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Someone Else Holding the Baby Blues
11/01/12
Back to the Future Too
30/12/11
Untold Cooper
29/12/11
A British Defence Against America
08/12/11
Not So Marvellous
07/12/11
We need to talk about Gervais
19/10/11
A Quarter Life Crisis
06/10/11
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
05/10/11
An open letter to George Lucas.
01/09/11
Burn Hollywood Burn
19/07/11
The Apprenticed
18/07/11
In Praise of ITV
03/07/11
Sick
28/06/11
Know the Drill
03/06/11
Modern Cinemas are Rubbish
02/06/11
My Tooth Story
26/05/11
Game of PWNS
24/05/11
West is West
19/05/11
Crime Crime Crime
17/05/11
The Bored Room
11/05/11
The Future Shock
09/05/11
The Worm That Eats Itself
06/05/11
The Life Atwatic
24/04/11
Driving Like A Dick
17/04/11
A Penny For My Thoughts
27/03/11
The Needle and the Damage Done
23/03/11
The Meaning of Life Part 1 : Birth
16/03/11
10 O Clock Dive
21/01/11
Falling off of the Witches Hat
19/01/11
Small Talk
18/01/11
The Waiting Game
13/01/11
2011
05/01/11
2010
31/12/10
Police Stop
30/12/10
Z Cast
29/12/10
The Crazy Adventures of Bastian and Atreyu
09/12/10
A note to my son or daughter.
08/12/10
Baby I can drive your car
22/10/10
A Good Society
10/09/10
The National Sport of Rubbernecking
09/09/10
Scanners 2
08/09/10
What mean Expendable?
07/09/10
Adventures in Babyhaving
06/09/10
Warning : Speculation
12/07/10
Adventures in driving
07/07/10
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
05/07/10
Pipe Up
23/04/10
More Bard News
21/04/10
Volcanoes and Elections
20/04/10
Grumpy Old Deathwish
29/03/10
The Apple
27/03/10
1987
26/03/10
The Long Bad Wednesday
25/03/10
Art for Art's Sake
23/03/10
Modern Slash
22/03/10
A Little Bit 'Special'
16/03/10
Dead Happy
05/03/10
Video Killed The Radio Stars
03/03/10
Sunday Zoo
01/03/10
Im Flugzeug
20/02/10
Radio Times
17/02/10
Intellectual Property
16/02/10
Happy Loveday
15/02/10
A Load of Pony
25/01/10
I Want To Lie Down With A Lion
18/01/10
'You Lecherous Moron'
17/01/10
A National Treasure
15/01/10
Snow
13/01/10
Friday The 13th
12/01/10
Steaks are High
11/01/10
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
16/11/09
BBC Bashing
10/11/09
Kenny Effing Powers!
09/11/09
No More Heroes
06/11/09
What I Did In My Holidays
04/11/09
Jellyneck
22/09/09
Can Buy Me Love
10/09/09
Memory Lane
27/08/09
Shitting Stars
26/08/09
The Life and Death of My Pop Star Life
25/08/09
Are You Being Offended?
24/08/09
My Generation
14/08/09
Home Alone 2 : Lost In 1939-1945
12/08/09
Home Alone
29/07/09
Context
28/07/09
Summer is a bummer
27/07/09
Time Waster
26/07/09
Yes, but how did it Happen??
25/07/09
He Must Have Some Agent
24/07/09
Day 2
23/07/09
A New Morning
22/07/09
The Sadness
21/07/09
Who Punishes The Punisher?
17/07/09
The New Blog
09/07/09
Baby, You're A Ritchie Man
21/05/09
An Englishman's Home Is His Castle
20/05/09
The Return
05/05/09
Double Trouble
06/04/09
It's The End Of The World As I Know It
05/04/09
Not Good Enough
30/03/09
Picture This
24/03/09
Size Matters
22/03/09
The Death of Mother Tongue
19/03/09
I Am Modern Man
18/03/09
Not Ready
16/03/09
Watched
10/03/09
Wired
08/03/09
The Running Man
26/02/09
Run, Fatboy, Run
25/02/09
Absent Friends
09/02/09
Snow Wonder
02/02/09
A New Breed of Hero
21/01/09
You Be The Judge
20/01/09
Take Hart
18/01/09
What's In A Name?
17/01/09
Don't Remake Me Over
16/01/09
Random Fluctuations In The Space Time Continuum!
08/01/09
The Future Is Already Written
07/01/09
The Shortest Story Ever Told
06/01/09
Demon Seed
03/01/09
2008
30/12/08
What's Cooking?
29/12/08
A Feel Good Story
21/12/08
The Curse
19/12/08
He's Not The Messiah!
15/12/08
Who throws a shoe?
14/12/08
Sneaky Christmas
10/12/08
Feeling Blu
09/12/08
SHT
07/12/08
Gategate
02/12/08
Comedy of Errors
30/11/08
For What It's Worth
27/11/08
Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
23/11/08
National Expression
20/11/08
A View To A Job
18/11/08
Last Bus Gone
17/11/08
Jungle Nobodies
12/11/08
The Cage Strain
11/11/08
A Common Practice In Poland
07/11/08
Close Encounters of the West Country Kind
06/11/08
David Brent Would Vote For Barack Obama
05/11/08
I am Legend
04/11/08
Setting The President In The Art World
03/11/08
My Word Is My Bond
02/11/08
11/01/12
Back to the Future Too
30/12/11
Untold Cooper
29/12/11
A British Defence Against America
08/12/11
Not So Marvellous
07/12/11
We need to talk about Gervais
19/10/11
A Quarter Life Crisis
06/10/11
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
05/10/11
An open letter to George Lucas.
01/09/11
Burn Hollywood Burn
19/07/11
The Apprenticed
18/07/11
In Praise of ITV
03/07/11
Sick
28/06/11
Know the Drill
03/06/11
Modern Cinemas are Rubbish
02/06/11
My Tooth Story
26/05/11
Game of PWNS
24/05/11
West is West
19/05/11
Crime Crime Crime
17/05/11
The Bored Room
11/05/11
The Future Shock
09/05/11
The Worm That Eats Itself
06/05/11
The Life Atwatic
24/04/11
Driving Like A Dick
17/04/11
A Penny For My Thoughts
27/03/11
The Needle and the Damage Done
23/03/11
The Meaning of Life Part 1 : Birth
16/03/11
10 O Clock Dive
21/01/11
Falling off of the Witches Hat
19/01/11
Small Talk
18/01/11
The Waiting Game
13/01/11
2011
05/01/11
2010
31/12/10
Police Stop
30/12/10
Z Cast
29/12/10
The Crazy Adventures of Bastian and Atreyu
09/12/10
A note to my son or daughter.
08/12/10
Baby I can drive your car
22/10/10
A Good Society
10/09/10
The National Sport of Rubbernecking
09/09/10
Scanners 2
08/09/10
What mean Expendable?
07/09/10
Adventures in Babyhaving
06/09/10
Warning : Speculation
12/07/10
Adventures in driving
07/07/10
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
05/07/10
Pipe Up
23/04/10
More Bard News
21/04/10
Volcanoes and Elections
20/04/10
Grumpy Old Deathwish
29/03/10
The Apple
27/03/10
1987
26/03/10
The Long Bad Wednesday
25/03/10
Art for Art's Sake
23/03/10
Modern Slash
22/03/10
A Little Bit 'Special'
16/03/10
Dead Happy
05/03/10
Video Killed The Radio Stars
03/03/10
Sunday Zoo
01/03/10
Im Flugzeug
20/02/10
Radio Times
17/02/10
Intellectual Property
16/02/10
Happy Loveday
15/02/10
A Load of Pony
25/01/10
I Want To Lie Down With A Lion
18/01/10
'You Lecherous Moron'
17/01/10
A National Treasure
15/01/10
Snow
13/01/10
Friday The 13th
12/01/10
Steaks are High
11/01/10
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
16/11/09
BBC Bashing
10/11/09
Kenny Effing Powers!
09/11/09
No More Heroes
06/11/09
What I Did In My Holidays
04/11/09
Jellyneck
22/09/09
Can Buy Me Love
10/09/09
Memory Lane
27/08/09
Shitting Stars
26/08/09
The Life and Death of My Pop Star Life
25/08/09
Are You Being Offended?
24/08/09
My Generation
14/08/09
Home Alone 2 : Lost In 1939-1945
12/08/09
Home Alone
29/07/09
Context
28/07/09
Summer is a bummer
27/07/09
Time Waster
26/07/09
Yes, but how did it Happen??
25/07/09
He Must Have Some Agent
24/07/09
Day 2
23/07/09
A New Morning
22/07/09
The Sadness
21/07/09
Who Punishes The Punisher?
17/07/09
The New Blog
09/07/09
Baby, You're A Ritchie Man
21/05/09
An Englishman's Home Is His Castle
20/05/09
The Return
05/05/09
Double Trouble
06/04/09
It's The End Of The World As I Know It
05/04/09
Not Good Enough
30/03/09
Picture This
24/03/09
Size Matters
22/03/09
The Death of Mother Tongue
19/03/09
I Am Modern Man
18/03/09
Not Ready
16/03/09
Watched
10/03/09
Wired
08/03/09
The Running Man
26/02/09
Run, Fatboy, Run
25/02/09
Absent Friends
09/02/09
Snow Wonder
02/02/09
A New Breed of Hero
21/01/09
You Be The Judge
20/01/09
Take Hart
18/01/09
What's In A Name?
17/01/09
Don't Remake Me Over
16/01/09
Random Fluctuations In The Space Time Continuum!
08/01/09
The Future Is Already Written
07/01/09
The Shortest Story Ever Told
06/01/09
Demon Seed
03/01/09
2008
30/12/08
What's Cooking?
29/12/08
A Feel Good Story
21/12/08
The Curse
19/12/08
He's Not The Messiah!
15/12/08
Who throws a shoe?
14/12/08
Sneaky Christmas
10/12/08
Feeling Blu
09/12/08
SHT
07/12/08
Gategate
02/12/08
Comedy of Errors
30/11/08
For What It's Worth
27/11/08
Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
23/11/08
National Expression
20/11/08
A View To A Job
18/11/08
Last Bus Gone
17/11/08
Jungle Nobodies
12/11/08
The Cage Strain
11/11/08
A Common Practice In Poland
07/11/08
Close Encounters of the West Country Kind
06/11/08
David Brent Would Vote For Barack Obama
05/11/08
I am Legend
04/11/08
Setting The President In The Art World
03/11/08
My Word Is My Bond
02/11/08
| Context The "new offenders" of standup comedy? 28/07/09 |  | ||||||||||||||||
| Context is a funny thing. You can take anything out of context and make someone look or sound terrible.
Like the editors on reality television are able to take situations and show them out of context to suit their needs. Before the advent of television and video editing equipment, journalists had been utilising this technique for a long while. As an avid listener to the Collings and Herrin Podcast. I am well aware of the irony Herring employs in his humour. He will often make statements that when taken out of context would sound awful. But there in lies the rub dear readers. In context, Herring becomes a vessel and mocks exactly the kind of people who would take such jokes out of context. Sadly, that is just what has happened. In his piece entitled "The new offenders of stand up comedy" Brian Logan illustrates perfectly on how to miss the point. Logan says, "This year, veteran comic Richard Herring is sporting a Hitler moustache for his show, Hitler Moustache, in which he argues "that racists have a point". But, as Herring himself argues in his blog, "It is true that I do utter those words, but it is followed by a smart and interesting routine about our attitudes to race and ethnicity and then about 40 minutes of me railing against the BNP and encouraging people to stand up to fascism because human beings are all the same and shouldn't be judged by their race, gender or sexuality. But by not mentioning any of that then it inevitably makes it look like I am seriously examining whether there's something to racism, rather than taking a belief that is opposite to my own and then examining it in order to demonstrate its invalidity. Logan hasn't seen the show, but I told him enough about it for him to know this. To ignore that is a misrepresentation of some magnitude." This is irresponsible journalism on an almost Phillip Glass degree and action should be taken immediately by the Guardian to withdraw this piece as soon as possible and make the appropriate apologies. The upsetting fact remains that Herring, and the other comics taken out of context in this piece, are now tarred (Ironically) with the racist brush. With the Edinburgh Comedy Festival just around the corner, this is the last thing they need, and may seriously harm their ticket sales. If you want to hear the truth about Herring or indeed any of the comics mentioned, why not see a show, in context. I am sure those of you in any doubt of Herring's ethics would be pleased to find it is all done in the right way and rallies against and makes a total mockery of ignorance and prejudice. This is a good place to send any complaints. In other news, I watched the Martin Bashir/Michael Jackson interview last night. I didn't watch it when it first went out, so the only facts I had were taken from Bo Selecta! I had heard that Bashir made life uncomfortable for Jackson, but it struck just me how much it wasn't an interview. It was sensationalist clap-trap. Bashir asks Jackson a question about his past that quite rightly, he a)doesn't want to answer and b)doesn't want to dwell on. Bashir takes this as an opportunity to dig deeper and put Jackson on the spot and, at times, make him cry. Whilst I agree that this method of interview is effective with politicians and the like, with a man who is clearly mentally ill, it comes across as bullying. I felt more sorry for Jackson in that documentary than anything else. Bashir to me, seemed like a camera man at a car crash, rather than assisting, he was seeking the gore shots. He had his rabbit in the head lights and just put his foot on the gas. It just all felt distasteful. Jackson was obviously just being a child. Coming over all shy when he was pushed about his dancing (like a kid at Christmas) and showing off in a posh shop about what he owned. My PC still hasn't got a delivery date. Fuck. Follow Ted (MrJohnRain) on Twitter
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