Watch this for some truly brilliant Labour wit

Published: November 22, 2014 at 2:01am

Fader Gortin (last seen driving Sandro Chetcuti’s red Ferrari to visit Joseph Muscat) and that expressionless woman who did the Team PL interviews for the Labour Party’s general election campaign wow the audience at Malta’s Song for Europe. Their great gag about China left the audience silent and our girl with the mike had to ask for applause for her witty co-host, as though he’s some kind of two-year-old whose ego might be bruised.




23 Comments Comment

  1. Butterfly says:

    Uncalled for.

    Shows how amateurish we are.

    I remember Enzo Gusman on stage one time saying, Mela jien iswed? This was because he was not given a hug by the lady who was presenting the show.

    From the outside looking in, one sees how stupid a section of the general population is in Malta.

  2. Mark says:

    The comedians have taken over. Only no one’s laughing.

    • thinking aloud says:

      When the public doesn’t laugh at such a joke it just highlights how serious the public is seeing the matter. It is no longer a joke.

  3. Albert Bonnici says:

    What crap.

  4. manum says:

    I used to think that I was the only one to see how cheap and tacky the presenters were. They absolutely have no idea what presenting is all about, and that dress?

  5. Mim says:

    Is it possible that they could not find someone who gargled words and someone else who does not need to screech.

    I would suggest that if we are not capable of doing good humour, we revert to regular, adult presenting techniques. I admit that I do not know anything at all about show business but I certainly know that cringe worthiness is not a virtue and is very painful to watch.

  6. not impressed says:

    That was not humour. That was an insult to even the most mediocre intelligence and a brilliant example of how the Labour propaganda machine is trying to instil the ‘normality’ of Chinese coming to Malta.

    It is highly reminiscent of the way Hitler used recreational media to illustrate his vision of normality.

    • Gahan says:

      The script writers need to work harder.

      Fader Gortin has nothing to do with what he said, unless he was the script writer. The audience felt it was in bad taste because the joke was on it, they’re paying.

      Before dozing off for the third time in front of my TV screen, there was this Budget 2015 advert – I thought I was having a bad dream about the 1980s, but no, it was the Malta Shipbuilding Song Festival and we’re being told that the shopkeeper down the road would be employing a shelf stacker because his bills will go down by 25%.

  7. Rover says:

    Big build up, poor punch line. Enough with the hand waving.

  8. Pat Zahra says:

    That he commented ‘Kemm taf iddawru lsienek’ when she spoke English (such as it was) just goes to show that there is no hope for these people.

    Injoranti minn guf ommhom kienu u jibqghu. Jaqq x’nies.

  9. bob-a-job says:

    Wit? I’d say witout.

  10. Peritocracy says:

    I think I can hear the sound of furious panto script rewriting.

  11. Mim says:

    For some unbelievable Labour wit please read what came out of minister Joe Mizzi incredible brain:

    ‘Transport Minister Joe Mizzi this evening defended the €23 million subsidy that will be given to the new buses company next year, saying that on a per capita basis Germany spent more in transport subsidies.’ Times of Malta.

    He ran out of finding examples from the Malta scene to divert fiascos and failed promises by crying ‘but mummy they did so too!’, he has now gone international.

    Should we start comparing the German service with the local one then? No, lets give him a standing ovation.

    http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141121/local/public-transport-subsidy-not-as-big-as-germanys-on-per-capita-basis-transport-minister.545074

  12. Ju! says:

    The point here is not mainly whether it was funny or not, but why was it seen fit to have it included in the banter script on national television.

    In my opinion this is not was not just an idiotic display by an individual, but, in its misguided way, was purposely meant to influence public opinion on the government’s intention to sell the country to China.

    At least, to the people who matter, it would have conveyed the opposite message, not that they would have been watching the concert.

  13. peanuts says:

    One word: PATHETIC

  14. Someone says:

    Intelligent people would find this worrying not funny, having our country’s power supply controlled by a communist dictatorship while the switchers and rest will have felt uncomfortable as they know there very own vote aided and abetted this sham.

    Very poor judgement by the scriptwriters as they ended scoring an own goal in the government’s web of lies.

  15. il-Ginger says:

    Man what I would have given to be the only person laughing during that silence.

  16. verita says:

    mur arahom ma Conchita llejla

  17. helen says:

    Didn’t you hear her introduce Lowrensssss Gray. I mean, I know he is on the short side, but, come on, manners please.

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