Posted on 12/16/2006 10:55:27 PM PST by beaversmom
Hollywood film-maker Oliver Stone shocked the audience at the British Comedy Awards with a bad-taste gag about the Suffolk murders.
The director of 'Platoon' and 'Born On The Fourth Of July' was attending the ceremony to present the best comedy film prize to Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.
Taking the stage, he quipped: "It's great to be back in England. I feel like Jack The Ripper days are back. Nothing ever changes here."
But his attempt at comedy was met with jeers and gasps of horror from the celebrity audience.
Realising his joke had bombed, Stone sneered: "You're a lovely crowd."
One audience member said: "If he was trying to be funny, then he failed.
"To make a joke like that when five young women have been murdered and the killer is still on the loose was in unbelievably bad taste."
"I doubt Jack the Ripper is still on the loose."
Nice job of reading the thread. Or even the original article, come to that.
Thank you very much. Good to be back here in Jolly Olde England. Say, How's about them Serial Killers.
Dont they just cut you up?. But, I wanna tell ya,....
The Food,...not funny huh?
What about those terrorists,.....? No huh?
Did you see my last picture?
Ain't it the truth?
Like Michael Richards, Stone revealed that he really couldn't care less about the "common man" the left always claims to champion. That's taboo. You're not allowed to expose the pretense for what it is.
Oh, I didn't know. In my post, I thought the audience member was talking about Jack the Ripper, since it mentioned five women being brutally murdered. My bad.
Not directly related to the OP, but Suffolk Police have this morning made an arrest with regard to the five murders in the Ipswich area:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6189409.stm
Thanks for the update.
Okay, I'll say "Free Republic" three times, tear my clothes and wear sackcloth. I'll shave my head also.
Okay?
It appears Chewie made the same error, so.......
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