The producers of Bruno were taking no chances at the film’s Sydney premiere, making the Chaser boys sign agreements not to disrupt the show prior to being allowed in, and having them watched by security gorillas throughout.
Chaser executive producer Julian Morrow later tweeted: ‘Universal Studios must have a sense of humour … but obviously they don’t have a sense of irony.’
This might be a reverse morissette*, in that the only way Australia’s leading pranksters can get into a movie about the world’s leading pranksters is to be temporarily renounce pranksterism. Therefore, it’s Morrow who lacks a sense of irony, while Universal Studios has it in spades. What they don’t have is a sense of humour, whereby they would tolerate a pranksterish interruption to Bruno.
Must lie down now. Brain hurts.
*morrissette, a form of meta-irony, named after the blessed Alanis, for her song in which symmetrical bad luck (rain on your wedding day, free ride when you’ve already paid) is mistaken for irony, thus making the one ironic thing about the song, ‘Isn’t it ironic’, the fact that nothing the song describes actually is. A reverse morrissette is, well, see above.
and not a cowboy to be seen?
Call me dopey but this is just confusing, or possibly just confused. Surely it is an ironic violation of the the prankster ethos* if a prankster attempts to stop other pranks while himself conducting a prank (eg the horse down George Street etc) himself. The larger point is that pranksters attempt to control the prank audience/’victims’ and the ‘prank environment’.
What Morrow can be accused of is hypocrisy as the Chaser team attempt to exercise this type of control when doing their stunts. But he does know what irony means.
*A wankery term I know but, hey, this all for fun OK?
Careful, this stuff killed David Foster Wallace.
I would like to refer you all to the outstanding George Steiner book ‘The Death of Tragedy’ where he defines and dissects tragedy and irony using examples from literature.
I’m quite happy Sacha Baron-Cohen made them sign an agrement not to disrupt the screening. Frankly it shouldn’t have stopped them it surely wouldn’t have stopped Sacha Baron-Cohen. Is Julien the ex Law Student? He shouldn’t be so lax with his definitions.
I find ‘The Chaser’ about as funny as a child patient in a cancer ward at the best of times.