Amazing Ben Miller Talk on Censorship

Amazingly intelligent and funny comedian  Ben Miller, most famous at the moment for his sketch show Armstrong and Miller and for playing braces toting paper pusher with a hear Lester in ITV’s Primeval series spoke out twice this week regarding the current level of censorship in comedy and general reaction and offence.

Comedy means a hell of a lot to me, and the rest of Guardian Force too and having someone as genuinely clever as Miller speak my views out there really means a lot and more than anything I hope this wakes a few people up.

Take a quick watch of Miller’s brief, but very well put together, talk on censorship in comedy,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8329463.stm

Sorry I can’t embed this one :(

Not only is Miller’s rant funny as hell but it cuts amazing well to the point. I am not going to go off into my own rant as tempting as that might be, Stephen Fry taught me that it’s a mark of bad journalism and to be honest Miller has already perfectly summed up my feelings.

The perception of offensiveness is getting out of hand and pretty soon we wont even be able to enjoy good comedy at all. He speaks a little more in this panel interview although its disappointingly short.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8330089.stm

One thing Miller does not directly mention which needs putting out there is this, stop getting offended because the fucking paper told you too. It’s just plain sad.

Formulate your own opinion and for fucks sake understand that what you find offensive many people find fun, but most important of all get over yourselves.

Unfortunately I am more than aware that most people reading this are already sensible enough not to need that advice, catch 22 and all that eh? A huge thanks to Ben Miller for doing this, he is putting himself in the firing line for the morons and it’s a brave thing to do.

Hope you enjoyed the videos let us know what you think with the comments!

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