Comedy Catastrophe

Well it's all kicking off here again with the whole 'whats acceptable in comedy' debate, and as you may expect I'm here at the front line doing my bit in support. I'm not going to stand by and watch as my country goes to pot at the hands of some foul mouthed comedians. It's not on. It all started when Russel Grant left an obscene answer phone message on Del Boy's mobile. Which, although it was a while ago, is still very much a sore subject for me. I mean voicemail is hard enough to work out as it is, the last thing you need after dealing with the whole automated keypad stuff is to be faced with a load of abuse. It's ridiculous. So I'm standing up and saying no to offensive comedy, I'm trying to get us back to the good old days of gentle comedy such as Morcambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies and 999: Life Savers, good quality programming that didn't offend anyone.

I think the majority of the blame lies at the feet of the BBC, you know, don't get me wrong, they do some cracking programming, my day never really starts until Cash in The Attic. But that said I think they're standards are slipping, it's even seeping into none comedy shows now, I was watching an episode of the Dog Whisperer the other day and some of the language coming out of that fella's mouth was unbelievable. 'Bitch' this, 'bitch' that, it was absolutely ridiculous, the dog didn't deserve that. I even thought I heard Huw Edwards say 'fuck the queen' once but in retrospect I think he just said 'cook with steam' it was a report about healthier eating or something but still. The BBC needs to stop pandering to the lowest common denominator by producing crude, unnecessary, insulting rubbish. They need to start by getting rid of those testosterone fueled panel shows, it's just silly little boys trying to say the most offensive jokes. The same thing happened with Call My Bluff, that was nice enough to begin with but then Sandi Toksvig starts sprouting off all these blatant lies and it just became a farce. Luckily they cancelled it after Bob Holness said a racist joke so at least they learnt their lesson then.

So I am proud to announce the formation of the charity Unkind Comedy Not Tolerated or UCNT for short. With this there will be the start of the 'Clean Not Mean' campaign, this is going to attempt to sort through the tide of unsuitable comedy so we are left with the nice ones. We are going to do this by trying to establish a law that says any new joke needs to be Ok'ed by a panel of judges including David Cameron, Trisha and the editor of the Daily Mail. I think in this climate of controversy these are the only sound-minded people we can turn to, please support me in this fight and remember 'Be A Friend: Don't Offend.'

Jerry x