Comments on: Julian Morrow: “Sorry but….”

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:46:58 +0000

does it really matter if it wasn’t serving society? It was funny that’s the point of it. And Morrow is right, if it doesn’t affect you, you have no right to be offended. People need to get off their high horse and have a laugh once in a while.

By: Gil

Gil — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:10:49 +0000

The skit wasn’t the biggest problem – it was the other 28 minutes surrounding it. The Chaser just wasn’t hitting the target in any of their skits anymore.

By: tpeck

tpeck — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:24:50 +0000

I can’t say I was impressed by this lecture. Morrow seems to be arguing for the right to be inappropriate. Well, OK. That’s always guaranteed to get applause and a few smirks from the boys in the back row. But satire is, by definition, expected to have some underlying elevated purpose to it, right? The Chaser wasn’t usually satirical in the sense that it somehow served society. Why do people keep praising it as satire? It was just an adult version of Jackass. Sure, I laughed at the Chasers – even the Make A Wish gag. It didn’t offend me. But now he’s choosing who he’ll be saying sorry to! That’s got to be offensive. Maybe he should start by being sorry to the American jokesters he swiped the Make A Wish gag from in the first place. Sorry, Morrow, I was underwhelmed.

By: Paula

Paula — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:54:08 +0000

The skit was extremely sick, disgustingly offensive, apallingly cold-hearted, obscenely deranged, and outrageously cruel. It was totally unacceptable for a civilised, decent, compassionate society!

But as we no longer live in such a society — what else could one expect? Nothing is shocking any more, because the world has lost it’s heart and soul! God have mercy on us all…

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:15:12 +0000

@sweep Australia unlike USA has no constitutional freedom of speech.

By: sweep

sweep — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:28:03 +0000

re: freedom of speech – that would be the freedom of speech that comes from living in a democratic nation, not a dictatorship. just because americans used the term doesn’t make it exclusively american.

By: sweep

sweep — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:23:25 +0000

it wasn’t “anything”-ist. it was bad taste humour. which can be hilarious. as this skit was.

good on julian for explaining his thoughts on it – which seem to echo so many of ours – so articulately.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:40:57 +0000

@ant. To quota, BSG – ‘and so say we all’.

The problem is that we are quite happy to poke fun at other groups as long as we aren’t affected or the butt of the joke.

Then again, there are those people who just love to be offended so they can get on their high horse. Maybe I am one of those too? After all, I’m offended by those who get offended.

By: Paull

Paull — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:03:24 +0000

@Daniel, Tris, KFed & Benjamin: I just couldn’t resist misinterpreting the word.

Actually the Labor government in Aust isn’t nearly as left-wing/ liberal as the Democratic party in america, nor is the Liberal party as conservative as the american Republican party. Both parties sit on the conservative side with liberal a bit more to the right (but not as much as america) and labor a bit to the left.

By: steven g

steven g — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:51:18 +0000

D-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:51:11 +0000

What freedom of speech? This isn’t America.

@paul I do believe @stephen g means the literal meaning of the word liberal, not the party.

By: KFed

KFed — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:43:35 +0000

@Paull So you decided not to look it up in the dictionary then?

By: Tris

Tris — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:32:39 +0000

Paull, maybe you should look up the meaning of the word “liberal” first.
And for the record, WA has been run by the Liberal party since last year.

By: ant

ant — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:03:29 +0000

Good on Morrow, well said, and no weasel words or back downs. What a crazed storm of ill-informed hysteria that sketch generated. I think that many of the sanctimonious squawkers hadn’t even seen it before they became outraged. I also suspect that the commercial media, stinging from The Chaser’s many hits on them, fanned it up.

Now we have all these sacrosanct things that apparently we can’t lampoon, question or, in this case, use to make a point. We are turning into a nation of mealy-mouthed whiners! More strength to The Chaser.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:02:38 +0000

@Paull, I think steven g might have been referencing to the fact that the Liberal Party is conservative and the Labor party are liberal. It is strange that liberalism is left-wing yet the Liberal Party are right-wing.

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:48 +0000

@Paull: don’t wanna rehash a stale topic, but the sketch did not in any way “target” any group nor did it “make fun of their differences”.

The controversy over that sketch still amazes me.