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Who finds cruel comments funny?
Posted: 5th Apr 2011
I remember first hearing what Frankie Boyle said about Katie Price’s son Harvey last year and being very shocked and thinking his comments were very cruel.
I understand that Frankie Boyle’s act is about being ‘shocking’ but I think he crossed the line into just being cruel. I really felt for Harvey because saying that about a disabled child is just unfair. What has Harvey ever done to him?
Mencap’s research into bullying found that 8 out of 10 children with a learning disability get bullied. Now Harvey Price is one of them, and he got bullied by an adult on national television. I was bullied at school because I have a learning disability and I don’t know how anyone could find that funny. Maybe bullies find it funny. I don’t know.
I praise Ofcom for finding that Channel 4 and Frankie Boyle breached the guidelines. It would be good if they apologised, but from what Channel 4 has said to the media it doesn’t look like that will happen. I am disappointed that after our ‘R-word’ campaign last year that Channel 4 is still showing programmes like this and defending themselves for doing it.
The newspapers have reported that the chief executive of Channel 4 said yes to the joke about Harvey going out on TV.
I don’t know if he knows anyone with a learning disability, but maybe if he got to know someone, he might understand why the joke was so cruel and would say no next time.
What do you think?
Comments
Hi, I made a complain to channel 4 about Frankie Boyle’s jokes on disabled people and even worse children. I have not sympathy for Katie Price and I think she deserves when some comedian makes fun of her. I’m not saying on using her disabled son as the arrow to hit the target(Katie). Parents with vulnerable and disabled children should give a good role model to protect them from people like Frankie Boyd and other predators.
Grown up adults who have a full vocabulary shouldn’t have to resort to cheap laughs at the expense of people less fortunate . It just show how ignorant they really are and that they need educating on how cruel the world can be towards people with any type of disability who arent deemed normal . They need to show a bit of respect then maybe children will follow their example.
I don’t think that Ch4 care given that one of the opening lines of last night’s Campus was a guy calling some one ‘mong faced’. It was in the context of him being shown to be an ass but I think that the constant barrage of negative, cynical, cruel characters encourages a climate where negativity and negative language towards others is deemed fun, normal and acceptable.