Prom 40: Saturday 13th August 2011 at 7.30 p.m. (Comedy Prom)

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    #16
    making fun of music is not a joke
    I thought Anna Russell making fun of Wagner was funny

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      #17
      There's no lack of possible material for a program, even a Prom if we must, of music and laughter. We'll see.

      I do notice that the BBC isn't televising this one immediately (if at all) - lack of confidence in what they probably call the "concept"?

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        #18
        Originally posted by John Bennett View Post
        I do notice that the BBC isn't televising this one immediately (if at all) - lack of confidence in what they probably call the "concept"?
        Nothing wrong with the 'concept' - apparently - it will be broadcast at 9pm, BBC Two, 27 August

        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          #19
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          ........ Hope tonight's Prom is clever and witty.
          Well, it didn't seem to be by 8pm, or I've just aged hugely, so I turned it off.

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            #20
            Part one was a bit iffy for half an hour but Kit and the Widow rescued it with the songs about Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Stephen Sondheim (the first very barbed and sung by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and the second more affectionate sung by Susan Bullock). "Puccini in Punjabi" (a piece of Curryoke or Kareoke, geddit) worked because it continued on the laughter which had begun before and involved the audience in LNOTPs style.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Roehre View Post
              that makes two of us. Time for a
              Think I'll join you , currently listening to Deep Purple.

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                #22
                Not particularly funny.
                Rather crass.

                I thought there was potential for something good.

                I was wrong.

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                  Think I'll join you , currently listening to Deep Purple.

                  ....
                  Now, you're talking. I dipped in and out of the Prom. Banal. Pointless. Wearisome. Re Haydn's Surprise symphony..at least that had music in it.

                  Radio 3 ...downhill..hand basket.

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                    #24
                    Looking forward to some "What a po-faced lot" backlash from returning Arena-ites who had a whale of a time

                    Might try and catch the TV version having been otherwise engaged this evening - I quite like the idea of a barbed Lloyd-Webber p***-take / send-up. Nessun Korma sounds dire though...
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      #25
                      I missed most of the the second half as I wanted to relive the NYO concert on TV. The beginning of the Reizenstein Concerto Populare sounded as though the old warhorse has plenty of life left in it.

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
                        "Puccini in Punjabi" (a piece of Curryoke or Kareoke, geddit) worked because it continued on the laughter which had begun before and involved the audience in LNOTPs style.
                        I thought it was as racist as hell. "Yuk yuk! Funny little brown people and their funny little foodstuffs out in the colonies!" Actually, I died a little inside to think of what my Indian business associates would think of me for not having had the guts to leave the room.

                        You'd never hear a piece where the humour is predicated on the idea of black people eating watermelon, fried chicken, chitlins and greens (Puccini in Pickaninny?) Same thing...why this was acceptable was beyond me. Maybe in Britain, casual racism isn't the issue it is in the US...oh well.

                        Other parts of the show were quite enjoyable and clever; for instance, I loved the Flanders & Swann singalong, the Victor Borge schtick, and the Sondheim spoof. However, at times I found myself admonishing myself with the same lines I always use on the likes of you: "Not every Prom has to appeal to every listener. Who are you to begrudge people their enjoyment? Don't you see how many enthusiastic new young faces are here? Lighten up and stop your whinging: if it's not "for" you, you should have stayed home."

                        I guess it just wasn't for me.

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by cavatina View Post
                          Maybe in Britain, casual racism isn't the issue it is in the US...oh well.
                          I suggest you watch "Family Guy" or "South Park". No, watch both.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by cavatina View Post
                            I thought it was as racist as hell. "Yuk yuk! Funny little brown people and their funny little foodstuffs out in the colonies!" Actually, I died a little inside to think of what my Indian business associates would think of me for not having had the guts to leave the room.

                            Lighten up and stop your whinging: if it's not "for" you, you should have stayed home."
                            Good advice, Cavatina!

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                              #29
                              I suggest you watch "Family Guy" or "South Park". No, watch both.
                              They wouldn't broadcast racist songs from either of those shows on NPR. Oh well, I suppose standards at NPR are a bit different: did you think what Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand did to Andrew Sachs was great fun too? Were you yukking it up at Richard Hammond's slurs against Mexicans?

                              You say "edgy," I say "rotten".
                              Last edited by Guest; 14-08-11, 09:00.

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by Ventilhorn View Post
                                Good advice, Cavatina!
                                Ooh, look--they're playing your song...
                                Song of Patriotic Prejudice(The English are Best)AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HATon Broadway 1967By Permission of THE FLANDERS & SWANN ESTATES


                                Now THAT's funny.

                                And for what it's worth, it's not that I'm po-faced about everything: I certainly don't have a problem with raunchy humour as long as it's witty and clever. In fact, I've seen Tape-Faced Boy's "half-dress" act done much better as a neo-burlesque/performance art cabaret act in New York City: a Fay Wray/King Kong striptease to the tune of "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". Tacky as all get-out, but that's part of the point.

                                Here's an article about the neo-burlesque performance art renaissance in New York. I suppose I prefer this kind of humour to much of what was on Radio 3 last night because although it's often crude and over-the-top, it's basically good-natured and seldom mean-spirited. Oh well, to each his own. And never in a million years would I say this kind of thing is appropriate for the Proms or Radio 3...that's my take on it, at any rate.
                                Last edited by Guest; 14-08-11, 08:46.

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