Interesting how everyone got in a tizzy because batty old Jane Fonda came out with the "C Word" on The Today Show this morning, simply naming the performance piece that got her involved in a segment on The Vagina Monologues, while less than twelve hours later, chef Gordon Ramsay (who's got a BBC America show called "The F Word") uses the very same "C Word" as a gag in the opening minutes of the first airing of the "Fish & Anchor" episode in the new season of the already bleep-filled UK version of his Kitchen Nightmares (which happens to be the best- and most wittily-written series running in the USA today). Now if Hanoi Jane were
Helen Mirren, maybe no one would have blinked.
Now Gordon Ramsay Says "C-nt" And No One Cares
ReplyDeleteActress Jane Fonda isn't supposed to say "c-nt" because she's an American, a decorated Viet Cong lieutenant and everything but still an American. Gordon Ramsay, on the other hand, is a louche British prick who happens to cook and has a television show, and we just haven't gotten around to rendering him to CIA surrogates in Syria or whatever. So he can say "c-nt" as he does in this clip and we would not be offended, even if he was speaking in his native tongue and not Welsh, and even if he was on clean American television and not the filthy BBC.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Diane Keaton On Good Morning America, while being interviewed by Diane Sawyer, clearly say the "F" word. No apology no aftermath.
ReplyDeletejane fonda is just an unburied dead body..cant compete with gordon ramsay...
ReplyDeletePerhaps nobody cares because the word is A. bleeped and B. on cable. Seems pretty obvious what the difference is.
ReplyDeletethe word was NOT bleeped on Ramsay's show last night.. watch the video.
ReplyDeletethat was the pt of the post
Diane Keaton wasn't bleeped--at least not on the east coast
ReplyDeleteThe difference is that Hanoi Jane was on live TV and they didn't hit the bleep button in time. Same deal with Diane Keaton on GMA. The C word is always gonna get bleeped, in the US and UK.
ReplyDeleteFor anon above...
ReplyDeleteThe 'C' word, as you so quaintly put it, is often aired sans bleep in the UK, often on the esteemed main BBC channels; track down "The thick of it".
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