slightly OT: BUT NEEDs to be said

[Colin Blackburn]

On Mon,  5 Apr 2004 21:50:07 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com>  
wrote:


> People have very real reason to fear MPFC: Highly educated/wealthy  
> family background/private
> school/Oxford/Cambridge people jumping about and acting 'zany' and  
> coming up
> with all sorts of useless sketches designed to appeal strictly to the  
> liberal-elite
> is a fairly repulsive artistic concept especially if you do not find the  
> style
> of MPFC even remotely amusing.
>
> Unfortunately this formula (hiring these sorts of people) was to become  
> the
> bed rock of BBC alternative comedy for years to come (Ben Elton, Steven  
> Fry
> etc etc) and remember people in the UK did not have the choice about  
> this crap
> as it came out of their licence fee (that is another subject)

Ben Elton went to Manchester Uni, in a northern industrial city, a far cry  
 from Oxbridge.

We did have a choice we could watch commercial ITV, unfortunately it's  
crap.

Colin
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