Quote: Tony Cowards @ February 4 2010, 10:35 AM GMTI would guess, and this is just a theory, that this is because a lot of creativity, and especially comedy, is about challenging conventions and seeing things in a different way, where as conservatism is, well, conservative and about maintaining the status quo.
That may be true, Tony, but the conventions of comedy have been, for a long time a lazy left-liberal default and comedians, far from challenging it, merely conform to it. Among this default position are anti-Americanism, anti-west, anti-Israel, anti-war, anti-Christianity, "anti-racism" (=anti WHITE racism), anti-"rightwing tabloids", Pro-Obama, pro-Islam, pro-Africa, pro-non western cultures (=pro nonwhite racism) etc etc. All these attitudes are held uncritically and some of them flatly contradict each other. To see how deep these lie one only has to read some of the comments in this post ie telling me to read the Sun despite an intelligent and wholly accurate critique of Brooker's programme. By such means is conformism maintained. Rather than deal with the issues the dissenter can be dismissed as a Sun-reader or some other ad hominem attack.
I live in the hope that we will see a British equivalent of South Park which tackles a great deal of sacred cows. I believe the BBC stands in the way of this. When was the last time you saw a BBC comedy which challenged any of the above positions?
