"After handing a gong to costume designer Jenny Beavan, who went up to claim her award in less than dazzling attire, Fry quipped: ‘Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady."
I'm so tired of these whingers and their constant and deliberate misrepresentation of the intent of a text. The joke here has nothing to do with gender but an inconsistency between the award winner and the reason they were given the award. Language, especially when used for humour is all about intention and not the meaning of the words verbatim. There's a subtly to language and to communication that is slowly dying because idiots don't stop think about about about a text in all its possible meanings. It's sad to see what's becoming of the English language and of communication in general in the hands of these literalists.
[–] INTERNET_TRASHCAN ago
Yes it is. It gets funnier when they get pissed.
Btw, Twitter being Twitter is not a "war on humor". It's Twitter being a retarded SJW.
[–] Ben77 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Viz is one of the last bastions of non-pc pandering, adult, male humour left.
On the surface it is a basic, toilet humour centred and puerile magazine. Dig deeper however, and you will find some surprisingly sophisticated satire and parody. Some of the funniest, sharpest satirical observations of the last 30 odd years have come from the pages of Viz.
Strips like 'Millie Tant' and 'The Modern Parents' have been slating the extreme left for years. Way before it became 'trendy' and 'edgy' to question the PC agenda. Seriously, if you are not familiar with these two comic strips, look them up, they are absolute genius. I particularly love how the absolutely hammer the hypocrisy of a lot of blatantly mentally ill, extremist views.
And it is not just the left that comes in for a beating. Like Private Eye, they satirise the right wing too. Jack Black and Baxter Basics spring to mind immediately. And when you are tired of the satire, there are some top notch fart, bum and dick jokes to satisfy your inner 5 year old. My particular favourite is Emperor Ming, the Stinky Galactic Dictator (Ming is north east UK slang for a bad smell)
They also knew about Jimmy Saville and dropped some pretty heavy hints about his activities years ago.You, know, back when he was satisfying his inner five year old......by being inner five year old.........Too soon?