Sunday, June 25, 2006

Blunt, insulting, personnal attack but humourous


I really like watching Comedy Central right here and watch those stand-up comedian, talk show host and programs make fun of stars, the president, the mexican, the Yankees. Pretty insulting and blunt sometime but it absolutely tickle your funny bone. I find myself laughing out loud at the agony of my colleagues everytime we watch Comedy Central during guard duties.

Good thing they got freedom of speech right here so people like me can say "Bush got a farty pants" or "The Clinton Clitoris Administration" not only online but also on the street without risking a defamation suit... or I can annouce "Ashley Simpsons new boobs job and how those titties are fake!". Three cheers for freedom of speech!

BUT BUT BUT...In Singapore, you got to watch your tongue. I can't just announce a certain Temasek Holdings member as having saggy breast good enough to hang on bamboo pole? Or how she much have really good "social" skills to solicited so much deal for Singapore? Baseless thoughts you might say but make for a good joke in the right tone. However the kind of "lam pa" or "nuts" the have develop over time under the authoritive system of governance have pretty much silence much of our inner slap-stick and dead pan creativity.

We can only applaud Jack Neo for his wonderful manuver on government policy and personality without offending anyone. But we will never have a Stephen Colbert or Carlos Mencia (go google them!) for they are just too much of a mouthful to to left alone without the silencing power of a defamation suit.

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