Comments on: Banana-skin humour

By: CaMiCasi

CaMiCasi — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:07:22 +0000

In the UK they’re allowed to go a little further with the Queen than gently mimicking her idiosyncracies… there was quite a bit of (ultimately self-defeating) righteous indignation thrown about when Frankie Boyle delivered his classic line about ‘what the Queen didn’t say in her Christmas message’ on Mock The Week back in ’09.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ESgHRI5HI

It was cleared by the BBC on the grounds that it was ‘in poor taste’ but ‘would not have gone beyond audience expectations for the programme’.

Based on this, viewers wanting to watch anything made by Zoo should expect that crass, unfunny, bumbling slapstick isn’t withheld from them. As someone above commented, most other Maltese television productions fall short of basic standards of decency on a regular basis.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:27:10 +0000

“Bruno”?! Oh please…

By: il-Ginger

il-Ginger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:53:29 +0000

In reply to Fairy Liquid. That is so sad. :(

By: A.Charles

A.Charles — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:45:50 +0000

In reply to John Schembri. I once saw a small piece of a "comedy" by Zoo just after Bondi Plus. I thought that they were trying to imitate the BBC programme Shooting Stars by Vic and Bob (Reeves and Mortimer). It was embarrassingly bad and I felt sorry for the guests on the show.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:09:44 +0000

“The trouble is that the producers of VIP Xow, the very same ones who are responsible for that cringe-making and sub-standard Zoo, have neither the intelligence nor the education to work out these distinctions.”

It seems that you never watch One TV, on which Zoo also have this so-called programme called Telepoplu. They scraped the bottom with that.

A good Maltese comedian: Charles Clews, whose jokes were clean and original. He knew how to deliver a punch-line, and his body language was perfectly English.

Once Armando Urso corrected the then young Charles Thake about the latter’s level of acting. He told him to stop being a ‘kummidjant’ and to start being an ‘attur komiku’. Chrysander and Company need this advice badly.

Presently the best comedy on Maltese TV is Deceduti. I like the way it is produced, the exaggerated body language of the actors and the plot.

By: VR

VR — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:04:24 +0000

I am not really surprised that it did not cross their minds that the scene was in bad taste, at the very least.

By: Fairy Liquid

Fairy Liquid — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:53:16 +0000

Nothing to do with the above post, but certainly highly relevant to current events in Malta’s Constitutional Court:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/bill-zeller-dead-princeto_n_805689.html

By: Spiru

Spiru — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:42:54 +0000

I understand the fact that it never crossed these people’s mind that what they were doing was potentially illegal, but didn’t it cross Prof. Cassola’s mind, for goodness’ sake?

By: Mark Camilleri

Mark Camilleri — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:52:21 +0000

I must defend the Front from your unjust criticism. As I already stated in this article: http://www.ir-realta.org/articles/item.aspx?id=112, the quality of the censored content has got nothing to do with the issue of censorship.

Natalino Fenech himself admitted that the clip was censored because it was in ”bad taste” and not because it was of low quality. I understand that when one judges something in “bad taste”, one is considering it obscene or coarse, and not necessarily of low quality.

If Natalino Fenech has used quality criteria to ban this show then he should have also banned most of the other programmes on TVM.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:07:35 +0000

Some persons may actually take perverse pride in having been “censored’, much like some British hooligans who collect ASBOs as if they were medals.

Unfortunately there will also be people unable to see any difference between banning literature like Azzopardi’s Vampir and stopping Zoo’s VIP Xow, which should have been banned on grounds of bad spelling alone.