In twenty years, will Ross apologise like Letterman?

December 22, 2011 7:48 AM

I thought we had got past all this. England's answer to Craig Ferguson, Jonathan Ross, invites musical comedian Tim Minchin onto his ITV 1 Christmas chat show, and Minchin writes a song for the show. After legal, compliance, and the application of a Daily Mail filter, it's cut from the broadcast tomorrow. But Minchin had a copy. And put it on Youtube. The crime? Comparing Jesus to Woody Allen.

In Minchin's own words:

Yesterday I wrote a big rant about comedy and risk and conservatism; about the fact that my joke has no victim; about sacredness (oh God, not again!) and about the importance of laughing at dumb but pervasive ideas. But I trashed it because it's boring and takes it all too seriously. It's hardly the end of the world.
But I have to admit I'm really fucking disappointed.
It's 2011. The appropriate reaction to people who think Jesus is a supernatural being is mild embarrassment, sighing tolerance and patient education.
And anger when they're being bigots.
Oh, and satire. There's always satire.

posted by ewan (3 comments total)

Double. And...opening with "I thought we had got past all this" may not have been ALL that adviseable, too.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:51 AM on December 22, 2011

A third one in a row would make for a neat unholy trinity, if anyone has the nerve.
posted by Curious Artificer at 7:53 AM on December 22, 2011

Five minutes late.
posted by JHarris at 7:54 AM on December 22, 2011