And, I might add, not a moment too soon. I doubt all the contemplatives on the planet couldn't hold back God's wrath with their prayer and mortifications if this were broadcast.
"Popetown," featuring the voices of comedienne Ruby Wax as the pontiff and model Jerry Hall as a fame-hungry nun, was commissioned for the digital channel BBC3. The animation featured corrupt cardinals and an infantile pope who bounced around the Vatican on a pogo stick.Try blasphemous and sacrilegious, not "scurriously funny." What the hell is "creative risk" anyway? Why don't they admit they just want to sell ads and be done with it.BBC chiefs said Thursday it was too offensive to broadcast.
"After a lot of consideration and consultation, balancing the creative risk with the potential offense to some parts of the audience, we have decided not to transmit the program," said BBC3 Controller Stuart Murphy.
"Despite all the creative energy that has gone into this project and the best efforts of everyone involved, the comic impact of the delivered series does not outweigh the potential offense it will cause," he added. "There is a fine judgment line in comedy between the scurrilously funny and the offensive."
The question, now that the BBC has created this monstrosity and then dropped it, is -- who's going to pick it up?
I guarantee you that we haven't seen the last of this bit of slime. I predict it will appear on cable in the U.S. within 12 months.
blasphemous and sacrilegious
How's that?