Death of Comedy

Harry & Paul (originally titled Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul) is a British sketch comedy show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 13 April 2007 and ran until 2nd December 2012 Even though Harry and Paul were "poking fun" at stereotypes, we would be hard pushed to see comedy like this on TV today due to all the PC nonsense. The sketch with the Filipino maid angered the Filipino government so much they started a campaign to condemn the sketch and eventually the BBC Director General had to officially apologise. This is a selection of some the sketches that angered the public, but of course are the most funny, cut into one episode.

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Girls Aloud

What if...bad taste were properly punished?

By Stuart McGurk, The London Paper, 13 September 2006, p.22.

There are many ways that you can be punished for doing bad things. There are fines, community service, jails, nipple-tweaks – everything.

But what about having bad taste? It’s all very well punishing muggers, murderers, rapists and people who commit ungoldly sins against rabbits – but what about those who go to see Big Momma’s House 2? Sure, there are twisted psycho killers who would think nothing of garrotting an innocent old lady, stuffing her, installing supports and using her as a coffee table – but what about the substantial queues outside The Lion King? And, yes, there are demented, perverted, sick, twisted fiends prowling the streets at night, looking for their next innocent victim – but have you seen the numbers shuffling into Sandi Thom gigs? So which is worse, really?

But we can’t blame those producing this cultural shod. They’re simply supplying a demand. No, it’s the audience we must punish.

Like any justice system, the severity of punishment would depend on the severity of the crime. Anyone wanting to see Girls Aloud at GAY, for instance, would receive a swift glove-slap to the face on entry. It would work like any first offence – the punishment would get worse with each infringement. Return again and someone smashes you in the face with a boxing glove. A third time? A wrench. The fan club would truly be for dedicated followers only.

Other punishments would be more instantaneous. Anyone attending a West End collaboration between Ben Elton and Andrew Lloyd Webber, for example, would face the lottery of every one in four interval drinks containing strychnine. Not only would audience numbers thin dramatically, but the resulting experience would be 10,000 times more exciting for the survivors.

You would not even have to punish people directly (apart from an ice pick to the head for people attending stand-up by Jim Davidson, of course) because you could just guard against the next generation instead. Dishing out special ‘neutering popcorn’ to anyone seeing an Adam Sandler comedy, for instance, should do the trick.

This wouldn’t put all bad culture out of business, mind, so you could use the surplus tosh to deal with overcrowded prisons – simply send the worst, hard-as-nails, career criminals to Roy Chubby Brown [English stand-up comedian] gigs for the rest of their sentence.

And just watch the crime levels drop once we get Gareth Gates [runner-up in the first series of the ITV 'talent show' Pop Idol] on the case.

Conspiritainment Quotes

▫ Enter - come or go into (a place). Synonyms: get involved in, join, throw oneself into, engage in, set foot in, cross the threshold of, gain access to, infiltrate, access on, take up.

▫ Tain - comes from French and ultimately from Latin, where it has the meaning 'hold.' It is related to the root ten. This meaning is found in such words as: abstain, attain, contain, detain, entertain, maintain, obtain, pertain, rein, retain, retinue, sustain.

▫ Ment - From Late Latin mente, ablative singular of mēns ('mind').

“Now why do we speak of films and entertainment? Because this is the way that your culture manifests its out‑picturing of fear and love. If you would like to take a measurement of how many films emanate the vibration of love and how many emanate the vibration of fear, you will see that those scales are quite imbalanced at this time. Because who is in control of the messages coming out of the western coast of this country? Are these people motivated by the manifestation of love? They are motivated by power and greed. You see, if you do not question that, you can not change it. So we ask you to be very conscious of what you are available for, at this time.” - Kuthumi (channelled through Ronna Prince, Ascended Master Workshop – Discourse, 18 June 2005, www.azlivinglight.com).

"What They did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world.

They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as They ran the world. I think They thought you were too dumb to notice.

Indeed, I thought They had won.

But I watched you occupy the capital of Wisconsin. I see you today as you occupy Wall Street. And I see a spark, a glimmer of the glorious new age that is yours. A changing of the guard, a guard that has stood for entirely too long and needs your young legs to take his place.

I watch you turn away from what is easy and stand up for what is right. I see you understand we as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. I see you wise beyond your years. And I am proud…You are beautiful."

- Kate Danley

"So there, we have figured it out, go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed America, here's American Gladiators. Here's 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fuckin skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America, you are free...to do as we tell you. You are free, to do as we tell you." - Bill Hicks.

"Americans not only feel powerless, they are powerless. They cannot do anything. The highly concentrated, corporate-owned, government-subservient print and TV media are useless and no longer capable of performing the historic role of protecting our rights and holding government accountable. Even many antiwar Internet sites shield the government from 9/11 skepticism, and most defend the government's ‘righteous intent’ in its war on terror. Acceptable criticism has to be couched in words such as ‘it doesn't serve our interests.’ Voting has no effect. President "Change" is worse than Bush/Cheney. As Jonathan Turley suggests, Obama is "the most disastrous president in our history." Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who stands up for the Constitution, but the majority of Americans are too unconcerned with the Constitution to appreciate him. To expect salvation from an election is delusional. All you can do, if you are young enough, is to leave the country. The only future for Americans is a nightmare." - Paul Craig Roberts (from The Day America Died).

“I don’t like anything in the mainstream and they don’t like me.” - Bill Hicks.

"If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible." - Wilhelm Reich.

“At our level of consciousness thoughts are sluggish and dull. They are created by our limited imagination, which atrophies over time through logic and the constant bombardment of technology. Technology throws us ten thousand images a day, requiring us to do little with our own imaginations. So our perception is limited by a lack of imagination and use, and it is stifled by the bounds of our intellect which requires things to act in a certain way. It amazes me how many people have deteriorated to such an extent – through logic and technology – that they can’t visualise at all.” - Stuart Wilde (Whispering Winds of Change, Hay House, London, U.K., 1993/2007, p.150).

“Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.” - Epictetus.