Mexicans are lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight...

[Gob]

Hey Daisy, we're waiting eagerly for this show here...

No topic is off limits when Good News Week returns on Monday.

With the recent Queensland and Victorian floods, the WikiLeaks scandal and the unrest in Egypt there's plenty of material for host, comedian Paul McDermott to work with.

And he says despite many news events being quite traumatic, they're never off limits.

"It depends on how well you approach them," he says.

"Communication is the most validation humans can have."

In fact, he says, comedy often provides a vehicle to talk about subjects people may find difficult.

"If you make fun of things then you can talk about them," he said

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv- ... 1adfl.html

[Gob]

Dear god, they're all at it...

Plans for Stephen Fry to film part of a documentary series in Japan have been shelved after complaints about nuclear bomb jokes in his quiz show "QI".

The programme featured a discussion about a man who survived the blasts at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The Japanese Embassy accused the BBC of making light of the attacks, which killed up to 250,000 civilians.

The BBC, which later apologised, said the cancellation of the filming was due to the "strength of feeling" in Japan.

The offending episode of QI was broadcast last month and featured a discussion about Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the only person known to have survived both bombings.

Mr Yamaguchi was burnt in the Hiroshima explosion - only to travel by train to Nagasaki to be caught in the second attack three days later.

During the programme Stephen Fry and two fellow comedians discussed Mr Yamaguchi's survival.

A Bomb blast The blast at Nagasaki. Over 180,000 people died in the two bombings.

Alan Davies suggested an A-bomb had landed on Mr Yamaguchi and "bounced off".

And Stephen Fry expressed amazement that the Japanese trains were still running after the blast.

The episode prompted a complaint to the BBC from the Japanese Embassy who accused the broadcaster of making light of the attacks.

The BBC responded by apologising, acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject for Japanese viewers.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12361873

[Gob]

I suppose it was inevitable....

A Mexican has instructed lawyers to bring a test case against Top Gear after her countrymen were branded 'lazy, feckless and flatulent' on the hit show.

Iris de la Torre, a jewellery design student in London, is bringing the claim under a new equality law. Her lawyers claim it could cost the BBC £1million in damages.

They have demanded the hit BBC1 motoring show is taken off the air and an investigation made into the comments.

The lawyers, Equal Justice, have previously taken action against Channel 4 over comments about Indian actor Shilpa Shetty, made on Celebrity Big Brother.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z1CwbUkqbR

[Sean]

We can add greedy to the list then...

[loCAtek]

in my opinion repeat racist jokes about Mexicans whose country has been declining into the horror of a failed state. Just as it is bad form to makes jokes about blacks eating watermelons, turning white when they're scared, and being lazy when the background is of great poverty and suffering.

Making jokes about the US, France, or the UK who are on the whole prosperous, respected cultures and powerful countries would be a counter-example.

But that is just my opinion.



yrs,
rubato

ThX rubato, I truly grieve for my people's homeland but 'Top Gear' didn't touch on that, they just went for the usual stereotype. ...which I think came from how Mexicans will nap during the hottest part of the day, instead of being foolish enough to tire themselves out too quickly, and not be able to work long into the night.

Always makes me laff at wimpy jueros

[rubato]

We can add greedy to the list then...

Demanding 8$/hour for stoop labor is "greedy"?

Right.

yrs,
rubato

[loCAtek]

Well, she currently resides in the United Kingdom.; so we can be specific and call her a greedy Brit.

[rubato]

Calling Mexicans "lazy" is like calling Swedes "swarthy".

yrs,
rubato

[Daisy]

There is a VAST difference between caricature and portraiture, wouldn't you agree?

[rubato]

There is a VAST difference between caricature and portraiture, wouldn't you agree?

Caricature exaggerates features which are actually present. Calling Mexicans "lazy" is just ignorant. It is like calling Nigerians "blonde" or Russians "brightly optimistic", it is merely a stupid comment made by a racist.

I've spent time in Mexico and if you want to call their bus drivers homicidal idiots, that would be true. If you said their public officials are corrupt and happily take bribes that would be true too. If you said that public construction was madly poorly executed that would be true as well. But I've spent a lot of days working alongside Mexicans here in the US and nobody can ever call them lazy. That's just not true. That's a lie.



yrs,
rubato

[loCAtek]

There is a VAST difference between caricature and portraiture, wouldn't you agree?

Oh yea, caricature is quite entertaining. I can laff at it, as I can laff at myself.

[Gob]

Despite earlier apologising for the show's 'feckless' comments, the loud mouth host then ended the column with his own joke about Mexicans: 'Mexico doesn't have an Olympic team... because anyone who can run, jump or swim is already across the border.'

[loCAtek]

I pretty sure he's stolen that joke, I know I've heard it somewhere before ...

Around the shop, we're always kidding each other about being slow or lazy. It's a common way to break the work tension, by mock-snapping, "Ah COM'ON, Luis!" or "COM'ON, Loca!" <clap-clap>

I called a guy a donkey, the other day. He was pushing a really, heavy cart of 3/4 in. plate to my station to weld, and really putting his back into it. Rather than just watch, I walked up to help by pretending to whip'em and shouting,
"JAH BURRO!"

He responded with one of the best brays, I've heard outside of real donkey!

[Gob]

Scenes in which Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May poked fun at Mexicans will be cut before the show is broadcast in the United States next week.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv- ... 1ap2p.html

[thestoat]

Mexicans are lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight...

What is wrong with being flatulent?

Sean - yes, the Welsh do shag sheep. Then we sell the carcass the the English and you eat them. Sperm flakes ... yum yum

Top Gear in the UK is incredibly popular, partly because it is so irreverent. If you look on facebook you'll see almost half a million people like the "Jeremy Clarkson for PM" page.

Making jokes about the US, France, or the UK who are on the whole prosperous, respected cultures and powerful countries would be a counter-example.

Surely you are not including France in that list. It's a typo, yes?

[loCAtek]

Does the UK get Mind of Mencia?

[thestoat]

I've never seen him, Lo, but I don't watch much TV anyway. I thought he was amusing in parts but didn't understand some of the jokes (bit too American biassed perhaps).

[Lord Jim]

What is wrong with being flatulent?

If it's me, nothing at all....

Unless of course you object to the scent of fresh cut roses....

Surely you are not including France in that list. It's a typo, yes?