No pranks, thanks
Submitted by debritz on October 26, 2008 - 20:05.
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Given recent discussion on this blog about radio "gotcha" calls, this news item is timely. UK radio hosts Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross could face prosecution over obscene calls they made to 78-year-old former Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs (pictured, left) for their BBC program. Among other things, they left a series of messages on his answering machine claiming Brand had had sex with Sachs' granddaughter. Amazingly, Ross earns 6 million pounds a year and yet he and Brand can only come up with something so juvenile and hurtful to a now elderly, and apparently deeply religious man. Perhaps we should revise the old saying and replace sarcasm with prank calls when it comes to the lowest form of wit. |
October 27 update: The BBC has apologised to Sachs.
It says a lot about UK
It says a lot about UK radio.
Sadly it's not just in
Sadly it's not just in the UK.
I love a bit of edgy humour,
I love a bit of edgy humour, but personally I just find it a bit misogynistic to call somebody up and brag about your sexual prowess. Under any circumstances it's a bit ick, worse when you're talking about the victim's granddaughter!!!
If a female did this, they'd be called heartless, cold and probably a "slut" or worse.
Then again, Russell Brand is such a needy attention-seeker. If we just all ignore him, maybe he'll go away.
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