Shockingly, according to the BBC, fears of exposure to over 3 000 “fuck”s didn’t seem to reduce people’s willingness to watch the big broadcast:
“More than 1.7 million viewers watched Jerry Springer – The Opera on BBC Two on Saturday, despite the objections of protesters.
At least 45,000 people had contacted the BBC to complain about swearing and religious themes in the opera.
Whodathunkit? “Moral” outrage boosts public interest.
In other music news, a sample of my latest cut—“Fuckity Fuck”, a hip-hop tribute to Hugh Grant’s performance in Four Weddings And A Funeral—is now available for download [small MP3 ; WARNING: Even this half-minute extract contains 28 instances of a sexual swearword]. This track and many others will be available for purchase from this site in all formats, including double gatefold lyric-embossed DVD.
PG — Isn’t it either 8,000 rude words or 300, depending on whether you count each word uttered by each member of the chorus or not? I’m not sure where you get this 3,000 from… Or were you making your own count during the broadcast?
. – that’s an html microdot containing 27 million “fucks”, 392,000 “buggers” and a solitary “gosh”.
“Isn’t it either 8,000 rude words or 300, depending on whether you count each word uttered by each member of the chorus or not? I’m not sure where you get this 3,000 from…”
…from the other end of the link with the “3 000” in it. I’m sure it’s unreliable, though. Who’d trust an organ called Media Week?
“Or were you making your own count during the broadcast?”
I have to go out to watch TV and, for some reason, I didn’t think it was worth making arrangements for this particular televisual turning point 😉 .
You don’t care.