Doris300 wrote: » People love nothing more than to get offended
Venus In Furs wrote: » Wish people would stop getting offended before seeing the flipping thing. As has been said, comedies have been done about lots of awful periods in history, and with taste and sensitivity.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » So when will the series on the famine in Ethopia be coming on our screens, bet that will be hilarious. 30 years ago might be too soon though, let's laugh at the 1 million who died by the roadside in the 1840's instead and are probably buried all around us.
david75 wrote: » Would you admit to it? i wouldnt.
AnonoBoy wrote: » Does he? Can't see that on his list of credits.
david75 wrote: » The guy writes for Katherine Lynch.. so it will be about as funny as famine
Ghost Buster wrote: » Then let's wait and see who writes and produces it. Or we can just condemn now.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » Really? I'd say they're like hen's teeth.
Grayson wrote: » look at MASH. Set in a war, in a hospital with people dying from war wounds. Still quite funny though.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » So when will the series on the famine in Ethopia be coming on our screens, bet that will be hilarious. 30 years ago might be too soon though, let's laugh at the 1 million who died by the roadside in the 1840's instead and are probably buried all Youre assuming the humour will be derogatory to those who died, perhaps it will take another angle.
Venus In Furs wrote: » Wish people would stop getting offended before seeing the flipping thing.
Ghost Buster wrote: » Unless youre a talented comedy writer, . There's a few about.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » It would be some task to find the funny side of the famine. You'd have to steer pretty clear of any source material. So clear, in fact, that it would almost need to be about something else entirely.
thelad95 wrote: » I think the Interview has set a new low in terms of what can be satirised so this doesn't actually seem that bad.
Allyall wrote: » No it's not. It's being written by a guy living in Dublin. But he's not Irish.
GalwayGuitar wrote: » Potentially positive? Are you for real? The English will have a great laugh at the thick Paddies who couldn't grow their potatoes.
lertsnim wrote: » I can't wait till someone does a comedy series based on the Holocaust.
The other fella wrote: » I often wondered why people in the coastal counties at least didnt stock up on mackerel from the sea during the summer during the famine.
Atlantic Dawn wrote: » There was no "famine" the country had plenty of food and animals in the country at the time that were exported to the UK if you look at the cargos leaving the ports at the time, plenty to feed everyone. A genocide might be a better description to what happened.
Hayley Tiny Tearfully wrote: » Whoa. What?
Venus In Furs wrote: » This. It's why I can watch Django Unchained but not 12 Years A Slave, and Inglourious Basterds but not Schindler's List, and Blackadder Goes Forth but not Gallipoli. None of them shy away from the horrific realities (some extremely brutal scenes in the Tarantino ones) and are not disrespectful or insensitive. Very much the opposite actually IMO. But that little bit of comic relief and warmth gives the feeling that it isn't *completely* time to give up on the world. It actually injects a dose of humanity IMO. Plus, laughing at monsters is an important thing to do IMO. Mel Brooks (a Jew) swore by it.
