, and I am not sure the disabled angle is worth pursuing.
Quote: Scottidog @ April 27 2009, 10:18 PM BSTProbably has been, the writers on that show DO NOT GIVE A SHIT!...Family guy is great.
Your basic idea with Peter from Family Guy as Hawking's partner could be funny, assuming it had been set up properly (which it would have been), because it fits with Peter's character. It is about having a frame of reference that makes the gag work and enables you to get away with it.
[quote name="Timbo" post="405801" date="April 28 2009, 12:07 AM BST"]Did anyone see the Brook cartoon in the Metro when Hawking was taken into hospital?
"Have they tried turning him off and turning him back on again?"
That's what I thought of when I saw these. People got so upset over it, however, as I mentioned in the other thread, it was funny not because of Hawking's disability, but because of how nonsensical it is for computer folk to offer that as a solution.
Although, actually think Scott's sketches are funnier than the cartoon.
Quote: Timbo @ April 28 2009, 12:07 AM BSTDid anyone see the Brook cartoon in the Metro when Hawking was taken into hospital?
"Have they tried turning him off and turning him back on again?"
That's an enviable good gag, wished I'd thought of it.