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Chaser's War on Everything - In Due Season

Can you see how these kinds of jokes, making fun of terminally ill kids, can be hurtful to someone who has had a sick child, or even lost a child?

You want to do what you can for them, to ease what might very well be the last tiny part of their lives... and then someone mocks you for it. Attacking people who can't defend themselves. Not cool.

To be fair, there was an apology, and I do think some of the Chasers really didn't want to do that sketch.

Not all sketches will be funny to all people. But as I said, for me and a lot of other people, that was so far over the line it was a dot on the horizon.
 
I've mostly forgotten the sketch, but weren't they making fun of the idea of Make a Wish than actually making fun of terminally ill children?
 
firehawk12 said:
I've mostly forgotten the sketch, but weren't they making fun of the idea of Make a Wish than actually making fun of terminally ill children?
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Considering the last line? No. They had done a joke in a satirical newspaper years earlier about unrealistic wishes and gotten away with it, this time it was the fact that they had used the line about why bother cause the kids are going to die that tipped it over the edge.
 
Yeah. I'm just glad that they're getting a chance to do a blowout season.

It's funny, because there was an equivalent show here on CBC called Air Farce that ran like 20 years that just ended... and I can't say that it moved me that much, mostly because they were stuck in the 90s for the most part (or Canadians are too polite I suppose). Chaser ending, on the other hand, seems like a genuine loss.
 
I hope in the last episode they throw caution to the wind, and just do the jokes they have been holding back on, just to go out with a bang.

of course thinking about it, they probaly wont be allowed to do that now, if Make a Realistic Wish had not happened they might have been able to.
 
Hah, I guess they probably have ABC overlords watching over them... sort of like the gross overreaction that happened in Britain after that... longhaired dude got in trouble. Whatever his name was. :lol:
 
firehawk12 said:
Hah, I guess they probably have ABC overlords watching over them... sort of like the gross overreaction that happened in Britain after that... longhaired dude got in trouble. Whatever his name was. :lol:
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That's what I said, seems like the aussie Manuelgate. And don't mention it, you'll set wamdue off.
 
Oh crap, Russell Brand. :lol:

I think we need someone in Canada to do something wacky to hit the British-English trifecta of overreaction... too bad the most edgy thing that happens on our TV is some dude deciding to swim in the PM's pool. :p
 
firehawk12 said:
Oh crap, Russell Brand. :lol:

I think we need someone in Canada to do something wacky to hit the British-English trifecta of overreaction... too bad the most edgy thing that happens on our TV is some dude deciding to swim in the PM's pool. :p
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To be fair, if you had a overreaction over there it would probably about someone not being polite enough...
 
I never watched this show but after watching "The Secret" and the this clip from the Chaser's show a couple of years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo

...I found it to be one of the most hilarious and spot-on parodies I've ever seen.

I believe they even got sued over that one too by the old guy actor and they won that lawsuit, IIRC.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
firehawk12 said:
Hah, I guess they probably have ABC overlords watching over them... sort of like the gross overreaction that happened in Britain after that... longhaired dude got in trouble. Whatever his name was. :lol:
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That's what I said, seems like the aussie Manuelgate. And don't mention it, you'll set wamdue off.
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there is no need to debate if Russel Brand and Johnathon Ross was in the wrong in this thread but yeah there are some similarities between the two incidents.
 
While I really dislike 'practical joke' humour, where any show (Chaser, Ali G etc) get an unsuspecting member of the public and make them look like a complete dunce, I have to say that beyond that the Chasers have been damned funny.

Keep in mind before WoE, they had a different show, CNNNN, and that was funnier in my opinion, sticking it to 24 hour news cahnnels, and before that, their starting point was their newspaper, the Chaser.

I think you find the Chasers will come back in a different format, and maybe even in a different country, like the US or UK. They won't be gone long.

Then we might get more award winning satire like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWtWz_aGyk
:devil:
 
Come back as in someone will take their format? Part of me thinks that the show as it stands can only exist because it's publicly funded... which means it probably wouldn't work in the US anyway.
 
I think Kevin Rudd's election hurt them somewhat, he's just too boring to make fun of. Their stalking of Howard was always good for a laugh on the other hand.
 
Comedy Central has Daily Show and Colbert, both of which sort of do a lighter version of what Chaser does.

As for the BBC... I don't know if I've seen a British sketch show in a long time.
 
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