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should the chasers war on everything latest stunt regarding sick kids be the last straw.?

Should the show be axed due to this? Have they gone to far now? What are your thoughts and views on this.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I sometimes think we are losing our sense of humour with all the political correctness nowadays. I'm not laughing at sick children, I'm laughing at the absurdity of Chaser.

    Sure the Chaser boys go too far but they do so every week & cop a load of flack for it. Is everybody still upset over the Quentin doll? The Steve Irwin song? They admitted they went too far, apologised & have suffered a 2 week ban. So just leave it alone & in 2 weeks everybody can complain about the newest thing they do.

  • 1 decade ago

    These first two episodes have been boring as hell, but the scene with the sick kids was crossing the line.

    They say that they were just trying to make fun of the foundation and not the kids, but if that was true the line "they're just going to die anyway" wouldn't have been said.

    They used to be an OK show but now they're just smug little wankers that can't take the mick out of themselves, so they turn to making fun of terminally sick kids, anyone who finds humour in that is a f***ing psychopath and obviously has no dignity whatsoever.

    Well I'll be tuning in next week merely to see what the little pricks have to say for themselves, but after that, I'll be switching them off for good.

    You can't get much lower than picking on sick children for laughs, but they're obviously too far up their own arses to care.

    I was even considering boycotting the ABC entirely, but I'd miss shows like Spicks and Specks and the Bill, ha ha :)

  • 1 decade ago

    That show should not be aired at all. Ever.

    What disgusts me is the fact that my taxes go toward paying for this sort of drivel and making these retched creatures money of preying on the vulnerable.

    If there is anyone who thinks that the sorts of things that these 'people', for want of a better term, do is funny then I feel sorry for them. These ‘Chaser’ guys are not only degrading to everyone and everything but outright predatory.

    Aside from their clear lack of judgment and their absolute immaturity, but worse still, they showed a total scant regard for dying children. Does it get any sicker than that? I do not think so.

    I feel they are the ones that should be institutionalized.

    Before they actually do physically harm someone, for it is matter of when, not if, they should be stopped. They are one of the things that contribute to the ‘dumbing’ down of society. The only people that think that their kind of humor is even close to mildly funny are uneducated peanut Muppet, nuff nuffs.

    Instead of breeding yet more negativity into society, why don’t they put their efforts into actually doing some real good and help people in needs. But no their pure arrogance and self promotion stands in their egotistical way.

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    4 years ago

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  • AJ
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    no. Every is overreacting. I know a younger person that is dying. They are close to me but he nor his family nor me were offended. It's just for a laugh. The bias media in this country has made mountains out of mole hills and I'm sick of it.

    The abc's chasers war on everything is funny because they have smart jokes, good satire and they are always pushing it. It's not like other unfunny skit shows and talk shows on the other australian networks.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ofcourse they have gone too far.

    Getting some laughs and ratings at the expense of terminally ill children is pathetic.

    It was heartbreaking to watch the sick kids talk about their wishes and only to be given a pencil case and a stick.

    I heard that the rest of the show was also boring,

    I wont be watching them anymore.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No.

    People seem to have missed the point about the skit. It was not poking fun at the kids, they were, in fact, trying to point out that charities such as Make A Wish Foundation are underfunded, the Make A Wish Foundation can only grant one third of the wishes requested of them due to lack of funding.

    It might have been a little crass, but the intent was not offensive in any way.

  • Belie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    *I* found it funny.

    But, no, the show shouldn't be axed for it. One joke that didn't go over too well. That's it. They've had them before and they'll have them again, the same with all shows and all comedians.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    na thats funny ass **** just enjoy it

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