Hysterical Comedy

On September 22, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Laws of our land, Media

The first reac­tion to any MDA action is usu­ally anger — then after let­ting it sink in for a lit­tle bit, we thought it really funny.

The pro­duc­tion com­pany thinks it’s a new cat­e­gory of advi­sory, this “satir­i­cal com­edy” rat­ing. And we’re scour­ing through the script to see what the hells I’ve writ­ten that has made the peo­ple at the MDA give us this ground­break­ing honor.

It’s not the sex, we took that out. There is no vio­lence except for one scene, and that’s pretty mild. I took out the bit about the PM’s pink wardrobe, so that can’t be it, unless they were read­ing an older ver­sion of the script.

What this actu­ally means is that peo­ple under 16 have to be accom­pa­nied by older peo­ple, and the news that this is “satir­i­cal com­edy” has to be pub­li­cized on tick­et­ing out­lets as well as at the the­atre doors.

Still, I’m quite thrilled we’ve got­ten this advi­sory, even though I’ve writ­ten R18 shows (Kumar) before.

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  • Anthea

    Satire is “the use of irony, sar­casm, ridicule, or the like, in expos­ing, denounc­ing, or derid­ing vice, folly, etc. ” So, pat your­self on the back for get­ting the rat­ing! Either your show is a satire, in which case the direc­tive seems cor­rect (accord­ing to Stephen Col­bert, chil­dren are not capa­ble of under­stand­ing irony or sar­casm), or MDA does not know what satire means. Or were you out to get a PG rat­ing in the first place?

    Pity that you had to take the bit about the PM’s shirt, and other stuff, out, esp. with the satire rat­ing now given for your show. Maybe you should have two shows — a squeaky clean with no chance to offend, and one for the mature audi­ence who under­stands satire (and have mock riot police around in case peo­ple start to dis­agree with each other and get into fights).

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