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The Dying Art Of Sarcasm

In another thread - which TV series do you recommend, mine was Red Dwarf and Blackadder. They are both masters of the sarcasm genre....
If you google Blackadder, you'll get the 'Are you smoking a cigarette?'
Know of any better ones or are less us than a chocolate teapot?
Indeed, they are really great! I thought of recommending them but then I saw someone (you) already did.
I think it's cultural, as the world becomes more 'global' or homogenised, we're starting to lose the edge on things. For instance, the BBC used to provide entertainment to a populous of xx million of which they were pretty sure had a particular audience. Now, in the effort to please everybody (and opinion), the budget is split.
HBO>BBC for quality pleasing over quantity pleasing.

Don't you Brits have any equivalent of HBO? Free control by a creator to create his art without appealing to network "standards and practices" and political correctness?

Believe it or not, the BBC is supposed to be exactly that but unfortunately they would like to spunk something in the order of £4000000000 on 'The Great British Bake Off'
Tell me, Dio, do you think the series you have seen are worth 4 billion/year? How can a TV channel be funded with 4 billion and only be known for a handful of TV shows?
Jesus fuck....that's a lot of money to pay for what should be art.
£165 for every single household in the UK that owns at TV! Yes, they come out with some decent stuff, but value for money? Nope.
Music, TV, Hollywood...has been watered down for the masses and have practically become corporations in their machinated pursuit of profit...

Well obviously there are many corporations in these industries, it's just sad to see such degradation in quality due to the nature of the corporation.

Yet the media says that the degradation lies in swear words, sex, violence, or taboo topics and ideas. The real tragedy is the ironing out and watering down in their effort to appeal to more demographics.
Aye, I know. National Health Service in the UK - Costs a bed ridden patient £7/day to watch TV there. You'd think with the 4 billion the BBC stole funds themselves with they'd put the technology in hospitals - right? Wrong......

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