Venus In Furs wrote: » No, not just that post - obviously. Oh yeh, plenty of self loathing Irish people with an inferiority complex. Makes no difference.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: » Anyone else think it's not cool to laugh about an event that not even 200 years ago killed a million Irish people and drove another million from their country to survive, signalling the start of a free fall in population and economic circumstances that would last over a century? But maybe I'm not cool and aloof enough to laugh at stuff like this. We'll wait and see.
pillphil wrote: » Do you imagine that despite the misery, there wasn't a streak of black humour running through the people who had to endure the famine? Humour is how we survive the worst things that happen to us. A show laughing at the stupid dying paddies who didn't know how to grow anything but potatoes would be disrespectful (but since it happened 200 years ago, not something to be offended by), a show about how people used humour to cope with the misery wouldn't be disrespectful.
Venus In Furs wrote: » Mel Brooks (a Jew) swore by it.
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.
Hayley Tiny Tearfully wrote: » Whoa. What?
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.
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.
lertsnim wrote: » I can't wait till someone does a comedy series based on the Holocaust.
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.
Allyall wrote: » No it's not. It's being written by a guy living in Dublin. But he's not Irish.
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.
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.
Ghost Buster wrote: » Unless youre a talented comedy writer, . There's a few about.
Venus In Furs wrote: » Wish people would stop getting offended before seeing the flipping thing.
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.
Grayson wrote: » look at MASH. Set in a war, in a hospital with people dying from war wounds. Still quite funny though.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » Really? I'd say they're like hen's teeth.
Ghost Buster wrote: » Then let's wait and see who writes and produces it. Or we can just condemn now.
david75 wrote: » The guy writes for Katherine Lynch.. so it will be about as funny as famine
