Channel Four are idiots

Repost for Blogging Against Disablism, 2013.

Australian comedian Adam Hills has attracted worldwide attention for blistering comments he made this week about fellow comedian, the legend that is Joan Rivers.

Rivers has been slagging off pop diva Adele for her weight and Hills went to town on his show The Last Leg. He said:

How dare you make fun of one of the best female role models on the planet for the way she looks. Adele is one of the very few women in pop music that I want my daughter to look up to – and you’re making jokes about the way she looks? When you’re so insecure about your own face, you’ve spent more money on it than the producers of Life of Pi spent on that tiger?

And much more ...

An American blog I follow alerted me to it but the embedded YouTube clip has been taken down because stupid Channel Four made a DMCA take-down request. As it has for the many other attempts to put Hills comments up on YouTube.

Why? What possible negatives could there be for the clip going viral? It makes absolutely no sense.

I'm sure Hills is just delighted (not) at C£4's actions.

Perez Hilton has video up so you can watch thanks to him after the jump:

Joan Rivers joins 'the bloggers'

Too, too funny ...

From her blog:

My doctor told me blogging was what happened after eating too many bananas. But blogging is so much more — it’s sitting alone in a dark room, eating raw cookie dough out of the package while my dogs lick my bare feet, and wondering where my life has gone. Melissa, my daughter, love her to death, but the bitch never calls unless I threaten to update my will.

... these videos and podcasts, much like Senator Larry Craig in an airport bathroom, will be coming at you hard and fast all day on Sunday.

... since this is the internet, and since most celebrities can barely read much less use a computer, I can finally get to say all the dirty and disgusting thoughts that those old-fashioned TV networks never let me get away with. As the evening wears on, Melissa and I will also be appearing in something called “Podcasts,” which I’m praying is some type of body-transplant surgery.

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Postscript:

Who knew Al Gore owns a TV Station? So far he’s got an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and now he’s going for a Tony. He’s doing a musical on President Bush called The Lyin’ King.

What’s Al Gore’s speaking fee? Something tells me it’s $All You Can Eat. He’s probably wondering if his Emmy is made out of chocolate. He didn’t learn after breaking all his teeth on his Oscar!