Franke Boyle: BBC are cowards

[P.Turnbuckle]

I thought I would share this with you all.

http://www.chortle.co...A_bbc_are_cowards?rss

Should the BBC be free to have expressive "talents" - or is the stiffling of jokes like this justified?

The Frankie Boyle Joke:

I’ve been studying Israeli Army Martial Arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back. People think that the Middle East is very complex but I have an analogy that sums it up quite well. If you imagine that Palestine is a big cake, well…that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.’

The end part of Frankie Boyle's Statement:

A few years ago I watched a documentary about life in Palestine. There’s a section where a UN dignitary of some kind comes to do a photo opportunity outside a new hospital. The staff know that it communicates nothing of the real desperation of their position, so they trick her into a side ward on her way out. She ends up in a room with a child who the doctors explain is in a critical condition because they don’t have the supplies to keep treating him. She flounders, awkwardly caught in the bleak reality of the room, mouthing platitudes over a dying boy.

The filmmaker asks one of the doctors what they think the stunt will have achieved. He is suddenly angry, perhaps having just felt at first hand something he knew in the abstract. The indifference of the world. ‘She will do nothing,’ he says to the filmmaker. Then he looks into the camera and says, ‘Neither will you’.

I cried at that and promised myself that I would do something. Other than write a few stupid jokes I have not done anything. Neither have you.

Yours,
PT

[ummmm]

And what do you expect us to do?

[Davethedog]

So Frankie Boyles will stand up and be counted no doubt he is aware his BBC career if ever he had one is over.

I have to say that I understand and applaude his motivation and if its not inappropriate - courage. However he appears to portray the situation as black and white when I think we are all aware there are large areas of gray.

More power to your elbow Frank

[Mr Veritas]

I think that when comedians start to use their jokes to "push" politically overt messages,then they have seriously lost the plot.
Did Frankie Boyle (who I happen to like) give up his (no doubt) lucrative salary and go and work as as a UN ambassador/worker/nurse.
No he did not,he stayed and made money out of what are at the least politically suspect jokes.
These people live in another moral world,they ay the words,but they don't follow them up by actions.

[123everton]

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.