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Hungry? C4 to create comedy series...about the famine

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    #92
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,555 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    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.

    Lol see what you want to see but you really shouldn't take words on a screen so seriously because often they get read wrong (as you have just proven).


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    #93
    pillphil
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    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.

    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.


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    #94
    irishfeen
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    Hardly appropriate anyway you look at it .. But I suppose if RTÉ or TV3 were to broadcast a comedy series about the IRA bombings on the British mainland or the London 2005 7/7 bombings then it would be acceptable to them.


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    #95
    Venus In Furs
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    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.
    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.


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    #96
    Standman
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    People who say " 'certain topic' is no laughing matter", really piss me off.


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    #97
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Mel Brooks (a Jew) swore by it.

    Whoa. What?


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    #98
    Grayson
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    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.

    look at MASH. Set in a war, in a hospital with people dying from war wounds. Still quite funny though.


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    #99
    Grayson
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    Hayley Tiny Tearfully wrote: »
    Whoa. What?

    Mel Gibson told her.


    I know I'm stealing that line


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    #100
    Atlantic Dawn
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    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.


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    #101
    The other fella
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    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.

    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.


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    #102
    Atlantic Dawn
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    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.

    They did.


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    #103
    The other fella
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    Why all the starvation then?


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    #104
    Corruptedmorals
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    People sold fishing boats/equipment for food and as time went on, wouldn't have had the energy anyway.


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    #105
    mikom
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    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.

    What happpens when you overfish?


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    #106
    AnonoBoy
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    I can't wait till someone does a comedy series based on the Holocaust.

    Or a funny film about a concentration camp like say.... Life is Beautiful?


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    #107
    Billy86
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    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.

    That's a bit presumptuous, isn't it? A great quote I read about comedy a few years back was that it is often "criticism masked as entertainment" and if they go down that avenue it could actually turn out pretty good.


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    #108
    AnonoBoy
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    Allyall wrote: »
    No it's not.
    It's being written by a guy living in Dublin. But he's not Irish.

    Where's he from then? Anything I can find about him would indicate he's Irish.


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    #109
    Capt'n Midnight
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    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.
    Not even remotely close.

    Until this incident North Korea would have been deemed acceptable targets, chosen so as to not offend any paying movie goers.

    Kinda reminds me of this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070354/
    French film where the villain is the head of the Albanian Secret Service.


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    #110
    Maximus Alexander
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    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.


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    #111
    Galwayguy35
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    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.


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    #112
    Ghost Buster
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    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.

    Unless youre a talented comedy writer, . There's a few about.


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    #113
    Venus In Furs
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    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.


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    #114
    Maximus Alexander
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    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Unless youre a talented comedy writer, . There's a few about.

    Really? I'd say they're like hen's teeth.


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    #115
    AnonoBoy
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    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Wish people would stop getting offended before seeing the flipping thing.

    Sure it hasn't even been bloody written yet and people are losing their sh*t over it.

    But of course they'll all apologise online publicly if it turns out to be hilarious. That's what happens isn't it?


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    #116
    Ghost Buster
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    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.


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    #117
    flunkyfearsome
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    Grayson wrote: »
    look at MASH. Set in a war, in a hospital with people dying from war wounds. Still quite funny though.

    Hot lips Mahoney 😜😜😜😜😜😜


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    #118
    Ghost Buster
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Really? I'd say they're like hen's teeth.

    Then let's wait and see who writes and produces it.
    Or we can just condemn now.


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    #119
    Maximus Alexander
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    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Then let's wait and see who writes and produces it.
    Or we can just condemn now.

    I haven't condemned anything. I expressed my skepticism.


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    #120
    david75
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    The guy writes for Katherine Lynch..

    so it will be about as funny as famine


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    #121
    AnonoBoy
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    david75 wrote: »
    The guy writes for Katherine Lynch..

    so it will be about as funny as famine

    Does he? Can't see that on his list of credits.


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