Is clever comedy about to be killed by mass effect?
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I listened to this yesterday on Radio 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ffx2
Blessed is the radio, tuned in to DAB ( Digital Alternative comedy Broadcasting)
Being Ade, it was funny and had some pathos and also was a bit "off the wall"
He's a clever b
d, comedy wise.
But then during the endless hours after night tracks ( an excellent listen on headphones whilst something primordial and walrus like snores next to you ) I got to pondering about the state of
COMEDY TODAY ON MEDIA.
If you think about Ade Edmundon and Rik Mayall they were actually Laurel and Hardy taken onwards in time. Ade talks about the Goon show etc, but actually I think all those years of watching Laurel and Hardy had some rub off. Saturday mornings after Teddy Edward and Mary, Mungo and Midge. The holy trinity of a young 8 year old ...
What I don't get nowadays is that now comedy is open to the masses there is no editorial control, the chaff is ever more mixed in with the wheat.
It's both good, as you get more gems from an unusual source. Bad because 100x more chaff.
I listen to what my 17 year old is watching on youtube and it is so bloody dumb it hurts ... NO EDITORIAL CONTROL. NO CHOPPING THE HEAD OFF WITH THE AXE.
It's as if Anne Bolyen escaped the axe and then decided to do a stand up comedy show....
Are we forever going to be cursed with the 21st Century version of Terry and June?
Being brought up with BBC/ Channel 4 comedy programs from the 1980s... well, that is a really bad pill to swallow.
Or am I just an old dinosaur ?
I fear that a "meme" of our growing up that connects us, from Boomers to Generation X is now going to be lost to Millennials and generation Y / Z who have no common connection with an era due to the massive diversity of data.
Generation X on their deathbeds might be the last generation that had something in common, due to data restriction in that time period.
What do you think?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ffx2
Blessed is the radio, tuned in to DAB ( Digital Alternative comedy Broadcasting)
Being Ade, it was funny and had some pathos and also was a bit "off the wall"
He's a clever b
d, comedy wise. But then during the endless hours after night tracks ( an excellent listen on headphones whilst something primordial and walrus like snores next to you ) I got to pondering about the state of
COMEDY TODAY ON MEDIA.
If you think about Ade Edmundon and Rik Mayall they were actually Laurel and Hardy taken onwards in time. Ade talks about the Goon show etc, but actually I think all those years of watching Laurel and Hardy had some rub off. Saturday mornings after Teddy Edward and Mary, Mungo and Midge. The holy trinity of a young 8 year old ...
What I don't get nowadays is that now comedy is open to the masses there is no editorial control, the chaff is ever more mixed in with the wheat.
It's both good, as you get more gems from an unusual source. Bad because 100x more chaff.
I listen to what my 17 year old is watching on youtube and it is so bloody dumb it hurts ... NO EDITORIAL CONTROL. NO CHOPPING THE HEAD OFF WITH THE AXE.
It's as if Anne Bolyen escaped the axe and then decided to do a stand up comedy show....
Are we forever going to be cursed with the 21st Century version of Terry and June?
Being brought up with BBC/ Channel 4 comedy programs from the 1980s... well, that is a really bad pill to swallow.
Or am I just an old dinosaur ?
I fear that a "meme" of our growing up that connects us, from Boomers to Generation X is now going to be lost to Millennials and generation Y / Z who have no common connection with an era due to the massive diversity of data.
Generation X on their deathbeds might be the last generation that had something in common, due to data restriction in that time period.
What do you think?
Edited by Gandahar on Tuesday 18th February 16:15
The more sources there are for comedy the better imho. Some of it may be dross but ultimately if it makes someone laugh then it's done its job. It's not as though the BBC aren't perfectly capable of producing mindless comedy entirely devoid of humour.
Thank goodness for Comedy Unleashed clips on YouTube. There'd be zero chance of any of that appearing on TV, not because it isn't funny but because it's the wrong sort of humour.
Thank goodness for Comedy Unleashed clips on YouTube. There'd be zero chance of any of that appearing on TV, not because it isn't funny but because it's the wrong sort of humour.
Gandahar said:
I listen to what my 17 year old is watching on youtube and it is so bloody dumb it hurts ...
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