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Last updated on March 6th, 2018 at 12:31 am
Giant puppets with a political message! Who’d ever have thought?
A taxpayer-funded theatre group has turned the September 11 attacks into a black comedy.
The Melbourne-based Snuff Puppets company – which receives up to $50,000 in public funding – will put on a charity performance of The Twin Towers Show on Friday.
Snuff Puppet artistic director Andy Freer said the show included black humour and violence …
Mr Freer said the purpose of The Twin Towers Show was to spark debate and understanding of the atrocity.
“We’ve made a 10-minute piece basically recreating the incident.
“We resolve it with a message about religious tolerance and harmony.”
The show was first performed about three weeks after the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The Snuff Puppet people claim:
All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.
Their (taxpayer-funded) boldering. Liars.
(Via Andrew Bolt)
UPDATE. Reader MM alerts potential audience members:
My understanding is that this show at the Spanish Club, 59 Johnston St, Fitzroy (Melbourne, Australia) from 8 pm this Friday, does in fact involve scenes where Mohammed is depicted as a paedophile offering candy to young boys. There is also a running gag involving Mohammed and a goat.
- “All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.”
Question for “Snuff Puppet artistic director” Andy Freer: Does your show contain a muppet Mohammed who gets satirized by your vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility?
[Crickets chirping.]Then don’t even try using a line like that.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 10 04 at 01:23 PM • permalink
- I must have missed their “Piss Puppet Mohammed” presentation. Probably a 2007 production idea, I guess.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 04 at 01:31 PM • permalink
- “All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.”
Enjoy. Do it in my presence, and I’ll violate the taboo against beating “artists” to death.
And, that ain’t no joke.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 04 at 01:52 PM • permalink
- Mr Freer said the purpose of The Twin Towers Show was to spark debate and understanding of the atrocity
“We resolve it with a message about religious tolerance and harmony.”
What religion are we speaking of, when tolerance is mentioned directly after religion, Mr. Freer? I could take a stab at the answer, but stabbing would be considered, intolerant, now wouldn’t it?
Harmony. Are you speaking in terms of sounds that when sung, are pleasing to hear? Or do you speak of ‘can’t we all just get along’.
One of those can and does happen, the other never will, at least not with the people that brought you the plot for your production. At least, in Australia you can do, what you do, without fatwa, or beheading.
Mr. Freer…may you have a person dear, jump from 80 stories, or incinerate in a plane as it rips through a tall building. I say that with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility, of course.
That’s what I was told when I voiced my annoyance at an image of Mary the mother of Christ covered in dung and displayed in the Metropolitan museum of art.
Darling, that painting was not ever displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, nor will it ever. Get your museums straight. It was the Brooklyn Museum, currently your go-to institution for crappy faux multi-culti kitsch. The entire 5th floor was recently given over to a “grafitti” exhibition. Shame, really, they have a terrific collection of Egyptian art.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is more into dead jockeys http://home.att.net/~rhhardin7/vickihearne.degas.txt
- Thanks to a particularly deranged troll (from Sept 11th this year), I learnt that there are websites showing nothing but mutilated bodies from the Iraq war. Their justification: it’s an anti-war message.
No, these are just sick bastards looking for an excuse to peddle their filth. Oh, they probably believe in their purported ‘message’. Why not, since their minds are sewers, it seems only natural they would be against everything right and upstanding in the world.
- Great new idea for those Whacky Snuff Puppets!
A comedy on the Bali bombing. The venue? The Southport Sharks Football Club. Whatta night that’ll be!
- Put on show about Islam that includes “black humour and violence” (or hell, just the truth will do) – and we might take you seriously.
Of course, we know there’s no chance of that….
Pretentious wankers.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 10 04 at 06:26 PM • permalink
- #2
My understanding is that this show at the Spanish Club, 59 Johnston St, Fitzroy (Melbourne, Australia) from 8 pm this Friday, does in fact involve scenes where Mohammed is depicted as a paedophile offering candy to young boys. There is also a running gag involving Mohammed and a goat.
I am outraged on behalf of our muslim brothers.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 10 04 at 06:45 PM • permalink
- Even with Howard’s gun laws, don’t you people still have shotguns?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 04 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- Yeah, I’m sure any ‘debate’ they want to ‘spark’ is over the response to Sept. 11th, not the events of Sept 11. Same goes for their message of ‘tolerance’—which is aimed in only one direction.
“All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility” [with special consideration given to bogus religious sensibilities and threats of violence by grievance-mongering brownshirts].
Always ‘speaking truth’ to powers that wouldn’t harm a hair on their useless little heads. What pussies.
- “Mr Freer said Snuff Puppets did not receive a specific government grant for Twin Towers.”
Unspoken was the remainder of the comment, “Because you common middle class people dont understand our artistic vision”
No specific government grant, what a weak mealy mouthed, wobble bottomed, enervated, and feeble attempt at claiming independence from public funding.
I dont pay taxes to directly fund a chunk of the health system, but funnily enough they still seem to get it.I summon the paper mache heads of doom upon them!!
http://members.tripod.com/~spookmaster/skulls.htmlPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 10 04 at 08:46 PM • permalink
- I really don’t give a fuck what juvenile twaddle these pusnuts produce, as long as it’s not on my dime; while it’s no surprise that they get funding in Brackistan, as the marxist mouthbreathers would pay a derro to have a public shit as long as it was on either a US or Australian flag (extra if he uses said flag to wipe his arse with) but this pack of wallies also recieve federal funding, from an allegedly conservative government. Remember this next time you’re stuck in traffic while a few giant papier-mache’ heads with no recognisable relationship to anyone living or dead is cluttering up a main thoroughfare- you’re not only paying for the road, but the roadblock as well.
I don’t think ANY for of the yartz should have public funding, but it’s beyond the pale when agenda-driven marxist propagandists are funded by the very system they loathe and seek to destroy; I heard the “director” (I thought such a title was oligarchist) staunchly defend their public funding, as they would be unable to function without it due to a lack of paying punters and public interest in any of their turgid, self-indulgent gyrations, but it was in the public interest that they be funded as they reveal alternative viewpoints, and (I kid you not!) challenge the dominant paradigm.
Seeing as I’ve paid for it, the next one of those fuck-ugly giant heads I see I’m going to set on fire.
- From the Snuff Puppet homepage: What do you think of Snuff Puppet? – feedback@snuffpuppets.com
Please feel free to take up that offer…
- It might also be worth letting the Commonwealth Minister for the Arts know how you feel about your tax dollars being wasted on these cretins:
(there’s an email form at the end of the page)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 04 at 09:38 PM • permalink
All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.
Yawn.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 04 at 09:46 PM • permalink
- …I thought such a title was oligarchist…
or “commisar”
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 04 at 10:08 PM • permalink
- The only place this kind of self-loathing crap can fester is in Western liberal democracies, indeed they get the people they criticize to pay for it! I wonder if they realize it won’t be quite so good once they are dhimmified.Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 04 at 11:16 PM • permalink
- The former USSR (used to) and North Korea (still) feature regular parades featuring grotesque oversize papier-mache puppets, usually deriding western imperialism/capitalism etc; virtually identical in look and content to what the collective of “creative” cretins in victoria produce. Oddly enough both forms are state funded as well; ironic, innit?
- Margo’s Maid as much as incited violence by publishing the venue and time (which, I suppose, could have been easily found in any lefty latte lounge).
This is not “free speech”—by my beard—I paid for it and am considering attending with my five friends clenched on my arm.
Just to show my appreciation of their effort, don’tcha know.
If you don’t see me posting for a while, look for me on the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court Lists.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 05 at 01:19 AM • permalink
- Oh, I’m glad that some other people here are informed enough to be outraged! Personally I was withholding my opinion until I’d actually been to see the show, or had a more complete idea of its content, before I shot my mouth off with what would have probably been mere ideological claptrap.
You… you have seen it, haven’t you?
No matter, we can automatically trust Andrew Bolt’s short summary without investigating or thinking for ourselves! It’s what opinion columnists are for, after all.
- “You… you have seen it, haven’t you?”
Want to come see my show on black humor and violence?
It’s called “Watch me crush this left wing maggot’s head, after he tries to make sport of what happened at the WTC”.
Guaranteed to raise a black humor smile…or your money back.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 05 at 02:30 AM • permalink
- It’s about time our “artistic” community went through the weening process. For a bunch of ugly, deoderant avoiding, hairy, second rate, vacuous dead shits, they cop more tit than a blind lech at the Crazy Horse. Public tit that is. If the government continues to flash its tits around like some young, brazen, drunken harlot at a Motley Crue concert, then I propose a masectomy.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 05 at 02:39 AM • permalink
- “All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.”
Comic? Ok, that guy’s comment may be as funny as it gets. Otherwise, don’t expect any laughs.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 10 05 at 03:01 AM • permalink
- Who here read the Andrew Bolt link before commenting?
I didn’t.
Who here, upon seeing a pile of shit in their path, rubs a bit between their fingers, has a sniff, a taste—before stepping in it anyway?
Flashman, yer a plank.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 05 at 03:58 AM • permalink
- WARNING: Heretic Alert
I say, let ‘em go for it – as long as it is funny and not merely soft-Left-let’s-all-live-together-in-peace-and-harmony kumbaya crap.
I don’t agree with people who say some things cannot be the subject of humour.
Example: Margaret Cho, whose Leftist, feminist, gay-loving act often puts off conservatives did a simply fantastic “hooray NYC, screw you Mohammed” routine just after 9/11, which is captured – you can bet, must to her embarrassment – on her doco ‘Notorious C H O’.
It was bitter and raw, but most of all funny in an “I Am Not Afraid” sense. Of course, today she’s back to her bad old ways, but nothing should be deemed beyond the bounds of humour.
As a dear friend once reminded me: Suicide is the ultimate expression that you have no sense of humour.
[/controversial mode off]Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 10 05 at 05:36 AM • permalink
- Margaret Cho hasn’t been funny in years. She used to be charming, like all the other “alternative” comics, but her shtick (my Korean immigrant parents ran a porn store!” “My mother would say ‘Is that the GAY?’” Penis jokes, etc.) got tired fast, the way softcore porn eventually does. Also she got nasty and bitter, and like most Americans, who think they are being oppressed when traffic is extra-heavy, she acts as if every criticism of her act is a harbinger of the dreaded Christian No-Fun Theocracy to Come. Boring.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 05 at 05:43 AM • permalink
- Oh by the way, to address another commenter, I’m not sure someone who uses the nickname Flashman is in a position to lecture any of us.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 05 at 05:45 AM • permalink
- Hang on a second here Andrea is this in order? I’ve been posting here occasionally for over a year and now this clown comes on and purloins my nickname sort of. Shouldn’t he asked to bog off and get another name?Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 10 05 at 08:04 AM • permalink
- “I say, let ‘em go for it – as long as it is funny…”
I agree. Everyone should be free to pursue their own brand of humor.
These folks (the Puppet guys) think it’s humorous to make mock of people (including little children) who were murdered by being flown into the side of a building by a pack of psycho muslims.
I, OTOH, would find it amusing to douse these puppeteers with gasoline, set them alight, and then watch as they screamed in agony, and died begging for their lives (see the irony here?…many people in the WTC died in similar fashion). Now, that’s what I call black humor.
We should all be free to engage in any acts that we find amusing.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 05 at 11:18 AM • permalink
- “I don’t agree with people who say some things cannot be the subject of humour. “
Gee, since anything can be conceivably found to be funny by someone, that means new realms of humor are opened up to the peasants.
In this case, there’s a terrorist attack that began with an attacker slitting the throat of an attendant (to gain the attention of the passengers), continued as the airplanes people travelled in were transformed into weapons, cut to the scenes of thousands of additional casualties from fire, trauma or leaping to their death, then gave way to hundreds of emergency personnel dying while attempting to help. The comedy skit continues to this day, as bits of human remains are discovered, and additional emergency personnel succumb to illness caused by working in toxic conditions. Oh yeah, the children and surviving spouses are struggling to recover from their losses, while avoiding substance abuse, domestic upheaval and suicide.
Only a jew loving neocon dolt could not find the humor that truly enlightened people can chortle over here.
If puppet art occurs in a venue and nobody goes…
Is it still art?
trainer—the lack of audience response PROVES its artistic integrity. This ensures a continuing flow of grant money from bourgie bureaucrats who won’t go to see it either, but have to do SOMETHING with the tax dollars they’re hired to spend.
Ultimately, the perfect art piece is one that NOBODY sees.
The ultimate GRANT art would be a work that the soi-disant artists demands to be paid NOT to produce…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 05 at 07:00 PM • permalink
- #47 & #49
Thank you for your kind support gentlemen, it makes me all kinda gushy inside, in a manly not gay way you understand, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 10 05 at 11:55 PM • permalink
- That’s not controversial, Apparat… I’m sure many people agree with your views.
Good humour is good humour, but alas there’s not enough of it. Can’t comment on Margaret Cho, but I can’t stand didactic comedy or “aren’t we so clever and you so dumb” humour. Having said that I think that nothing should be out of bounds when it comes to humour.
The South Park chaps, while not always hitting the mark, prove that.
If people used their real names instead of superhero monikers, issues with deciding who’s who wouldn’t be such a problem. Frankly, if you believe in something you should put your own name to it.
Up, up and away from “SupergirlrockstartotallycoolchicklikewowandthatRojerRamjetrules”
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Aw, to hell with it. I’m outraged anyway!!
It takes a special kind of evil to create this kind of crap.