Do you think that there is too much swearing on TV these days?
I am not a prude. I swore as a schoolkid, as a teenager, as a soldier and all through my adult life.
I never swore in front of people that I didn't know, my parents or people I thought it might offend.
It has now become very common in most walks of life
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A lot of comedians rely on swearing to get a laugh.
In the end, swearing will not get a laugh because it will have become commonplace. What will they do then?
Any views?
niceboy Sat 06/09/08 01:21
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I agree......just dreadful, all the fekkin this and that on Father Ted! ;-))
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I know that the Answerbank site is notoriously slow, but surely it can't take 20 years for a post to appear, can it?
I write that because 20 years ago (when 'alternative comedy' was first finding its way) I'd have agreed with your statement that "A lot of comedians rely on swearing to get a laugh". These days, I'd say that it was probably less common.
As far as my own view is concerned, I'd like to align myself with the views of Stephen Fry. He strongly defends the use of swearing and opposes all censorship of it. At the same time, he's rarely heard to swear because he recognises and uses the versatility of the English language to express himself in other ways.
Chris
PS: Brits don't really know how to swear and curse anyway. Our continental cousins are far better at it. Whereas a Brit might just say "F--- off!' a Spaniard might say 'Me descargo in la leche de su zapatera madre!'. ('I sh!t in the milk of your prostitute mother'). It's got far more style and impact! ;-)
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Now, that is what I call an intelligent, constructive and fulfilling answer.
Congratulations to an exile from ChatterBank.
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My comment was aimed at <b< terambulan.
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ummmm, wot u on about Niceboy? What do you mean by exile?
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I mean, terambulan, that we tend to have different attitudes on different "topics" on answerbank.
You posted a chatterbank answer on a serious topic.
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Niceboy, I agree with you. Good, hilarious, slap your knees comedy does not require "below the belt terms and functions thereof". Also, most of the greatest movies ever produced did not rely upon blowing people up, car chases, and steamy bed-room antics......who the hell (swearing) is Stephen Fry?
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I too think there is less gratuitous swearing (and nudity) on tv now then in the 1970s, although I was bemused to hear bo****ks on Channel 4's Come Dine With Me at 5.45 one day this week.
Swearing in stand up is always such a disappointment to me - Lee Evans can be very funny, for example, but when he litters his routine with obscenities it just leaves me cold. Swear words just aren't funny.
I'm not offended by swearing - it just shows a lack of vocabulary and a small imagination in my view, but I do find it rather unnecessary.
It amuses me that many people can't express themselves in the written form without relying on swearing - FFS; PMSL; OMG and so on. I do wonder if they litter their speech in the same way regardless of whom they are addressing.
It is a big disappointment really. Young people spend more years at school than ever, and seem to get less education.
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I hate to hear people swear in general conversation. It seems very uneducated to me and almost childish as a need to 'show off.'...like when you hear a load of year 11's chatting together!
My sister's husband litters his conversation with expletives and is a really bad communicator, so this proves a point. It has also 'rubbed off' on her to an extent and sounds horrid.
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How about some Derek & Clive! Lol
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I find swearing in everyday conversation offesnive.
I don't believe that there is 'strong langauge' - there is language, and it has its times and its places.
The language \i wil use with my colleagues in an office is very different from the language I willl use with my family - it is about time and place, and that is the essential message.
I also find the aggresive way people speak to each other as a matter of course to be unpleasant - it' s simply not necessary.
Except on 'Jeremy Kyle of course' - there it is mandatory!
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There's a time and place for swearing. When a swear word is the right word in the right place it's absolutely fine. Perfect, even. To dismiss all swearing and suggest it represents a lack of vocabulary is limiting and usually a sign of snobbery.
When swearing is over-used, or used poorly, it does sound wrong. But you could say the same for absolutely any variant of language - from radio DJs over-using excitable superlatives ('incredible, amazing, brilliant new song from Snow Patrol') to academics waggling big words around because they're unable to use short, simple, effective words.
My personal bug-bear - and this is way worse than swearing - is when corporate drones over-use business-speak because they think it makes them sound clever.
"We intend to trial the methodology to see how it impacts our client-base. It represents a paradigm shift with which we can assist end users and facilitate the realisation of their objectives."
Oh, do f*ck off.
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No doubt swearing is neither good for the society nor for the future of our generations to come. It makes people simply rude. As far as TV is concerned I believe it is demand and supply situation. In one to one conversation we may oppose these things but unfortunately TV channels are showing what people want to watch. I have never been a keen supporter of Big Brother. Now what I hear from here and there more vulgar you are more you have chance to win it.
If people stop watching programmes that are not fit to their taste then producers would stop producing them. And that is exactly what is happening right now. More people want to watch that.
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"I have never been a keen supporter of Big Brother. Now what I hear from here and there more vulgar you are more you have chance to win it."
Actually, the opposite is true. Generally, the more polite ones end up winning.
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Quinlad - I will not argue on that and that really tells a bit more about what I said that I do not really watch that. But one thing is sure that people watch that not because of the one who is polite but for all the others who are rude. Am I right there?
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