sheldrake

I'm a bit grouchy today because I stayed up really late last night obsessively reading the blog of an evangelical Christian right-wing anti-abortionist with mysogynist tendencies and homophobic and Islamophobic leanings. Yeah, I don't know why either. I obviously just like mentally poisoning myself. I won't go into how I ended up in this position, but it started with mediocre Radio 4 comedy. Sigh... Jokes based on lazy stereotyping are boring and make Alan Turing cry. Oh, and there's that thing where they help to perpetuate attitudes which are harmful to real people. But there, it's only comedy isn't it? (The odd thing was that the blogger in question seemed to occasionally have thoughtful things to say about comedy and censorship, stereotyping and responsibility. But then he'd go off on one about how we'd be better off without the NHS and the promotion of homosexuality in schools. And despite his apparent view that one shouldn't make mean-spirited jokes about members of opressed minority groups... it doesn't seem to have stopped him writing a bunch of hilarious homo jokes for our teatime entertainment.)

Ah, anyway. I want some scripted comedy what is actually funny back in the 6.30 cooking-time slot! Personally, I like Fags, Mags and Bags, because it is both amazing and great, and has a Wall of Crisps. And a Shopumentary. (You should probably watch the Shopumentary first).