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AS Australians, we have a reputation for our offbeat sense of humour. But is the joke now on us? Or are we just losing our sense of humour, or more to the point, the art of satire?
Humour - or rather the lack of it has occupied more bloggers’ bytes on news sites over the past fortnight than any other topic.
Asked by news reporters for their view, everyone, right up to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, seems to have an opinion about what’s funny and what’s not.
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Why are they still referred to as the Chaser “boys”? They’re grown men, and they probably have a few more grey hairs after the events of the past week.
Perhaps the idiom has something to do with the phrase “jobs for the boys”? It certainly seems like it. They’ve kept theirs. The person hit hardest by their Make A Realistic Wish sketch, which the ABC says should not have been broadcast, is a woman named Amanda Duthie.
As The Australian reports today:
Before yesterday, Ms Duthie was one of the ABC’s most powerful executives—today her once dazzling career prospects are in limbo.
ABC managing director Mark Scott announced Ms Duthie had been removed as the head of ABC TV comedy following the airing last week of the sketch on The Chaser’s War on Everything that satirised the granting of wishes to terminally ill children through the “Make-a-Realistic-Wish Foundation”.
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Payton L. Inkletter says:
If we were to outlaw humour that offends, ridicules, or attacks, or has the potential to offend, ridicule, or attack, some one or group or another, there’d hardly be much left to laugh at. Black humour is a genre, and The Chasers’ Make a Realistic Wish skit will become an… Read more »
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Justin Turner says:
I rewatched the skit a few times on Thursday morning & I think that whatever they were aiming for, they missed, simple as that. If it was the celebs who use such associations for their image, then that didn’t come across, so that leaves the charity & the kids as… Read more »
I wasn’t upset when Princess Diana died. I didn’t know her, never met her, thought she seemed like a bit of a dill.
Sad for her family but that’s life isn’t it. One day it’s all going to end. Hopefully not naked in a cupboard in Bangkok like David Carradine but you just don’t know.
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Maria F NSW says:
Point taken and noted. Perhaps we don’t know what the chaser boys have been through in their illustrious lives. Having said that, does anyone honestly believe that they would have gone through with this pathetic excuse for a joke if one of their kids was going through treatment for a… Read more »
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nick says:
THe Chaser definitely need to have a skit on this true life (unfortunately) episode. Hopefully they can skewer the fact that Uncle Kev is tuned into whatever ACA will or has said. Really no better than John Howard. I would really like to know from Greg exactly what harm this… Read more »
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