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[JMO]

Ah that may have come accross wrong but I was actually responding to this..

[bejarano-korea]

Fair dos JMO, I think you are very fortunante because you can look at Ben Elton with hindsight (I wish I could have had that during the time) and see his current standing as an establishment *beep*. At the time for us who didn't have anyone who spouted against the establihment, Elton was a lifeline.

The UK, (and defientely the Irish Republic) has changed so much in the past 20 years and especially in the focus of the media. The printed media was in the UK was mostly controlled by Thatcherite Rupert Murdoch and champagne socialist Robert Maxwell, 4 TV channels with 2 of them being goverment owned, no access to worldwide media apart from what we were given, unlike today. Thus the people were more easily controlled and exploited. I still wonder about what we can access from the world today.

So to look at Ben Elton you need to have been around the time of when he was telling these jokes, I'm not being patronising when I say this but at 23 would you really understand a society that was institutionally racist,
blinded and lied to by the media and I'll prove right now, Band Aid and Live Aid came about through the BBC. Before that, no-one gave a monkeys about Africa and the many famines that took place till the BBC reported it with a sympathetic slant and the people rose and took action.

Nowadays, people can access whats going on in the world and disasters such as the tsuanmi touch the people an they act... there are a million and one media outlets and when the goverement gave a pathetic half a million pounds to the clean up effort in SE Asia, they were made to dig deeper in their pockets as people could see from the internet the disaster it was and gav from their own pockets.

[JMO]

Yea that's cool. I could probably do with putting myself in other people's shoes a bit. Alot has changed in 20 years. I think I only realise that when I look at the old pictures of my older brothers and sisters from the 70s(my oldest bro is 35...im the baby) how much ireland has changed. It's easy to take for granted how it is now.

I'll fire up the You Tube and give Ben Elton another shot, although I'll probably end up putting on Blackadder again though..one of my fave shows.

[bejarano-korea]

[JMO]

"We applied for planning permission in the old testament" Ha!!

I actually saw Tommy in the town where he was born(Carndonagh, donegal) in probably the smallest show he did in a long long time. He was excellent.

My favorite Irish comedian at the moment is Dylan Moran who I love from Black Books but is also a pretty good stand up.

edit: change vids.

This part 1 and 2 from his amnesty gig in Dublin and it really is a tour de force, especially part 2..so watch it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJmnyhBT0

and part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4l6adI3quk

[Big_Bird]

[JMO]

Yea Moran is gas..