A sad day for British comedy?

 

Well, unless I'm a monkey's uncle, we all fully understand & appreciate that Frankie Boyle's a comedian who plays it close to the knuckle. His legendary sardonic humor works so well as he reflects life - and he tells it like it is. Frankie takes no prisoners and can be distasteful, but his 'victims' are not limited to particular races or social classes: anyone & everyone are considered fair game.

His ability to make ordinary situations side-splittingly funny and his observational wisecracks are indeed his trademark, and the reason his shows are invariably sell-outs, and his regular appearances on so many panel shows.

It was only a matter of time, however, before the politically-correct namby-pambies got their claws out and into him. In fact, I'm amazed he was allowed to be so artistically free for so long. Our UK culture has long been one which stifles originality & restricts free speech on the basis that it will offend at least somebody.

If Frankie is censured for his recent comments, then British comedy will be a sadder institution.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/12/24/frankie-boyle-racism-storm-bosses-back-comic-115875-22804030/ 

The Land of the Free?

Wondering what dirty tricks the US admin has hidden up his sleeve for Julian Assange? We've already got the trumped up sex charges which gave an excuse for an InterPol arrest warrant, we have the idiotic bonehead, and possibly the US's next president, Sarah Palin screaming for him to be 'hunted like Bin Laden', but what if all of this doesn't stick?

Well, clearly the US Admin is feeling rather peeved. After all, they're being exposed and revealed as the duplicitous, bullying dullards they really are, and their lack of understanding of international affairs has been exposed as stunning. They must be incandescent too to realize that their 'friends and allies' now know precisely what they think of them. This must be a massive embarrassment for them.

The big thing though is that we now all know this, and lots more incredibly shocking stuff is set to be released, whether or not Assange remains a free man - and we have the proof of this. It's no longer information shared amongst a small group of cronies 'in the know', it's world wide exposure, with massive publicity to boot.

Being exposed, and vulnerable, the US Admin will want blood, and lots of it. They'll want Assange. Then they'll look for victims amongst their own kind, and eventually, we'll have show trials which will make 'Mama Mia' look like a cornershop production. It's the American way. Let's just hope American people, now in possession of WikiLeaks facts are now a little clearer on what goes on inside their country, and how their politicians hold the rest of the world in so much evident contempt!

I find it somewhat ironic that the Russian newspaper Pravda (Truth), former mouthpiece of the Soviet Union's repressive Communist Party, now reports on their fears for press & personal freedoms within the USA. How times do change.

What next for Assange though? No doubt the CIA baddies are plotting plots. Poisoned fish next? a re-run of the ricin-tipped umbrella routine? Radioactive soup, or maybe even abduction by aliens, perhaps those locked away in Area 51? 

Who knows... but they WILL be plotting!