Savilisation as True Entertainment.
The avowedly left wing ‘new comedy’ has spoken.
‘The time is right’. ‘People are ready’.
Child abuse as mainstream entertainment. An evening out. Dressed to kill – or rather dressed to listen to allegations of Child Abuse.
It’s OK though – the author, Jonathan Maitland, fresh from his Finsbury Park success with the ‘utterly hilarious’ Dead Sheep…a reminder of how a weak and ineffective Conservative Minister, Geoffrey Howe, savaged Margaret Thatcher…has spoken to the ‘victims and the lawyer representing many of them and everyone understood what he was doing and reacted positively’.
Who can doubt that?
“An Audience with Jimmy Savile” is timed to open at the Park Theatre as Dame Janet Smith’s Inquiry into abuse at the BBC is due to report its findings. ‘The Time is Right’ indeed.
He has chosen the avowedly left wing Alistair McGowen to play the ‘have you rolling in the aisles’ lead role of Jimmy Savile.
That is the Alistair McGowen who refused to portray Jeremy Clarkson ‘because he finds his politics and everything he stands for repugnant’.
That is this Alistair McGowen:
I don’t drive a car, I recycle all my recyclable rubbish, I use energy wisely, I think about the impact I am having on the planet in every decision I make ; I write letters to newspapers, I avoid flying whenever possible, I complain in over-heated, overlit, unnecessarily air-conditioned hotels ; I urge people to turn off their idling engines, I pick up endless dropped carrier bags to stop them getting into the rivers and seas and the bellies of sea creatures and I use my ever-dwindling celebrity status to promote conservation whenever I can.
The Alistair McGowen who will now be playing Jimmy Savile.
“To have someone who is a fine actor but can also do the entertaining bit is great,” said Maitland. “But obviously the play is very much about the dark, nasty side. Alistair is terrific at that.”
Good to know that Alistair McGowen is on record then, when interviewed by Alastair Campbell (who else) as saying that: (at 15 min)
“I do people I respect, like, want to be.”
That had me rolling in the aisles.
What is it with these left wing people who find child abuse entertaining?
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 9:24 am -
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
- Engineer
April 7, 2015 at 10:40 am -
To which the only response that springs to mind is, “Oh f*** off and knit some yoghurt or something.”
- AdrianS
April 7, 2015 at 11:52 am -
Moor, not far off the truth, think as we think, do as we say, share collective outrage
- AdrianS
- Engineer
- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 9:50 am -
The 2011 BBC ‘tribute’ As It Happened is always a good watch – play ‘Spot The Revisionist’ (annoyingly, it’s in three parts on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZcPGEnSaYkThere’s McGowen, there’s Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell – in fact, lots of fun to be had weighing who changed their tune the most inside just 9 posthumous months.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 10:20 am -
There’s some great bollox from this 2013 tilt at “the man who would be Savile” question. It’s the Train-spotting author pontificating about how Savile got away with it. His homespun logic is hilarious in it’s epic left-brainlessness.
“”So how come I knew this rumour about Jimmy Savile, this eccentric British institution? There must have been so much stuff on the grapevine. But there was a whole culture then of not addressing these issues.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/james-mcavoy-denies-claim-that-he-would-play-jimmy-savile-on-the-big-screen-8851256.html
Welsh said that he was groped by middle-aged women when, as a student in the late 70s, he worked in a bingo hall. He said that he believed such abusive behaviour was “all about power”.Bingo Players are part of the Illuminati!!
Housey Housey……- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 10:35 am -
Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, Living or Dead, is Purely Coincidental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMyl3ikNFi4
- Chris
- Moor Larkin
- The Blocked Dwarf
April 7, 2015 at 10:16 am -
I’m not normally a sensitive little flower but reading today’s post made me vomit a little in the back of my throat. Come back Leni Riefenstahl, all is forgiven.
There is something very wrong with a society that seeks to…..
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 10:21 am -
This more like the “Triumph of the Bill” however…
- Ted Treen
April 7, 2015 at 6:43 pm -
Top marks for wit, Moor. I wish I’d written that…
- Ted Treen
- Moor Larkin
- The Blocked Dwarf
April 7, 2015 at 10:30 am -
Such a pity that Sir Robert Helpmann CBE is dead and not available for the lead in
SAVILE- THE MUSICAL.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 10:39 am -
In 1933 the paedo was the good guy…
https://youtu.be/GAfxnacyejA?t=6m11s
The very end seems to have been the model for Michael Jackson’s Neverland…- The Blocked Dwarf
April 7, 2015 at 11:16 am -
In 1933 the paedo was the good guy
almost as creepy as the 1978 Gollum…a mix of The Childcather and Fagin. You know it makes sense, obsessed about Bilbo’s Ring….
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Moor Larkin
- Engineer
April 7, 2015 at 10:39 am -
Alistair Who?
Actually, I have a vague feeling the name used to crop up on BBC comedy shows in the interval between me wondering if BBC comedy was getting less funny or If I was getting grouchy in my middle age, and giving up on BBC comedy altogether.
About the only good thing I can say about this ‘play’ is that most people will have the good taste and sound sense to ignore it completely.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 10:45 am -
Be curious as to the reaction of the victims lobbies. Will they protest about the triggering dangers? Or accept donations from the profits. What a moral dilemma. I wonder if Williams-Thomas will demand Royalties. The plausibilities are endless.
- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 12:50 pm -
He was the Mike Yarwood of the Posh’n’Becks era
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 5:15 pm -
Yay!! Got me answer…
Thanks for raising this. Yes, absolutely: a substantial donation from any profits will go to NAPAC.
https://twitter.com/JonnyMaitland/status/585418752747036672
- Chris
- Moor Larkin
- Anne.
April 7, 2015 at 10:39 am -
‘Child abuse as entertainment..these lefties should be put on a slow boat to China, or somewhere further afield..
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 10:47 am -
Eh?
WH Smith every day of every week of every year, chuck.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sXtaKjOYwC8/UmQ9-ZxngPI/AAAAAAAADQ4/J67U7xN3Z6s/s1600/image002.jpg
- Moor Larkin
- eric hardcastle
April 7, 2015 at 11:25 am -
So the lawyers now are the arbiters of what is acceptable in British theatre ?
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 11:36 am -
It used to be the Lord Chamberlain… Plus ca change.
- AdrianS
April 7, 2015 at 11:54 am -
Perhaps Phil Shiner for attorney general in a future labour SNP green coalition?
- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 1:03 pm -
The same “lawyers” (nitpick: in England they are solicitors not “lawyers”, and we are not talking jurisprudence specialists or scholars dedicated to lawin any case) were also credited as “researchers” on Dan Davies’ work of fiction last year. Which, in a nutshell and speaking as a law graduate, cultural historian and wordsmith, tells us all we need to know about the skills and endeavour required for both 21st Century journalism and ‘success’ in the recently-debased legal industry.
- Chris
- AdrianS
- Moor Larkin
- Alex
April 7, 2015 at 12:35 pm -
As I’ve hinted at in previous comments, I suspect that this is all part of an unspoken agenda to finally get paedophillia accepted by the mainstream, in the same way the homosexual lobby achieved its aim in gaining widespread approval. By keeping the subject in the public consciousness, and little by little presenting those with paedophile tendencies as deserving of our understanding and a perfectly natural form of sexual preference, who’s to say that in the years to come there will be “paedo pride” marches held with impunity?
- AdrianS
April 7, 2015 at 1:01 pm -
Don’t think it will happen, the public are very against paedophiles . The difference between gay sex and paedophiles is that children don’t understand the issues and therefore cannot consent, whereas a gay person can.
I think the media is quite happy to have a bogey man to pan, as in modern Britain hate speech laws protects many categories of marginalised individuals limiting the targets.
From the powers that be point of view they can’t do that much against many minor criminals,,but catch a paedophile on line grooming kids or with collection of illegal images, nice soft target with lots of headline grabbing exposure.
Ultimately paedophiles do have mental problems and they need treatment or being monitored/ imprisoned if they can’t control themselves.- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 1:06 pm -
“Modern” paedophiles only seem interested in post-pubescent teenagers so nobody really seems to have the faintest idea what they’re talking about any longer, which is undoubtedly all part of the problem just now. The media insisted the Duncroft girls were 14 when they were in fact 16 or even 17, and that’s before you even start discussing whether the events even happened at any age.
- The Blocked Dwarf
April 7, 2015 at 1:21 pm -
Ultimately paedophiles do have mental problems and they need treatment ,/i>
They found out that ‘treating’ homosexuals didn’t work…no matter how high the voltage. Paedophilia may be abnormal but, likeunto Lesbiantarism , it isn’t a disease or even a medical condition.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 1:52 pm -
There does seem to me to be a mental crisis in the Left over this. They want everything to be allowed and everything to be possible but their liberality seems to have run into a brick wall here, and they are banging their brains out on that wall. Their use of “the law” rather than a sliding scale of moral judgement seems to be a symptom of their increasingly insane behaviour and one result of this is that they are seeing the thing they fear the most everywhere, but most of it, if not all of it, is illusory. Perhaps that is why they are retreating to the past to live out a fable of their own. For folk on the right, who are subscribing to all this nonsense, it just seems that they want to return to the security of the 1950’s, when America was great and we all knew what side God was on.
- Mudplugger
April 7, 2015 at 8:16 pm -
The left may indeed want everything to be allowed and everything to be possible providing, of course, that it doesn’t involve the smoking of tobacco products.
- Mudplugger
- Moor Larkin
- Alex
April 7, 2015 at 3:40 pm -
@AdrianS
All the arguments you use, were voiced during the struggle to get homosexuality accepted as “normal”. Homosexuals were once perceived as highly likely to target and corrupt “young boys”, hence the one time higher ages of consent for homosexuals. Homosexuals were also considered to be mentally ill in some quarters. To use a modern cliche “never say never”.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 3:43 pm -
Peter Righton demonstrated the problem was real and not fanciful. That folk like Peter could find no consenting adults may merely serve to demonstrate that this was a problem the law had created. The huge popularity of “Queer As Folk” in 1999 suggested the dream lived on.
- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- AdrianS
- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 1:19 pm -
It’s been contrived & subverted to criminalize ordinary sexuality by the (nudge, nudge) back door – and has, by and large, succeeded. A man in his twilight years can now be arrested for an allegation from his teenage years or early 20’s – things are already so blurred that elderly ex-teachers can get banged up for what was then legal corporal punishment and old men brought over from the other side of the world to stand trial for something they allegedly did as a young man.
Things will become even clearer when Slater & Moron have bought even more UK law firms and the prisons are widely privatized.- Mudplugger
April 7, 2015 at 8:19 pm -
Maybe Slater & Moron’s corporate strategy is next to buy up private prison stock, thus closing the profit-loop by banking the revenue from detaining all the tired celebrities they manage to get banged up without real evidence. Nice !
- Giles2008
April 7, 2015 at 10:45 pm -
As one of the complainants in the current Michael Jackson story is an Australian i am wondering if S&G are involved.
- Mudplugger
- Ergathones
April 7, 2015 at 1:24 pm -
JS-hosted editions of TOTP: effectively banned forever.
“An Audience With Jimmy Savile”: Roll Up! Roll Up!
I understand the entertainment censors less and less every day.- Chris
April 7, 2015 at 1:40 pm -
Can’t run the risk of the emperor’s new clothes being unveiled: show people a late 70s/early 80s JS TOTP or some Jim’ll Fix It’s and they would probably form the correct impression – there’s nothing untoward going on, and nor could there have been with all those people around working the show or watching at home in their millions- not to mention that a studio of young people watching the revered pop stars of the day on Top Of The Pops would not have viewed Jimmy as anything more than a annoying old duffer.
But bury those shows and then myths can be built around them.Plenty of ‘banned’ TOTP links here though, if anyone’s interested.
http://www.4shared.com/video/wHgU8m1aba/TOTP_201279.html
- Chris
- Carol42
April 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm -
Can’t understand who would go to see this ‘entertainment’ those who know that at least most of it is nonsense wouldn’t and surely those who believe every word would find it utterly distasteful. No idea where they will find an audience.
- Moor Larkin
April 7, 2015 at 5:12 pm -
Not sure it will take much filling…
https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/about-us
It’s a theatre, but not as we know it Jim… - Chris
April 7, 2015 at 6:19 pm -
I do suspect that, by design, a large of part of the ‘the point’ of all *this* (Savile, Yewtree) is to strip down the credibility of just about everyone in the public eye to that of a modern career politician. And I’m sure most of them hate themselves for not being brave to tell it like it is, and reading off a generic autocue like the worst kind of politico.
I know for a fact that as soon as the story broke the entire light entertainment industry (stars of today and of yesterday) were told in no uncertain terms that if they wanted to work – and, as they soon say demonstrated in very terms, not be arrested themselves via tailor-made false accusations – they had to say much the same things about Jimmy Savile. He was uniformly ‘creepy’, ‘made them feel uncomfortable’ at best, or go further if they wanted. Many a reborn hypocrite got caught up in the net making a u-turn – Pan’s People had to edit their own book for it to be published, and they already had it ready! (and very dubious the page looks too, awkwardly bolted into what is otherwise a very good read).
Some u-turns were preposterous (hi Tony Prince!), some predictable (hi Tony Blackburn, the rabbit in the proverbial headlights who always had an insecurity complex where any of his peers were concerned and thus genuinely resented them all including JS) but all clearly contrived and executed in fear that they too would get DLT’d if they didn’t comply. The wise ones decided not to court the media anymore and keep their reputation and consciences.- Mrs Grimble
April 8, 2015 at 10:19 am -
I doubt that many celebrities actually need to be told “Tell ’em you always suspected Savile was dodgy!” Anybody remember the 2001 Brass Eye Paedogedden Special which had various light entertainment celebrities spouting noncense in front of a camera ?
Entertainers are natural crowdpleasers and will, in general, refrain from saying anything that’s likely to make them unpopular; they’re also mostly too busy to check stories, relying on their people to assure them that it’s OK. And, often, they’re simply not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.- Moor Larkin
April 8, 2015 at 11:01 am -
Dr Fox seems to have caught a crab…
- Moor Larkin
- Mrs Grimble
- Moor Larkin
- Bill Sticker
April 7, 2015 at 6:32 pm -
Oh goody, I’m in London next month for a few days. There’s a show I won’t be bothering with.
- Alexander Baron
May 19, 2015 at 5:17 pm -
Anyone see this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05whvjr/the-detectives-2-interrogation
looks like Ray was a bad boy after all, it wasn’t all just talk, there was physical evidence.
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