Posted on 12/16/2006 10:55:27 PM PST by beaversmom
Hollywood film-maker Oliver Stone shocked the audience at the British Comedy Awards with a bad-taste gag about the Suffolk murders.
The director of 'Platoon' and 'Born On The Fourth Of July' was attending the ceremony to present the best comedy film prize to Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.
Taking the stage, he quipped: "It's great to be back in England. I feel like Jack The Ripper days are back. Nothing ever changes here."
But his attempt at comedy was met with jeers and gasps of horror from the celebrity audience.
Realising his joke had bombed, Stone sneered: "You're a lovely crowd."
One audience member said: "If he was trying to be funny, then he failed.
"To make a joke like that when five young women have been murdered and the killer is still on the loose was in unbelievably bad taste."
The land that brought us George Galloway is lecturing US on bad taste?
They got another serial killer working that area again?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
He probably thought they were all part of a conspiracy to hide the fact that Prince Harry is really behind the murders...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Michael Richards could learn something from this....
"They're perpetually enraged."
And hopelessly retarded.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Oh, come on--whenever someone delivers a joke that bombs they respond exactly the same way. A comedian who delivers a bomb doesn't say "Oh, I'm so sorry I offended you." They make a gratuitous insult and move on.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I never thought I'd see the day...
FReepers....
DEFENDING Oliver Stone making a tasteless joke.
(I am without words)
I believe they prefer to be called "progressives"
I remember watching the Johnny Carson show one night back in the '70s, where Joan Rivers was doing a standup routine. She had the audience absolutely roaring with laughter, until the point where she said, "I'm so ugly that when I was born my mother took one look at me and demanded an abortion." A dead, stony silence immediately ensued.
Humor should take no sides. These days, all comedians seem interested in making sure the audience knows they hate Bush, and their jokes at the libs are of the "but I love him/her, anyway, and am just laughing at their foibles, which make them loveable" variety.
Hey, I think the guy is a creep...but the line between funny and tasteless can be a fine one, as a certain would-be comedian found out.
It tickles me to see them let their hair down and keep stubbing their toes. Have you noticed that they treat their electoral victory as license to misbehave? They are still mad, too.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
They are behaving as if there will never be any payback...something the Republicans did only after being office a number of years. These idjits haven't even take control and they're doing the End Zone In Your Face Dance already.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Indeed. If they invited a pig on stage, would they be aghast if it said "Oink"? What were they expecting from the likes of Oliver Stone?
The audience was silent for the reason that you suggest, but also because the joke was poorly constructed and NOT funny (no matter the feelings about abortion).
I thought it was funny. Nice to see that the Poms still can't take a joke from us Yanks.
I remember Joan Rivers as always being the perfect excuse to change the channel.
"can we tawwwwwkkk?!"
I didn't much care for her either.
"I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back!
I’m not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
I was such an ugly kid ... when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.
I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest."
No, not the US, just Stone.
Odd, isn't it? What have they against the British?
This is SOP for the left. First they pass laws making their citizenry totally helpless against assault -- denying them firearms ownership and right-to-carry, attempting to outlaw even kitchen knives and sending to prison those who defend themselves against home invasion. Murderers are coddled, given light sentences, counseling and never the execution they merit.
Predictably, violent criminals now see a golden opportunity to take whatever they want and kill whomever they please with little or no risk. Just as predictably, these 5 girls wind up dead. And how does the left respond to this sorry state of affairs that they themselves created? They respond with exaggerated moral indignation that anybody could crack a joke about these five hapless victims, the same ones that they themselves set up for the slaughter!
This has caused me great stress and pain. I'm calling a lawyer.
No.
This was the seventies. People didn't do jokes about crap like that back then. Not on the Carson show anyway.
True. I remember a Mexican comedian who got the bum's rush after 10 seconds into his bathroom humor routine. Willing to bet is was the shortest appearance of any comedian on the Carson Show.
In the mean time, "Sorry Fellahs"... We can't control them as our law prevents us from taking "reasonable measures" with these idiots.
We can't even convince Alex Baldwin to move to France after he promised us he'd leave. *sigh*
I read the other day that they seem to have another "Jack the Ripper" guy going after hookers. seriously. bad timing on Stone's part...
What were they expecting from the likes of Oliver Stone?
That's right.
You don't think Stone pays attention to the news, do you?
Thanks for that. He'll always be the Great Rodney Dangerfield to me.
Technically, he's not 'Still on the loose,' as the audience member said, since whoever the Ripper was, he's almost certainly been dead for decades. Still, Stone's joke was done in incredibly bad taste, and didn't even make much sense. It's good that the audience didn't take his crap.
If only he would have insulted President Bush he'd have been cheered instead of jeered.
"Technically, he's not 'Still on the loose,' as the audience member said"
Yes he is, the murders Stone was referring to have happened in the last three weeks and the murderer has not yet been caught.
Well, if it's on TV, it's because the "Applause" lights came on... While is why I always liked "The Man Show." Their light said "Clap You Bas**rds!" Well, that and for other reasons too...
Mark
It was a bad tasteless joke and to go on about "libs not having a sense of humor" or it's Britain's fault for their gun laws etc, is ridiculous. I don't think anyone here would be cracking jokes about the Atlantic City murders or any other recent murder case where the killer is still on the loose.
stone went to the j f'n kerry school of comedy!!!!!
the joke....well it sank like a stone!!!!
Stone is a movie director whose career is barely treading water. His last two films (World Trade Center and Alexander) grossed just enough, world wide, to recover their production costs and I'm not sure if that includes the advertising costs.
In other words, Stones financial backers may have made a bit of a return, but not enough to justify the risks taken.
Basically, the passions that animated his early success were based on his Vietnam experience and adoration of JFK. Those events are now an inspirational empty well and he is now older and less energetic and, from what I hear, has developed an excessive fondness for cocaine and teenage fashion models.
He better pick his next project with care. While the jury is still out, I think he is about one movie bomb short of being washed up in Hollywood.
I'll be 60 years old next month. I remember the bit. It was not accepted by the audience because of the subject matter (as you suggest) ................ AND because it was a poorly constructed joke. How does one "demand an abortion" AFTER the baby is born?
Get real. Joan Rivers blew it two different ways.
You'll soon shake with fear
Never knowing if I'm near
I'm sly and I'm shameless
Nocturnal and nameless
Except for "The Ripper"
Or if you like "Jack The Knife"
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