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Channel4 to make Comedy on Irish famine

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  1. Garrymac1888

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    :50: That's my issue with censorship mate; its an amazing marketing tool.
     
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  2. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    No me naw? :54:
     
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    :56:
     
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  4. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    I put in all the * work and you swoop in with yer one line summary and hoover up all the plaudits.

    *! :smiley-laughing002:
     
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  5. Garrymac1888

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    :56::56:


    That's why the seagulls follow the trawlers Sean..
     
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  6. Gabriel Beidh an lá linn Gold Member

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    I have to disagree with you first:47:

    :50:Hate the nail on the head with that post. They is no conceivable advantage to setting this during the famine other than the reasons you have stated.
     
    Gabriel, Jan 3, 2015
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  7. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    :smiley-laughing002:
     
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  8. Gabriel Beidh an lá linn Gold Member

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    :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy

    That better
     
    Gabriel, Jan 3, 2015
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  9. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    Order has been restored.

    Thank you. *warm glow*
     
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    Four Lions.

    I think people need to see what the programme is like and where the comedy is aimed at before getting offended, otherwise it looks like they have a bit of an agenda. As others have said, I don't see many people outraged by Blackadder Goes Forth.

    If the comedy involved lots of potato related puns and slapstick jokes about people being too hungry to do basic tasks then we can all agree it's offensive.

    Or in The League, where the character Rafi says he went to New York in a policeman's uniform as soon as 9/11 happened so he could "get some crazy *". :56:
     
    Hibby, Jan 4, 2015
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    9/11 and 7/7 are minor events to a systematic genocide



    Again I'll ask would it be okay for a German TV station to do a sitcom based on a * death camp
     
    Jozo The Provo, Jan 4, 2015
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  12. Cena Never Give Up Gold Member

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    If they want
     
    Cena, Jan 4, 2015
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    Is this sitcom written by a Jew?
     
    Lennon2011, Jan 4, 2015
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  14. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Why does it make any difference whether it is or not ? Would it make it any more or less offensive to those that lost relatives during the Holocaust ?
     
    StPauli1916, Jan 4, 2015
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    It makes no difference, I just wanted to know.
     
    Lennon2011, Jan 4, 2015
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  16. 31B404 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Yes.

    Was it wrong for a US company to make Good Morning, Vietnam? No. Comedy can often put a message across than nothing else can.
     
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  17. Gabriel Beidh an lá linn Gold Member

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    So you expect this show to have an underlying moral message. Maybe we should wait before making this kind of judgement.
     
    Gabriel, Jan 4, 2015
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    If the jokes were all about making fun of dead Jews then no it wouldn't. If the writers treated the situation with sensitivity and respect for the victims then I wouldn't see a problem.
     
    Hibby, Jan 4, 2015
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    If its funny i will laugh,if its not funny i wont laugh.
    Everything is fair game in my book.
     
    wulliebad, Jan 5, 2015
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    Maybe you should also wait before jumping on the offended bus as well.
     
    Senna s1979, Jan 5, 2015
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