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The Friday Question: Sponsored Celeb Stalking!
122 CommentsMay 22, 2009 – 9:24 am
With the earth-shattering news that Katie Price (a.k.a. Jordan) and that imbecile she’s married to have split up, we here at your Super Funshine WWM are worried for the future of one of the UK’s least-regarded channels – ITV2. Coming just weeks after the tragic death of the pig-ignorant racist Jade Goody which rocked Living TV to its very foundations, Price and her monkey’s split is yet another hammer-blow to broadcasters who have, over the last few years at least, come to rely on the exploits of the dregs of the celebrity world for its ratings. You have to worry for these low rent broadcasting houses, with one of their stars currently six feet under whilst the ITV2 pair are busy pretending to hate one another for money in the national press.
We have a question:
NewsGush: Jade Musical Will ‘Definitely Happen’
270 CommentsApril 28, 2009 – 9:07 am
This story’s from last week, but worth mentioning.
Reading about the Jade Musical concept, I can’t help but remember The Tall Guy with Jeff Goldblum and the fact that the protagonist starred in ‘Elephant – The Musical’, a song and dance bonanza about John Merrick, The Elephant Man. More recently, I recall Chris Morris had to heavily edit his ‘Sutcliffe – The Musical’ gag from Brass Eye because it was so close to the bone that it had the potential to upset.
These ideas were funny because they married tragic or horrific stories with the musical medium – the most bombastic, overblown entertainment format available
So it’s bizarre that the only reaction to the Jade musical is a general shrug. Nobody seems to be disturbed by an idea that is, in principle, pretty shocking considering they only just buried the girl in a haze of money-making and exploitation.
Personally, I’m one of the shruggers. Never one to shy away from the sweet scent of enterprise, I’ve come up with a tune suitable for the section where Jade makes borderline racist comments to a Bollywood star. Sing this to the tune of Lollipop – and it just kind of works…
OH!
Poppadom, poppadom, Shilpa Shilpa poppadom!
You can can hear it, right?
It sounds good, yes?
At first it seemed strange that there were so few, if any sick jokes going around in the immediate aftermath of Jade’s death, as is traditional. At first you had to wonder why didn’t she suffer the same bout of bad-taste humour as Freddy Mercury or Princess Diana. Now, and with the announcement of this musical, it becomes clear that the public have subconsciously realised they have no need of cathartic, questionable humour to cope with the loss of life. Max Clifford and Danny Hayward are busy constructing the biggest, sickest and most revolting posthumous sick joke in the history of dubious comedy.
Kerching!
