AnonoBoy wrote: » Does he? Can't see that on his list of credits.
david75 wrote: » Would you admit to it? i wouldnt.
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.
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.
Doris300 wrote: » People love nothing more than to get offended
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Kinda begs the question why make them into comedies in the first place.
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. For all I know, he could be making the first example, but since it doesn't even exist yet, perhaps it's a bit early to getting outraged.
Timberrrrrrrr wrote: » There's a comedy out about North Korea atm not seeing too much hand wringing over that.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Big difference in a comedy about North Korea and what this is about. Obviously not to you though.
AnonoBoy wrote: » Ever seen Life is Beautiful? I have Jewish friends who laughed and cried at that film despite having lost family members during the Holocaust.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Strange reaction.
There is a famine graveyard up the road from me, all the bodies thrown in together and only a few rocks to mark their passing and no headstone to remember them by, I pass this place everyday and it's just seems a strange subject to want to make fun of.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Strange reaction. There is a famine graveyard up the road from me, all the bodies thrown in together and only a few rocks to mark their passing and no headstone to remember them by, I pass this place everyday and it's just seems a strange subject to want to make fun of.
niamhstokes wrote: » Will they be making a comedy about the holocaust too?
scouttio wrote: » This is what is annoying me about the reactions about the idea. People seem to think its going to be poking fun at the stupid hungry paddy Irishman. Nobody knows what sort of tone it will take, what sort of stories will be told, nobody knows where the comedy will come from.
We’re kind of thinking of it as “Shameless” in famine Ireland.
AnonoBoy wrote: » It's already been made - Life is Beautiful. Guy won best actor in the Oscars for it. Again people are jumping to presume it will be mocking the dead as opposed to possibly just being a comedy set during that time. Many would fail to see anything funny about all the millions that died in WWI but yet Blackadder managed to be a brilliant sitcom set during that time.
My name is URL wrote: » The guy writing it said exactly what kind of 'tone' they're going for We’re kind of thinking of it as “Shameless” in famine Ireland. It's clearly not going to be some kind of cerebral comedy like Frasier. The lazy title of the show alone is an indicator of what brand of humor you can expect.
Allyall wrote: » Something that doesn't seem to have been mentioned also, is that the timing announcing that they were planning on making this coincided with this newshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/31/bones-found-on-canadian-beach-likely-from-coffin-ship-from-irelands-great-famine/
AnonoBoy wrote: » I doubt that's anything but coincidence. Also - the guy has been commissioned to write the show. That's no guarantee that it will ever get made.
Allyall wrote: » I know it's a coincidence, hardly planned, but I just thought it unusual that it hadn't been mentioned. It may kind of sink it home to a few. Who's idea was it to comission somebody to write it in the first place?
Hungry came about after Channel 4 read one of Travers’s other scripts and gave him an open commission for a sitcom. “Any idea I wanted – which was a massive opportunity and at the same time, seriously daunting,” he says.
martyos121 wrote: » A comedy about the famine?! Talk about no taste!
Israeli children of survivors collect Holocaust jokes as a hobby, notes Tamar Fox, who wrote Inherited Memories: Israeli Children of Holocaust Survivors (Cassel Academic, 1999). "Mostly, they are a kind of ethnic joke, whose self-irony aims at deflating, rather than destroying," she writes. In a telephone interview, Fox quietly recounts jokes she told as a child, afraid her 7-year-old son might overhear. "Why did Hitler commit suicide? Because he got the gas bill." Or, "What's the difference between a loaf of bread and a Jew? A loaf of bread doesn't scream when you put it in the oven." "At the time it was the need to shock," she continues. "I don't think I was a wicked child. It seemed like the only way available to tackle something scary. For me, at home, it was easier to discuss sex than the Holocaust." "Fun!" Moshe Waldoks spits, imitating the accented fury of a survivor. "You're making fun of our suffering?! What do you know about vat vee vent through!" Into the silence ripped by Waldoks' scripted fury, Lisa Lipkin drops an answer: "We're not making fun of what you went through. We're making fun of what we're going through now."
