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Anon:"We as Maori"! - Don't presume to speak for those for whom you do not hold a manatde, especially if you have so little mana that you post anonymously. You belittle yourself e hoa.Having had the unique displeasure of disregarding my own injuncture (albeit with the most commendable intentions of fairness) and suffered through a further excruciating quarter of an hour of Gormsby last week I can now pronounce emphatically and conclusively that Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby is worse than Melody Rules, and therefore, the worst New Zealand comedy programme ever to have screened on television. I say that not as a television reviewer of more than a decade, I do not say that as a viewer since the era of colour, I do not say that as a programme researcher, I do not say that as a writer of satire, I do not even say that as a New Zealander; I say it as a human being with a functioning brain.Giving "all characters and personalities a roasting" does not equate to humour. Gormsby was not roasted at all and his irrelevant lines about "coons" and "bungas" made the abortion sub-plot seem almost tactful. That show could not be more unfunny had it been set in a medical experimentation unit in a concentration camp where Gormsby could let fly with anti-semitic invective to your delight. If the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs all get a "roasting" does that make it humourous?My "homework" reveals that three white middle-aged Wellingtonian men are responsible for the Gormsby debacle - and it is with them that blame must primarily rest. I make those observations by way of an explanation not exoneration. The executives that approved it and scheduled it are as much victims as perpetrators. If a Bro Town writer was on board then more shame on them - they're going to have to leave it off their CV.When the Gormsby character launches into a tirade about brown people or "lezzies" for the umpteenth time do you find that funny? Do you find humiliating a teacher about her abortion an amusing situation? Do you find the parading around of a condom for quarter of an hour amusing? I credit even school children with the ability to distinguish between humour and whatever order of cultural abortion Gormsby represents.Gormsby is an ideological witch hunt of the past, prosecuted in the most virrulent and terse manner by incompetents. It's agenda is not humour it is political. That is the foremost reason it fails.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Ece
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
16 december 2014, 13:00:51
AUTHOR'S IP LOGGED
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