Here is a skit that aired yesterday on Australian "satirical news program" The Chaser's War On Everything. Surprisingly, making fun of children with terminal diseases proved somewhat controversial.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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www.crikey.com? Bludgers? How delightfully Australian!
Meh. This is a poor man's Brass Eye "Pedophilia Special".
You're not wrong.
So very best.
Yes the children are going to die anyway and millions are wasted on trips to Disneyland and meeting Zac Efron. But won't somebody please think of the PR people and US and PEOPLE magazines and the senseless loss of countless financially rewarding celeb photo ops?
If I find myself in the throes of a terminal illness and it turns out there's some sort of adult Make-A-Wish Foundation, I'm going to ask to spend a weekend in Las Vegas with Charles Barkley.
If the disease does not kill me, the weekend with Barkley will.
Much better version of the same joke, from Mr. Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpMjWO3qHpk