Sitcom about the famine

Fratton Fred

pickarooney wrote: »

So if we were to cast this we'd need a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, a head-in-the-sand colonialist, a dynamite-in-the-sack macrobiolgist and a gay man with a catchphrase.

And a few religious nutters thrown in for good measure.

Peregrine

If you wish to discuss the actual famine/genocide/whatever you want to call it, there are more appropriate places for that than After Hours.

This thread is about a sitcom about it(or set during it). Stay on topic.


Mod

Why dont they make a sitcom about the holocaust while they are at it,or maybe a hilarious comedy about the people killed in that tsumani a few years back.maybe the guy who thought this idea up would like a sitcom made about his dead parents or other relations of his.how about a sitcom about the people killed in earthquakes around the world.whoever thought this sitcom up about the famine is an idiot

The Backwards Man

pickarooney wrote: »

So if we were to cast this we'd need a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, a head-in-the-sand colonialist, a dynamite-in-the-sack macrobiolgist and a gay man with a catchphrase.

That sounds good actually, in the seventies style of On The Buses or George And Mildred.

'You can repeal my Corn Laws any day duckie'

Actually that's more John Inman than anything.

Fratton Fred

droidman123 wrote: »

Why dont they make a sitcom about the holocaust while they are at it,or maybe a hilarious comedy about the people killed in that tsumani a few years back.maybe the guy who thought this idea up would like a sitcom made about his dead parents or other relations of his.how about a sitcom about the people killed in earthquakes around the world.whoever thought this sitcom up about the famine is an idiot

It was never "about" the famine though.

Channel 4 commissioned an Irish writer to pen a sitcom. He announced he was going to write one set during the famine.

Cue lots of people getting outraged.

Fratton Fred

Fratton Fred wrote: »

It was never "about" the famine though.

Channel 4 commissioned an Irish writer to pen a sitcom. He announced he was going to write one set during the famine.

Cue lots of people getting outraged.

Im going to be honest,i didnt read the details of what the whole scenario about the sitcom was,i just read the op.but even if it was set "during" the famine i still dont see the point of it.i know there was lots of sitcoms set during ww2,but there was so many scenarios going on they kinda got away with it.i dont see why the sitcom has to be set "during" the famine unless there is going to be some reference to it,and that brings me back to my original post

Fratton Fred

droidman123 wrote: »

Im going to be honest,i didnt read the details of what the whole scenario about the sitcom was,i just read the op.but even if it was set "during" the famine i still dont see the point of it.i know there was lots of sitcoms set during ww2,but there was so many scenarios going on they kinda got away with it.i dont see why the sitcom has to be set "during" the famine unless there is going to be some reference to it,and that brings me back to my original post

I would guess that it can also deliver a message, similar to the way Blackadder does.

weldoninhio

PARlance wrote: »

I thought the "I'm going to inform everyone that I haven't heard about this Z list celeb to make me look....." craze was just spreading into other threads.

(I'll work on a catchier name for the phenomenon)

The "Who?" craze?

FURET

Minderbinder wrote: »

There is nobody alive today that even met anyone that experienced this event. It is ancient history.

That's not true.

Mesrine65

Sitcom about the famine...brought to you by Dominoes Pizza's :eek:

kylith

I can see how humour can be taken from bad events; Blackadder, 'Allo 'Allo, and the like, but I really can't see that there is any way that you can make an entertaining comedy out of people starving to death.

DanielODonnell

It is only 5 generations ago, my great great great grandfather was born in 1815, it would be 4 generations to older people here so it is hardly ancient history. In Ulster the 1600's are still a sensitive matter.

FURET

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It is only 5 generations ago, my great great great grandfather was born in 1815, it would be 4 generations to older people here so it is hardly ancient history. In Ulster the 1600's are still a sensitive matter.

The famine is still accessible through oral history due to its relative recency. But there is no comparable memory of the 1600s.

DanielODonnell

FURET wrote: »

The famine is still accessible through oral history due to its relative recency. But there is no comparable memory of the 1600s.

The blood in our veins is enough for us to feel the pain

catbear

FURET wrote: »

The famine is still accessible through oral history due to its relative recency. But there is no comparable memory of the 1600s.

I would disagree strongly with that. It was at that point that native law was totally extirpated, before that it could be said that english and irish laws co-existed.

FURET

catbear wrote: »

I would disagree strongly with that. It was at that point that native law was totally extirpated, before that it could be said that english and irish laws co-existed.

What point do you think I'm making?

catbear

FURET wrote: »

What point do you think I'm making?

The events of the 1600s are reflected in how the current state and the north were defined by religious considerations.
The Irish language continued in wide use until the famine era.

FURET

catbear wrote: »

The events of the 1600s are reflected in how the current state and the north were defined by religious considerations.
The Irish language continued in wide use until the famine era.

But what I wrote has nothing to do with that. There are no family stories surviving from the 1600s to the present day. There are from the famine. That is the only point I'm making.

catbear

FURET wrote: »

But what I wrote has nothing to do with that. There are no family stories surviving from the 1600s to the present day. There are from the famine. That is the only point I'm making.

My point is that while the feelings of the great famine still haunt many parts of the country and inform a societal outlook, it was the events of the 1600s that made us Irish outsiders in our own land. This past gave rise to the movement towards freedom that predates the famine and was only strengthen the demand for national self determination.

I'm taking nothing from your point but emphasising the issue that existed before and contributed to the famine.

As a side it is thought that the long hunger of 1740 took a greater toll than the great famine but is forgotten as census weren't as accurate then.

Orangebrigade

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It is only 5 generations ago, my great great great grandfather was born in 1815, it would be 4 generations to older people here so it is hardly ancient history. In Ulster the 1600's are still a sensitive matter.

Ulster never forgets.

FarmersMarket

Wow...imagine if a German t.v. show made a sit-com about the holocaust. But sure it's just old Paddy so the same standards of respect don't apply.