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| 2006 |
Tonight on BBC4: an evening devoted to nostalgic reminders of Nazism. The jokes, the cameraderie, the hopes and dreams of those idealists that one day we would all be led by the Fuhrer and the world would be cleansed of homosexuals and Jews.
Or maybe not. Instead, there's this:
BBC FOUR's Communist Jokes night.
Coz, heh, Communism was, like, well good. Really pure. Such a shame all that idealism's vanished. Along with the victims of the hilariously murderous ideology.
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I've never seen a listing for BBC4 before. I notice that it is assumed that the creme of Britain's intelligentsia, or whoever it is that is supposed to watch it, don't know how to work a video recorder.
My Dad Was a Communist Alexei Sayle is among the children of members of Britain's Communist Party who recall what it was like to grow up with the principles of Marxism-Leninism and a belief in the evils of capitalism. [S]Part of BBC FOUR's Communist Jokes night.
Of course, this doesn't stop him advertising that truly weird Mama Kinder stuff on the box does it? And please don't tell me he gets repeat fees (on at 20:30 and then again at 01:30)?
How anyone can say they used to be (or worse, are) a communist after knowing what those bastards did is beyond me.
I don't think they'll be getting any of their material from The Black Book of Communism.
One really wonders. One really does, at the loonies who have infiltrated the media.
The programme on communist jokes was really rather funny.
Woman walks into shop with emply shelves. "No cheese? she asks. "Wrong shop", replies the shop assistant, "this is a shop without meat. The shop without cheese is across the street."
"So little girl, who is your father?"
"Nicolae CeauÅŸescu"
"And who is your mother?"
"Elena CeauÅŸescu"
"And what to you want to be?"
"An orphan"
Manager of factory rattles off increasing production numbers.
His product? "Out of order" signs