Some of the funnyiest writing is funny because it draws out the absurdity of human behaviour. We really are a bunch of plonkers.
Take the "Credit Crunch" for example. (Alliteration is another fabulous thing but I'll save that for another day.) The economy is amazingly complicated and boring. Not even the top economists seem to really understand how it works. Politicians don't have the concentration span to understand it. Bankers don't need to understand it (they get paid anyway). And the rest of us don't give two hoots about it until we are queuing up outside our bankrupt building society trying to withdraw our savings.
Yet, despite this shortage of understanding, the torrent of opinions on the subject never seems to dry up. It's the bankers' fault! It's Gordon Brown! It's Margaret Thatcher! We should privatise the banks! We should go war with Iceland! Blah blah blah.
It's the same with the environment. I don't think anyone really knows what the hell is going on. But there is no shortage of opinions.
Pick any subject - War in Iraq, Education, Madonna's marriage, Kerry Katona's waistline. A scarcity of facts and a wealth of opinions.
Sorry if you were hoping this blog would be funny by the way.
I just wanted to introduce the topic and see if any of you have any thoughts on it before I start to develop this idea further. What do you think? Is there some material here?
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I think this is a deep vein for biting satire, but I'm not sure how well that would go down on stage. Maybe you should save this material for your Al Franken on the other side of the pond book?
Andy.
Maybe if its not at all preachy it could work. "Opinions save time cos you don't have to think to have one - take the credit crunch, some people blame the bankers, in my opinion we should blame the penguins. Why? Because that is my opinion!"
This is why I am not a stand up comedian, by the way...
Credit crunch? Is that the end of the Big Bucks theory? (Joke for astrophysicists there)
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