BAFTA LA Britannia Awards

[thunder]

I think he's funny, maybe you are too...

...old




Jason should get a new suit. (it still looks great, though )
Britannia awards 2011:
http://static.bafta.org/images/original ... -15271.JPG

Britannia awards 2013:
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/2013 ... EBcPMl.jpg

[Helen8]

What's age got to do with it? And how do you even know how old I am?
fruitbat just added to our ranks. Is she too old, too?


Not everybody gets Monty Python. I do and love them. I just don't get SBC. He's not my cuppa. It's more a matter of taste than age.

[fruitbat]

I think he's funny, maybe you are too...

...old

Now, that made me laugh.

[thunder]

Just teasing you...

[wolfsaver]

I agree with Helen.

[ln419]

I think the list may be a little longer than you think, Helen. You can add me too. Dick Van Dyke once famously spoke of his physical humor-his ability to do his prat falls, hurting HIMSELF, THOSE were chuckle-rs...but when it comes to intentionally hurting others, nothing really funny about being a bully, and getting an award and bragging about it to boot. Feh! ~e (He reminds me of the 3 Stooges, which I've always hated, but loved the Marx Bros...go figure people's taste in comedy!)

[laurielove]

It was a two fingers up to the entertainment establishment kind of thing. It wasn't really funny as such; it was anarchic, and was intended as such. He knows full well that people a) would have been initially shocked and b) would then have questioned their own reaction and whether they did actually find it funny and found that in itself uncomfortable. I suppose that is worthy of merit - forcing people to question how they react. We react with expressed humour - real and to cover embarrassment or shock - in situations in which we really should not. He likes to make people uncomfortable. It was a very deliberate and calculated thing. If he'd done that in Britain (even though it was a Brit-led event and the room was clearly full of Brits) people would have just rolled their eyes and sneered or pissed themselves laughing at his audacity. In LA, it would have had far more impact.

SBC is a brilliant man; some of his work I adore and am in awe of, other stuff I can't stomach. I have laughed and laughed and cringed and had to look away and laughed again. I quite like it when people make me do that.

[Helen8]

I found nothing funny about Borat. I thought it was mean-spirited.
People graciously open their home and invite a stranger from another land to dinner, and he brings his feces to the table. That's not humor; that's antisocial.

[laurielove]

But, like I said, it isn't strictly about conventional humour. It is about how we react to uncomfortable situations and it's about stretching us. I found parts of Borat very, very difficult and not remotely funny. But I certainly reacted to it. Laughter is, after all, a reaction to a situation which we find surprising, or familiar yet unusual, or testing - it is a thin line between finding something funny and finding something repulsive. We use humour to cope. This is an extension of that. We are not necessarily supposed to find it conventionally funny, but it is certainly supposed to evoke a reaction akin to humour - disgust, confusion perhaps.

[thunder]

I agree Laurielove. It's about laughing and coking on your laughter. Then you ask yourself why you are laughing...

But not everyone likes it, I understand.

[Helen8]

What made it repulsive for me was the fact that the people in those created situations were not actors playing along, they were real, unsuspecting people who were duped into thinking that this man was who he said he was, not someone who was purposely trying to embarrass them. He went out of his way to hurt those people . . . in the name of humor????

There are two camps on this topic (just slightly off topic) and neither will convince the other side otherwise. Kinda like politics these days. (Don't get me started there.)

[laurielove]

Have no fear, normal service will resume shortly.

<---- vacated.

Jason Isaacs is fit*.

There. I'm sure that is one thing on which we all agree.

*handsome, attractive, good-looking, pulchritudinous, easy-on-the-eye etc etc

[Helen8]

All of the above!