"One thing led to another and I forgot to kill myself that day..."
Considering the things that currently seem to occupy the moral minority in this country, I'm still surprised that Amy Winehouse jokes are still ok. Say "Fuck" on the radio on the answerphone of an (elderly) TV actor and your career is suddenly called in to question but it's still ok to repeat the same tired, shitty jokes about someone who appears (from the albeit hardly reliable) media evidence to be destroying themselves through addiction.
I don't find Amy Winehouse jokes funny. Amy Winehouse jokes might only be 'funny' one day if she doesn't die soon. Jokes are about a power relationship and they are at their funniest when the person joking doesn't have the power. If you're joking about an addict of any sort then I'm really fucking sure that it isn't them that have the power, unless it's over your small life for laughing at them in their moment of ultimate weakness.
I saw a particularly nasty one just now on the start of a show on BBC2 - it was on old gag but transposed on a recent photo where she looked fucked up and scarily thin.
I'm no particular fan of her musically, although I respect that she has talent, but the recent mendacious hypocrisy of our press about other events (and post event offended by replay public) really offend *me* but I have no recourse other than my own words.
Craig Ferguson nailed it here when talking about jokes about Britney Spears, why he didn't want to make them and discussing his own alcoholism - long but worth the watch (that's where the quote title is from):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA
I don't find Amy Winehouse jokes funny. Amy Winehouse jokes might only be 'funny' one day if she doesn't die soon. Jokes are about a power relationship and they are at their funniest when the person joking doesn't have the power. If you're joking about an addict of any sort then I'm really fucking sure that it isn't them that have the power, unless it's over your small life for laughing at them in their moment of ultimate weakness.
I saw a particularly nasty one just now on the start of a show on BBC2 - it was on old gag but transposed on a recent photo where she looked fucked up and scarily thin.
I'm no particular fan of her musically, although I respect that she has talent, but the recent mendacious hypocrisy of our press about other events (and post event offended by replay public) really offend *me* but I have no recourse other than my own words.
Craig Ferguson nailed it here when talking about jokes about Britney Spears, why he didn't want to make them and discussing his own alcoholism - long but worth the watch (that's where the quote title is from):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA