I like dark comedy and comedy that ignores boundaries or could be offensive, and I find this one quite sick. It ignores a boundary that shouldn't be stepped over as some things just aren't funny. Unless of course you are a teenage boy who giggles at willies and hasn't yet the intellect or life experience to get what they are actually making light of.
They're not actually doing anything apart from larking around with a towel. I doubt a six week old baby is going to know WTF is going on.
Then why not masturbate for real in front of an innocent baby if they are oblivious to it.
Well done to Matt Lucas for condemning this gutter filth. Really funny guy and decent too.
Frankie Boyle wouldn't do this, and if Boyle wouldn't do it then you know it's crossing the line.
Bit of a pathetic attempt to be 'edgy', really, if that's the best they can come up with. Not to mention their justification for what they've done being so pretentious.
I prefer more intelligent comedy and this seems more like the gang of boys you always got at school who were annoying, immature attention seekers. I'm all for pushing the boundaries but only when they are being pushed in the right direction and simulating a sex act and telling someone their baby is sexy is not going to turn them into comedy legends. They have, however, managed to get attention and I guess that's what they were after.
Then why not masturbate for real in front of an innocent baby if they are oblivious to it.
Well done to Matt Lucas for condemning this gutter filth. Really funny guy and decent too.
Frankie Boyle wouldn't do this, and if Boyle wouldn't do it then you know it's crossing the line.
Cool idea. In fact, for the purposes of entertainment, people could actually be shot dead in action films, or really thrown off buildings, or asked to crash a plane into a busy street.
Well it's certainly not pioneering, since this low rent crap has been done a million times before. Brave? Yes, you'd probably need to be quite brave to make such a fool of yourself in public
Well it's certainly not pioneering, since this low rent crap has been done a million times before. Brave? Yes, you'd probably need to be quite brave to make such a fool of yourself in public
In the article they claim that it's never been done before.
I don't know if they're talking about the baby aspect to it, but if they're talking about simulating masturbation do they honestly believe that it's something that has never been done before?
Anyway, who started propagating the idea that the purpose of comedy should be to push boundaries?
All I'm interested in with comedy is if something makes me laugh or not.
If it happens to push boundaries too, then that's all fine and dandy, but I don't see why its a prerequisite for comedy.
At the time, Hancock's Half Hour was boundary pushing.
50 years on it seems tame (quaint, even) but it broke a lot of ground when it first premiered.
Most of the popular radio shows of the 50s and 60s were funny in ways which hadn't been tried before:
The Goon Show
Take it from Here
Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne
The Al Read Show
A Life of Bliss (theme : "A bachelor gay am I ....")
Educating Archie
Just a Minute
In those days it was simply seen as an original approach, and it was far more important that they were funny.
A man who thinks a sketch featuring an old lady weeing on a supermarket floor and who starred in that tripe about an airline calling other comedy 'witless'. Oh what irony.
Cool idea. In fact, for the purposes of entertainment, people could actually be shot dead in action films, or really thrown off buildings, or asked to crash a plane into a busy street.
Clearly you know how to write words, but do you actually know what any of them mean?
A man who thinks a sketch featuring an old lady weeing on a supermarket floor and who starred in that tripe about an airline calling other comedy 'witless'. Oh what irony.
Didn't see the airline sitcom, but have to agree on the old lady sketch. Can Matt explain how that is funny and pushing boundaries in a useful way?
Didn't see the airline sitcom, but have to agree on the old lady sketch. Can Matt explain how that is funny and pushing boundaries in a useful way?
Quite.
I'm not saying these 'dudes' were funny at all, but the majority of his own work has been witless stupidity. Such a shame as 'Rock Profiles' was genius.
Comments
Then why not masturbate for real in front of an innocent baby if they are oblivious to it.
Well done to Matt Lucas for condemning this gutter filth. Really funny guy and decent too.
Frankie Boyle wouldn't do this, and if Boyle wouldn't do it then you know it's crossing the line.
Cool idea. In fact, for the purposes of entertainment, people could actually be shot dead in action films, or really thrown off buildings, or asked to crash a plane into a busy street.
It sounds like something out of a GCSE media studies essay.
So postmen and cricket umpires are comedians?
His response 'I don't get it, that's not comedy'!
Who knows, maybe they'll be comedy geniuses and this will be a classic in 20 years from now!
I doubt it though!
I don't think you're quite ready for an open mike session!
Aren't I? Aw, okay then!:p
There being nothing I wanted to watch on TV the other evening, I listened to Radio 4 Extra on my iPad app.
'Hancock's Half Hour', followed by 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'.
No pushing the envelope, no testing of boundaries, but both absolutely hilarious, and over 40 years old.
It's all down to context.
At the time, Hancock's Half Hour was boundary pushing.
50 years on it seems tame (quaint, even) but it broke a lot of ground when it first premiered.
In the article they claim that it's never been done before.
I don't know if they're talking about the baby aspect to it, but if they're talking about simulating masturbation do they honestly believe that it's something that has never been done before?
All I'm interested in with comedy is if something makes me laugh or not.
If it happens to push boundaries too, then that's all fine and dandy, but I don't see why its a prerequisite for comedy.
Is this what passes for comedy nowadays :rolleyes:
Most of the popular radio shows of the 50s and 60s were funny in ways which hadn't been tried before:
The Goon Show
Take it from Here
Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne
The Al Read Show
A Life of Bliss (theme : "A bachelor gay am I ....")
Educating Archie
Just a Minute
In those days it was simply seen as an original approach, and it was far more important that they were funny.
Clearly you know how to write words, but do you actually know what any of them mean?
Didn't see the airline sitcom, but have to agree on the old lady sketch. Can Matt explain how that is funny and pushing boundaries in a useful way?
Quite.
I'm not saying these 'dudes' were funny at all, but the majority of his own work has been witless stupidity. Such a shame as 'Rock Profiles' was genius.