Comments on: Illusions dashed

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:12:00 +0000

I can't comment on the joke because I haven't been told the context - and this is usually critically important.

Anyone basing their opinion of the 2001 Brass Eye on the media furore as opposed to the programme itself would almost certainly have got (and perpetuated) completely the wrong impression, and I've seen at least one Connolly defender claim that he was making a similar point about media sensationalism.

Incidentally, I'm seeing Connolly live in a fortnight or so, but I suspect that particular part of the act will have changed a bit by then! Fittingly, it's my wedding anniversary - because I first met my wife online after I expressed the opinion in a public forum that no subject was taboo as far as humour was concerned, except possibly the death of a close relative. She e-mailed me out of the blue to challenge that qualification, and we hit it off immediately.

By: Bastien

Bastien — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:51:00 +0000

…and what’s the betting that most of the people who complained about the Bigley ‘joke’ (I’d have called it more of an ‘aside’, but there we are) are the very same people who complain about ‘Political Correctness Gone Mad’?

By: Tomodachi

Tomodachi — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:12:00 +0000

As far as humour is concerned i'm of the anything goes school of thought.

Having said that i thought Billy Connolly's joke about Bigley was simply not very funny. While bearing in mind what i said above it was also rather crass.

Do i deserve decapitation? Probably for my other sins, but not for criticising a normally funny comedian.