Post by Niemmy on Oct 18, 2007 23:34:23 GMT -5
THE GRIEVING ex-partner of Peter Brock and Stan Zemanek's widow have slammed The Chaser's War on Everything's "stomach-churning" attack on their dead husbands as "cowardly", "repulsive" and "unfunny".
The tasteless musical item entitled The Eulogy Song mocking dead celebrities aired during Wednesday night's show outraged some viewers with its offensive remarks about "slut" Princess Di, "greedy tight arse" Don Bradman and "brothel cheat" Kerry Packer with its chorus-line "Even wankers turn into top blokes after death".
Prime Minister John Howard labelled the song "distasteful and despicable" and asked: "Why don't they stick to decent, dirt-free humour that we can all enjoy?"
And this morning he fired a broadside at the Chaser team directly, when hey ambushed him on his morning walk. Watch it below.
Yesterday Opposition Leader Keven Rudd said the skit was "absolutely disgusting".
"I've said before, I've enjoyed The Chaser's work but I say to those guys at The Chaser: This is absolutely disgusting. Guys, you really need to lift your game. This is just wrong."
The Chaser's songwriter Chris Taylor said he had no regrets and was not surprised the song had offended some people.
quot;Out of consideration" to Marcella Zemanek, the show's Julian Morrow phoned her earlier in the week to warn her about the song in which her husband is described as "a racist jock, a fatso zenophobic cock, whose views were more malignant than his brain."
"I had a panic attack, I woke up at four o'clock in the morning scared to death about about what they were going to say about Stan," Mrs Zemanek said yesterday.
She said it was cowardly, hurtful, unnecessary and "absolutely loathesome" for all the families affected.
"I thought of Ros Packer, Terri Irwin. I thought, these women, we've all lost our partners and sure, they were in the public eye, but it doesn't give them the right to kick them when they're dead.
"When they are alive they've got some way of responding but you don't do it when they're dead and it's left to the family to deal with it."
Bev Brock dismissed the song as "distasteful" and "totally lacking in consideration".
She said the family had enjoyed The Chaser "until now" but would be turning off after the ABC comedy team displayed such a lack of respect for the family.
"It's sad these very talented people have stooped to this level to get a bit of attention with such total disregard for families like ours.
"They're talking about people who gave an enormous amount to society and this song has come at a great cost to their families."
Taylor said it did not enter his head when writing the song it might offend the familes of the deceased saying it was not the job of The Chaser team to "think about those sort of things."
"While you're always sympathetic to people who have experienced a loss, it's not really a reason to censor yourself," he said.
He said the mention of Belinda Emmett was different because "she didn't live a life of hypocrisy or selfishness" unlike the others in the song.
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The tasteless musical item entitled The Eulogy Song mocking dead celebrities aired during Wednesday night's show outraged some viewers with its offensive remarks about "slut" Princess Di, "greedy tight arse" Don Bradman and "brothel cheat" Kerry Packer with its chorus-line "Even wankers turn into top blokes after death".
Prime Minister John Howard labelled the song "distasteful and despicable" and asked: "Why don't they stick to decent, dirt-free humour that we can all enjoy?"
And this morning he fired a broadside at the Chaser team directly, when hey ambushed him on his morning walk. Watch it below.
Yesterday Opposition Leader Keven Rudd said the skit was "absolutely disgusting".
"I've said before, I've enjoyed The Chaser's work but I say to those guys at The Chaser: This is absolutely disgusting. Guys, you really need to lift your game. This is just wrong."
The Chaser's songwriter Chris Taylor said he had no regrets and was not surprised the song had offended some people.
quot;Out of consideration" to Marcella Zemanek, the show's Julian Morrow phoned her earlier in the week to warn her about the song in which her husband is described as "a racist jock, a fatso zenophobic cock, whose views were more malignant than his brain."
"I had a panic attack, I woke up at four o'clock in the morning scared to death about about what they were going to say about Stan," Mrs Zemanek said yesterday.
She said it was cowardly, hurtful, unnecessary and "absolutely loathesome" for all the families affected.
"I thought of Ros Packer, Terri Irwin. I thought, these women, we've all lost our partners and sure, they were in the public eye, but it doesn't give them the right to kick them when they're dead.
"When they are alive they've got some way of responding but you don't do it when they're dead and it's left to the family to deal with it."
Bev Brock dismissed the song as "distasteful" and "totally lacking in consideration".
She said the family had enjoyed The Chaser "until now" but would be turning off after the ABC comedy team displayed such a lack of respect for the family.
"It's sad these very talented people have stooped to this level to get a bit of attention with such total disregard for families like ours.
"They're talking about people who gave an enormous amount to society and this song has come at a great cost to their families."
Taylor said it did not enter his head when writing the song it might offend the familes of the deceased saying it was not the job of The Chaser team to "think about those sort of things."
"While you're always sympathetic to people who have experienced a loss, it's not really a reason to censor yourself," he said.
He said the mention of Belinda Emmett was different because "she didn't live a life of hypocrisy or selfishness" unlike the others in the song.
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