Jerry Springer - The Opera?
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All - surpisingly, I couldn't find a topic in 'General Gassing' nor the Pie'n'Piston...
Anyway, I'll be watching; wouldn't have watched if it wasn't for all the fuss.
As for 40,000 writing in to complain: can't they just switch it off if they don't like it???
Although there may be scenes that may be offensive to some, I believe in freedom of speech, not censorship. It's on past the 'watershed' (it's at 10pm), so I agree wholeheartedly with the Beeb that they should show this.
And on a last note: this is fiction, it's not real. Neither are numerous films shown on TV which graphically depict murder, rape and other (in my eyes!) more heinous activites than blasphemy and blue language.
There, got that off my chest
And now a night of curry and some right silly telly!
Anyway, I'll be watching; wouldn't have watched if it wasn't for all the fuss.
As for 40,000 writing in to complain: can't they just switch it off if they don't like it???
Although there may be scenes that may be offensive to some, I believe in freedom of speech, not censorship. It's on past the 'watershed' (it's at 10pm), so I agree wholeheartedly with the Beeb that they should show this.
And on a last note: this is fiction, it's not real. Neither are numerous films shown on TV which graphically depict murder, rape and other (in my eyes!) more heinous activites than blasphemy and blue language.
There, got that off my chest
And now a night of curry and some right silly telly!c4koh said:
All - surpisingly, I couldn't find a topic in 'General Gassing' nor the Pie'n'Piston...
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=147484&f=141&h=0
t'was only yesterday
Big fuss over nothing though. The only stage show that has been shown on TV that has worked IMHO was "Around the Horn" and that's because it was based on a radio show.
FourWheelDrift said:
t'was only yesterday
Big fuss over nothing though. The only stage show that has been shown on TV that has worked IMHO was "Around the Horn" and that's because it was based on a radio show.
Thanks - seems fellow p'headers agreed that it shouldn't be pulled as well
Well, i got caught up in the hype and decided to watch it.
I was bored after 10 mins and had already heard that the first half was the funniest, so i turned over once i started to nod off after about 15 mins.
Did any one else have a hard time actually understanding the vocals, it was like they were all singing over each others lines or something and it was all a bit confusing...for me at least.
Edited to add:
Did anyone see the 'Ruby Wax meets Springer' bit too...what the hell was that chick with the moustache thinking? I can understand a little facial hair but she had a thicker moustache than a lot of men!
>> Edited by hedders on Sunday 9th January 09:15
I was bored after 10 mins and had already heard that the first half was the funniest, so i turned over once i started to nod off after about 15 mins.
Did any one else have a hard time actually understanding the vocals, it was like they were all singing over each others lines or something and it was all a bit confusing...for me at least.
Edited to add:
Did anyone see the 'Ruby Wax meets Springer' bit too...what the hell was that chick with the moustache thinking? I can understand a little facial hair but she had a thicker moustache than a lot of men!
>> Edited by hedders on Sunday 9th January 09:15
didnt see it myself (was out), but heard complaints of blasphemy?
reckon the programme makers have no balls. if they did they wouldn't take the piss out of a weak religion like christianity (oh no! they burnt their TV licences!
) and go for the big boys anyway
take that salman rushdie... if he drove a car, it'd be an F1 on slicks in the snow and he'd commute to work every day in it. (he'd probably want to replace the carbon fibre body with kevlar though)
reckon the programme makers have no balls. if they did they wouldn't take the piss out of a weak religion like christianity (oh no! they burnt their TV licences!
) and go for the big boys anyway take that salman rushdie... if he drove a car, it'd be an F1 on slicks in the snow and he'd commute to work every day in it. (he'd probably want to replace the carbon fibre body with kevlar though)
shadowninja said:
didnt see it myself (was out), but heard complaints of blasphemy?
It could have been construed that jesus was wearing a nappie.. although it did look more like a loin cloth as it was different to the nappie the guy was wearing in the 1st half.
Also.. at one point they sing that mary was raped by an angel .. and once they have a song "it ain't easy being God" .. then it becomes "it ain't easy being Jerry" .. but that's about it.
As the church guy says beforehand - it's obviously all in the mind of a dying Jerry.
Thought it was good.. although musically not brilliant... although it was supposed to be an opera not a musical.
What did make me laugh was the disclaimer they got Kirsty Walk to say in the middle.
"As Jerry Springer decends into hell..."
.. not the thing you'd get to say everyday
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