Well executed.
Iraq's Got Talent Page 2
Quote: billwill @ May 18 2009, 12:34 AM BSTIt's SICK and racist!
No it isn't!
Perhaps just a bit sick but I definitely wouldn't label it as racist!
Quote: billwill @ May 18 2009, 12:34 AM BSTIt's SICK and racist!
Sick perhaps - but where's the 'racist'. We have:
1) An Iraqi man and woman. (Nationality not race)
2) The crowd (presumably the plural of above)
Again - what's racist about it?
Or is it just in 'the eye of the beholder'? 
Scotti -
I like the idea very much but I think there may be a few improvements.
I don't actually think Iraq does it's executions by beheading - Saudi is far more "infamous" for it.
I personally would have set this in the time of the French Revolution - the event that made the Guillotine famous. Big wigs are always funny. You could have the judges doing their knitting while watching just like the women used to do while watching the aristo's lose their heads.
It's very good (with the recommended changes) but Bigfella's right - you should alter the victims of the joke to make them Saudi.
Quote: hey_nonny @ May 18 2009, 3:36 PM BSTNo it isn't!
Perhaps just a bit sick but I definitely wouldn't label it as racist!
Calm down now, Billwill didn't say being sick and racist was a bad thing...
Calm down, get back to the point in hand guys, it's a sketch get over it.
Quote: Morrace @ May 18 2009, 3:55 PM BST1) An Iraqi man and woman. (Nationality not race)
2) The crowd (presumably the plural of above)Again - what's racist about it?
Or is it just in 'the eye of the beholder'?
OK so why doesn't the joke work if you set it in Cardiff with Welsh people or Edingburgh with Scots people!
RACEism, maybe not, but it's still picking on a foreign group and atttributing generic nasty practices to the whole group. That's the sort of thing that politicians do when winding people up to go to war. I for one don't consider it funny. Listen/read some of Churchill's wartime speeches and the way he stigmatizes ALL the German people and grouped them all as the devilish Huns.
Quote: bigfella @ May 18 2009, 4:04 PM BSTScotti -
I don't actually think Iraq does it's executions by beheading - Saudi is far more "infamous" for it.
Irrelevant! it wasn't an EXECUTION in this sketch, it was chopping off an innocent woman's head as entertainment. Not an idea to be made fun of, IMO.
Now if you changed it so that the magician chopped his own head off, that might be funny, as it would be his own 'fault'. Then you could have him cheered and told he was through to the next round. The incongruity of that would be funny.
However the nationality of the cheering audience, should be anonymous.
Quote: Morrace @ May 18 2009, 3:55 PM BSTSick perhaps - but where's the 'racist'. We have:
1) An Iraqi man and woman. (Nationality not race)
2) The crowd (presumably the plural of above)Again - what's racist about it?
Or is it just in 'the eye of the beholder'?
Quote: billwill @ May 20 2009, 12:14 PM BSTRACEism, maybe not, but
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Quote: Paul W @ May 20 2009, 1:16 PM BSTENOUGH!
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Quote: billwill @ May 20 2009, 12:14 PM BSTthe magician chopped his own head off. Then you could have him cheered and told he was through to the next round.
That take on it made me laugh some very good
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Quote: don rushmore @ May 20 2009, 2:51 PM BSTI love it when you wield your power, Paul. It makes me go all weak at the knees.
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