Friday 29th of March 2024

why Veep wont make your weep anymore..

joker

Satire is mortally wounded. The future is dead. The smiling idiots are winning. 

No, I’m not depressed. It’s the natural progression in a world where cockroaches are next in line to become more intelligent than humans. You can spray your place with Killbug but the kritters know the only safe place for them is inside your computers and electronics. Here they learn Quantum mechanics in five minutes, better than you can do in a lifetime.

Imagine that we are becoming more useless than a marzipan dildo. Yes, I needed this image to put things into perspective.

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The comedic mind behind television political satires Veep and The Thick Of It has ruled out new seasons, saying he is reluctant to return to parody the inner workings of government when politicians have so convincingly stolen his best lines.

At the premiere event of the Sydney Writers’ Festival which starts May 22, Armando Iannucci told a large audience at the Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday night he was both delighted and horrified by the ever shrinking space between television satire and reality. And without naming him, he had a dig at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for appropriating a campaign slogan invented for Veep

Armando Iannucci: politicians have stolen my best lines . 

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/armando-iannucci-politicians-have-stolen-my-best-lines-20170502-gvx7es.html

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The degree of separation between comedy and politics has become paper thin and this isn’t new news to Gus. I often use verbatim as a technique to show how loony our leaders are. No wonder stand-up comics talk about their own navels rather than go where the real shit is. They might be accused of plagiarising a real politician. 

And you can blame the annual press dinner at the White House for all this. There the mongrel pollies try out their best lines against the best in the business. Politicians are not comics for one night only. They are professional nasty jokers all year round. 

Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining what is killing you inside.” 

― The Joker - Heath Ledger

 

 

Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining why you're killing someone somewhere.” 

Gus Leonisky

foo murdoch was there too...

and here we go...

 

Speaking at the dinner attended by veterans of the Coral Sea battle and Australia-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Prime Minister reflected on how extensive losses in battle secured "victory for America, Australia and our allies".

"Over 600 American and Australian sailors and airmen died to secure that victory," he said.

"Our nation's freedom was secured by the bravery of the men on those ships and the pilots who flew through everything, the enemy and the weather could throw in their way.

Read more: 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-05/donald-trump-plays-down-malcolm-turnbull-tension-in-ny-meeting/8499146

 

'we're not babies"...

news..

spicing it up...

 

In times of great crisis, political comedy as usual can take on an unattractive pall of triviality. An average week’s topical material would engage with important political developments, but in a harmlessly jocular capacity. Even when punchlines took aim at a specific figure, they were little more than wisecracks, a way for the viewer to vicariously blow off some steam by sharing frustration with this lawmaker or that. The lack of any impactful, dare we say radical ideology was a function of network-mandated nonpartisanship; while most late-night fixtures leaned to the left, they could always be relied on to mock with equal opportunity. The Republicans got painted as dim-witted bullies, but the Democrats were ineffective and ineffectual – you choose which one’s more embarrassing.

That all-in-good-fun status quo can no longer stand, not when the stakes for the American people include the gutting of healthcare or the looming possibility of nuclear war. In an interview earlier this year, comedian Kate Berlant expressed her frustration with the limits of humor to spark change, saying: “Talking about things is not the same as doing them. I’m waking up to the reality that we haven’t done enough, and have to do so much more, so maybe that might separate us from the fun of making art.” With the tangible consequences of Trump’s political doctrine now coming to pass, late-night diatribes have taken on a more actionable bent.

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/05/late-night-comedy-p...

 

Please read: arts under attack from the rats...