Monday - August 29, 2011

comedy with suicide bombers to air close to 9/11

This won’t be the first time this clip has been posted here, and there are a lot more at YT. Just enter FOUR LIONS and away ya go.

The BBC will be airing a series of programs on 9/11 and the aftermath as the article will make clear. Starting with a comedy about bumbling would be terrorists.

Now then, this shows all signs of being a very funny movie. I haven’t seen a clip that wasn’t.

I think the Brits are masters at slapstick comedy.  You’d have to go back to silent film in America with Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton to find anything close.
It isn’t that Hollywood can’t and hasn’t produced some great stuff.  But somehow, for reasons I can’t explain, the Brits seem to shine in this field. I guess I’ve been exposed over years to enough to make the comparison. 
I have just managed to get myself way off the topic I intended.
Which is, I think the timing of this show sucks.  Pardon the expression but, take a look.

Channel 4 to show suicide bombing comedy Four Lions to mark tenth anniversary of September 11

By PAUL REVOIR

Channel 4 is to spark outrage by airing a controversial comedy film about Muslim suicide bombers as part a season of programmes to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

In a move set to shock TV viewers, the broadcaster is to show Four Lions, the 2010 film by Brass Eye comedian Chris Morris, just days before the memorials take place for the terrorist outrages in New York.

Insiders at the Channel 4 have revealed that Morris was looking to create even more controversy by trying to air the film on the actual day of the anniversary, but bosses at the channel have resisted this.

READ MORE HERE, including the usual anti-American comments at the end of the article.

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