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  • Wat a fucking sad cunt........

  • Humans have a habit of making humour in disastrous situations, it usually relieves the pressure but there are some places you just don't go and I'm afraid this is one of them

  • I was laughing so much up until the last line, that was just a bit too far. All the rest I say get over it and have a laugh, it was a brilliant idea haha

  • It was horrible idea to make a sketch of dying children but i don't think the chasers should be forever hated because of this slip up. The guys have acknowledged that what they did was in bade tastes and have publicly apologized for it.

    It is truly unfortunate that such a stuff up like this had to cost Australia one of its best shows.

  • its not making fun of the kids at all...more making fun of make a wish foundation to me...

  • It's called black humour.

  • 29 people are terminally sick children

  • This is funny, get a sense of humor you suckers and harden the fuck up

  • it's very darkly comic, but what possessed them to think that they wouldn't cause an uproar by releasing that, it's unfortunate because it killed the war

  • big fan of chasers show....this one in extremely bad taste

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  • aussssssie pride this was pre funny media fuck off you gay faggits nothing wrong with this

  • who cares cmon everybody

  • I am a huge fan and have seen every episode of theirs, but this was just way too horrib..................ly hilarious.

  • Big fan. But this is going way way too far

  • hilarious.. or maybe i dont have a heart

  • I actually didn't think this was terribly funny.

    Big fan of the Chaser...but this sketch didn't do it for me. (probably the only one that didn't, in all the stuff they've done.

    But if you do find it funny, so what? I hate it when people press their views on others.

    I didn't like it, but some other person might....and that's fine.

    If you don't like something, don't watch it.

    Nobody forced you to watch this stuff...

  • Hahaha stupid dying children

  • are you fucking serious their dissing children that are going to die do you think thats funny you dumb cunt ..fuck some people are fuckt these days ...fucking idiots

  • @NE14ORA6T93ER says the guy swearing at everyone watching a sketch from a comedy show...

  • Well at least he offered the kid a nice stick!!

  • terrible. normally love them but this is just too far.

  • I think if they had lost the last sentence, people would have found it okay, the thing with "satire" is that the media NEVER understand it. They NEVER understand when someones being ironic or sarcastic.

  • this skiotch is funny just stupid media people wanting ratings blowing out od preportion

  • They're were 'even worse' sketches on that ep.

    This was the last one I thought that would create a media shitstorm (I'm trade marking that phrase KRudd)

  • @LoneWolfHowl1

    Progromatic Spesitivity

  • With the hypocritical nature of the media and media controlled minds, they'll probably backflip on it in 5 - 10 years time, and say; "Well looking back on it, it wasn't really that bad".

    God I hate stupid people!!! They're taking over our television waves, if not already!!

  • wtf, 3 lil comments may of been found offencive. if ya dont like it, dont watch it! possibly the greatest show in the world, taken off the air because peoples intollerency. Fair fuckin dinkum!!!!!!

  • @DCDcorp and the majority of the people that complained didnt even watch that episode, fucking shattered when they removed it off tv :(

  • Keep in mind that nearly all of the outrage came from people who didn't watch the show and heard it from others.

    The satire is pretty clear cut. They were mocking the notion that these foundation charities guilt their parents into donating using the fantasy or wish card.

  • this happened like a year ago, and dumb cunts are still arguing over it, hahahahahahhahaa.

  • roflmao

  • u'd like to meet zac efron would you? well, i tell you what, why don't you have this nice stick instead? funny... yes, but the ending was a bit mean.

  • it may be mean but its entirely true when was it a crime to tell the truth. while those kids get extremely materialistic wishes granted for them. millions of kids die of starvation. if all that money wasn;t give to little timmy to disneyland about 10,000 upward. you could save the live and give new found hope of prosperity 100+ children in 3rd world countries. a bit mean. thats mean

  • I just love the sanctimonious outrage of people who can't handle humour that is irreverent or blackly satirical. The actual object of this kind of joke is not the children who are suffering, it is the self righteous people who think a trip to Disneyland will ease that suffering. Why not spend the money on further research to find a cure for cancer. Arranging for a child dying of cancer to meet some half-arsed yank celebrity is the real cruelty. Love the Chaser!

  • low

  • For the lulz

  • Hmmm... I can't decide whether to find this offensive or funny...

  • ehehe.. funtastic :'D

  • cut it out latinoheatm8- i agree with Swanmaens.

    the chasers are already off the air and are no longer in the tv stuff ok, they did their apolygy and frankly all they wanted to do was make a little joke if u dont like this stuff why do u wach it? ur 1 of those peeps that go around making people feel bad and not want to open their mouthes again.if u have nuthing good 2 say dont say nething. i actwally find the funny side 2 this.

  • Thanks.

    Its exhausting using energy on an idiot.

  • Yes and it's exhausting for me using energy on someone like you.

  • there are some places you just don't go. That was one of them.

  • Get some empathy you heartless shit.

  • Eat my anus you ignorant television.

    People like you get overly caught up in "play" and take it seriously - to some element - and miss the POINT.

    But thats understandable, in order to see the point one must be of enlightened intellect. Obvsiously not you making a comment like that. Who else would say that other than the status quo?

  • You close minded, shelter lived, stupid, heartless, asshole. What if God forbid you had a kid who was in that position, look at it from someone else's perceptive instead of your own stupid one. I love making jokes as much as the next guy but there's a time for jokes, and this wasn't it. Can you imagine what kids with cancer are going through? No of course not, because you're head's too far up your ass.

  • Hahaha. Whatever fool. You are the one who has to resort to name calling here. "close minded, shelter lived, stupid, heartless, asshole." = one way to make yourself look like an idiot.

    You've missed the point of the sketch. Its ok, you only missed it because you lack the education or perhaps the perception. I happen to have an extremely open mind and can understand what chasers is saying. You only hear to what you want to hear and that is offense.

  • The reason I called you a "close minded, shelter lived, stupid, heartless, asshole" is because it's the best way to describe you. If you truly find this funny then you have some issues buddy. And no I don't only hear what "I want that is offensive" I hear what's presented, the chasers saying of why going to all the trouble when the kids are going to die anyway. If this was not the point of their joke, they should have made it more clear, and not have made such comments.

  • @latinoheatm8

    this isn't having a go at the kids (this is what made me pissed off when it was taken off the air) but rather at the idiotic celebrities who think that they can fix all the terminally ill kids' problems by sending them to disneyland and then not give as shit cause they want to look good to the public, instead of acually donating oney to charitties to help discover cures for these diseases if they really care.

    you just haven't figured that out, its called black humour

  • If I had a child that had cancer? Well shit. That sucks. And? Thats about it. Anything anyone says besides those directly involved is nothingness. People get cancer the same as people die. It happens, get over it.

    Anytime is a great time for jokes. I know what kids with cancer are going through I have been involved with children (and adults) of many illnesses for many years and I find this so so funny.

  • "It happens, get over it" Yeah as if your child getting cancer and dying is no big deal. Wow man, if you truly know what kids with cancer are going through, you would know how they and the parents feel. You obviously could care less.

  • Does this have anything to do with anyone not caring about kids with cancer?

    I think you may have mixed up people creating a funny TV show with people stomping the faces of dieing children because I doubt that in your mind you can tell them apart.

  • When you say that one has their head in their ass, that generally means that they are self centred. I am not self centred. I get this joke and do have sympathy for terminally ill people. Does that make my head up my ass? No. It doesn't.

    Please read more nonfiction books and get exposed to reality. Both the very dangerous and the very comfortable. Thats the only way you too are going to see what an idiot you're being.

  • It sure seems to me like you are self centered, by your comments, "why go to all the trouble when they are going to die anyway" and if you truly did have sympathy, you wouldn't make such disgusting comments. I have been exposed to reality thanks, I've gone through hardships and someone in my family has died of cancer. And even if I hadn't, I would have empathy and care, which you obviously don't. Once again, get some empathy, get your head out of your ass and grow up.

  • All your responses just prove to me that you have no idea what I mean.

    Read more books.

  • Books have nothing to do with this, your short response has proven to me you have no counter arguments, as well as your brain capacity and your empathy. Have a nice, self centered life. I'm done conversing with you.

  • i bet kids with cancer find this funny. Its making light of a tough situation. It doesnt ACTUALLY reflect the views of the people who created it.

  • lol

  • lol - hilarious :)

    Seriously, the cost of seinding one dying kid to Disneyland could keep a hundred kids in a refugee camp living another year.

  • Too much controversy. Not enough humor. Poor form Chaser.

  • it's not funny enough really , i don't care however if the chaser wanna be controversial , just as long as their funny

  • Obviously they did not see the consequences

  • ooooooo they got in SHIT for this!!!!!!!

  • Am I the only person who thought this was hilarious?? For fuck sake.. don't watch it if you don't like them!!

  • agreed!

  • we're not. thats why their going off air:)

  • @xTheWorldIsDeceasedx Your not the only one man, all the arseholes are just trying to control the best tv ever!!!! he only makes like 3 "offencive" comments..... which are very funny. so, from everyone with a brain and sense of humour in Australia, FUCK YOU HEAD OF ABC FOR REMOVING THE FUNNYEST SHOW ON EARTH!

  • @xTheWorldIsDeceasedx i agree i thought it was hilarious

  • @xTheWorldIsDeceasedx Yeah I understand why people are pissed, but I couldn't stp laughing

  • i agree with auroagingerkitty

  • I actually don't see whats so wrong with this sketch, yes it was a bit cruel to make dying kids the object of their jokes but c'mon It's called satire!!! I love the fact that they have the guts to cross the line. It wasn't the best thought out sketch that they've done but the reaction by the media was over the top! and they appologised and if you look at their other sketches from their last show they even take the piss out of themselves for it, GO CHASER LOVE IT from everyone in the UK!!

  • @helloground Well it doesn't matter anymore the people who make a big deal out of all of this won't really fit into modern day society

  • hahahaha

  • The reason there is silence is because there is no point in actually replying to your hypocritical rantings. Good day to you sir,

  • It wouldn't of been as bad if he hadn't said the 'they're only gonna die anyway' bit at the end, cos that was a bit much, but the rest was slightly in bad taste but just about passable.

  • ya i know

  • your an idiot

  • You're an IDIOT

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  • y0u fucking retard people in australia thought this was slack one tv show doesnt depict anything they banned it from their website u prick

    i'm sending you a trojan yo faggot enjoy ur computa is FUCCKEEDDD

  • Humour is good for sick people - hopefully a few sick people might see this and have a good laugh.

  • All this outrage over this skit is crap. It seems to me that when you watch someone else being posted by the Chaser that it's perfectly fine to laugh at them but as soon as it targets you or someone close to you it's just inappropriate. Well anyone who does think like that is just a selfish brat who doesn't believe in free speech and wants everything censored.

  • As I have said many times before - it was meant to be so bad that it is good. I loved it - people die, people get sick. It's hard but I agree with LlortnA. And yes I have experienced loved ones being seriously ill.

  • To many people are taking the moral high-ground on this. It's barely offensive at all. If you find death to be such a touchy subject, that's your problem; everyone has to deal with it. I, for one, quite enjoy making a mockery of it, and would rather think upon my lost loved ones with laughter and not sorrow. If this proposition offends you then the feeling is mutual.

  • I love the chasers but this is pretty bad taste.

  • that is soo sad:(

  • woahhh ok yeah too far. the last comment 'when they're only gonna die anyway' was seriously uncalled for.

  • bloody hallarious settle down people it was only a joke:D

  • Freedom of speech - Make your own fucking opinion and dont bash em for making theres you jesus cock suckers

  • not funny, fucking stupid thats to far

  • Love these guys and will still watch them :) Just mabey need to watch how far they go thats all.

  • theese guys are funny, but this skit isn't, there just being pig headed nobbs

  • Thats Fucking sick.. Wayyy to Far

  • You can NEVER go too far.

  • Yes, You can. That's just something you don't joke about.

  • I agree

    And you are a very interesting person

  • i'm not a stick i'm whats his face. ;) thanks

  • When you go through all of those contradictions in your life you get a very uniqu view on life

  • and i am not closed to violence, just saying i'm relieved to see rty has a hole in his subjectively oriented worldview.

  • I suppose

    Both of my parents are psychiatric nurses that have studied medicine for over a decade and passed on their moral grey, like the positive aspects to euthenasia.

    Ive experienced the death and dementia of two of my grand parents

    I just don't see the point in unececary violence. I got hurt badlyand i wisened up.

    But i've still continued working on karate for years after that hapened.

    I'm an atheist yet i go to a christian school that is practically pentacostal.

    When you

  • this skit was epic win

  • Ive got a book called the devils dictionary.

    Its written by an funny athiest with a very dry sense of humor and has funy definitions to normal words

  • think i saw it when i was younger, was it an athiests dictionary?

  • yep, gets pretty opinionated at spots, but is funny

  • If i was god i would kill these kids too. they are damn ugly.

  • handlewithoutcare, you're going to win an oscar for comedic genius and be a controversial super anti hero and make lots of ugly spin offs and then oneday you might even be the host of late show.

  • THeres a guy called arrogant athiest that i ha a go at stiring up. The athiests fight moe than the religious

  • there's a book shop that doesn't sell any religious material but they sell an athiests dictionary. i said that is a belief too, and he said that's why they got the book called 'i don't believe in athiesm', too. i said at least you contradict your faiths honestly.

  • : )

  • Wow mindhacked, you got a lot of go in you, i don't remember how long ago i left here

    anyway, I've lost track, where we up to

  • THE kids depicted deserve die. sucked in. lol

  • You think thats so daring or smart to say that, Well regardless if you fear your own immortality or not, i would take great enjoyment in torturing you, and cutting small pieces of your body and feeding them to you, all be it, while your screaming for mercy, then i would like to see your reaction to death, You are one loose member of society that would never had the courage to say somthing like that aloud becuase it would most likey be the last thing you ever mutter out of your hatfull mouth,

  • wow thats harsh, i think

    Now whee we up to?

  • handlewithoutcare that's the general centre of emotional gravity most of these guys are at so don't feel alone or ashamed alright.

  • and (because I'm not afraid to admit fault) I didn't think replies to older messages went straight to page 1...

  • wooooow somebody found the thesaurus button!

  • The chasers are allways going to be contriversial and getting worked up abou t solves nothing. Except a bit of entertainment.

  • and possibly the shows cancellation or re formation on a ground it can stand on.

  • I won't support any opinion, only the ones i agree with. The make a with foundation does good work and so does the chasers. But they stepped out of cruel humor to cruelty. I read this whole debate, and you keep trying to turn it into an argument. Irrationallity does not accomplish anything and i respect your views.

  • excuse me, it accomplishes excuses galore...:)

    you appear to have a more reasonable way of thinking and an intuitive sensitivity. in the madness and apeishness of the current context.

  • ...lol

  • no class

  • sorry chaser's

    when they're good they're good

    but some of the skits such as this one aren't even funny

    its just sad, this won't stop me from watching it yet, but if crap like this continues, they're gonna lose one more viewer

  • watch this crap show dissapear,about time,wouldnt be funny if one of their kids had a terminal illness,the "make a wish foundation"are getting a donation from me,i urge everyone else to do the same.

  • actors yea?

  • haha it's funny because my friend knows the kid that said "i wanna meet zac efron"

    it's not funny how they taunt them but the actually idea was lol

  • The sick kids look too real.

  • People. it was only a skit, they were not laughing AT the sick kids.

    And we live in Australia, not North Korea, so why should we censor "" offensive"" matirial?. If you dont like it, dont watch it.

  • Which knob thought up the idea of making jokes about dieing kids?  - what a numb nut !!

  • Yeah, we don't need jokes about them, they're already hilarious on their own!

  • I have no idea who those people are but I hope they have better gramatical skills.

  • I concur.

    Half of these idiots wouldn't understand the reasoning behind the skit, as it is.

  • Immoral is another one of those subjective terms, used almost solely by uptight, easily offended people. Plenty of people love the Chaser's as evidenced by their high ratings of late.

  • LMAO The kids were actors, I can't believe people actually have to be told that.

  • LMAO

    if theres one thing i appreciate about chasers, it's their courage to take on something edgy and make it hilarious

  • or maybe they took on something genuine and made it edgy and / or hilarious?

  • They did more than make it funny. They offended people, people such as yourself who obviously need to be offended so you can get some thicker skin. This is why breaking taboos is a positive thing.

  • by your logic everything is beyond critique for going beyond limits that are more than taste, and that is clearly hypocrisy given the show / war, and given that my comments appear to be offending it at least some of you more than the show did me!!

  • Yes, precisely. Because taste is subjective. If I were to criticise the show on taste I would express it as an opinion because I know damn well other people's opinions are just as valid as mine.

    This is the very reason you can't justifiably call for a show (or anything else) to be censored because that denies the show to other people who probably have a different opinion about it.

    Also I can't really see how I was hypocritical given that my position is essentially live and let live.

  • i'm not talking about as mere an argument as the ordinary opinion wars on taste, which super hero goes highest, who rules heroes or anti heroes lol maybe you need an example of something else that has been aired on tv that goes beyond that?? can you think of nothing that might

  • You mean anything offensive enough to warrant censorship? No I can't. In fact I can't even imagine anything in that category.

  • then you are simply a class of being that doesn't understand, and doesn't feel, in any great depth. bringing up extreme examples only darkens things more, but if you are pro everything (except me and anyone against you of course) then you don't need to reach far to imagine what you are.

  • Not true, I get offended by people that use ad hominem arguments, believe in things without any evidence and advocate censorship to name a few (no offence intended). But I would never wish them censored. If I wished that (and if I could achieve it) then I would be opening up my own opinions to be censored if anyone else had the power to.

    You've just got to ask yourself who you would trust to tell you what you are and are not allowed to watch. I sure can't think of anyone. Can you?

  • This is smart comedy, all good comedy pushes the barriers a bit, all the do-gooders & PC attention seeking arseholes make me sick! Just because you don't like this does not give you the right to spout crap, let those of us enjoy it while you spank off over Rove or Neighbours...

  • hubbo your geniuses are moral midgets and so are you,  and neighbours kicks chasers ass fer sure man.

  • Again, judging people by their morals... your OPINION of their morals.

    Like it or not, the subject of the skit could have been argued as a serious point (e.g. Surely the money spent on granting terminal kids' wishes would be better spent on finding cures for the very diseases they are dying of), but that's not what they were doing, they just made a joke about it.

  • i think you're defense system is making itself believe that because you love chasers so much. give it up, they had some golden moments, now they shouldn't be worthy of human redemption.

  • You completely avoided the point there, so i'll say it again.

    rty778 (11 hours ago)

    [You are] judging people by their morals... your OPINION of their morals.

    Also i'm not a huge fan of the show. I don't watch it regularly but I love the controversy they create. I'll defend anyone's opinion or expression and their right to it, regardless of what it's about.

  • Better to be a moral midget than a mental midget-LOSER!

  • LOSER, is that your signature?  because you're neither intelligent or compassionate, of course!

  • Nice come back! I suppose you were up all night thinking of that one? Sorry if this skit offends you, really I mean that, but I found this funny, that does not mean I lack compassion, all this pc mass morality is so fake, it seems everyone is seeking to be offended or upset just to be seen to be doing so, I enjoy this kind of humour and so do a LOT of others, try to be a little more open-minded rather than condemning people.

  • Hear, hear!

  • are you kidding, i don't remember you in the mass of angry tirades against my condemnation which everybody falls remarkably flat on opposing.

    i hope you'll try to be a little more open minded to other points of view and find a new one yourself? i'm so bloody optimistic about that.

  • Here's the problem; you're promoting censorship, which means sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong, and taking away the rights of others because of your own personal beliefs. No matter what, you have a right to ignore the programming. We can't access it at all if people like you have it censored.

  • yes i promote censorship, but as a general rule the censors are suspect themselves, right? that what you're so cynical about, right. but i am just one of those who happen to be right, all the time.

  • There should be no censorship. You have no idea what you are talking about, and from the looks of things have just trolled me very, very well.

  • I wish the kids get cured and be at your hospital bedside !!!!!! I hate u morons.

  • Lolwut @ your comment.

  • "Well I tell you what, how bout you have this nice stick instead" lol

  • bye chaser, it has been taken off for two weeks as the abc evaluates it's filtering procedure.

    my guess is the show will be shrunk to below human size and standard, disregarded and left, if not taken off air, and they will be wiped from our memory. if they don't improve themselves as humans.

  • So what? If they get kicked off the ABC they'll just move to the SBS where nothing is sacred. It's hardly surprising that a government funded station got the shits with them given how nosy and procensorship the prime minister is.

  • Ok firstly I really don't care about who gets offended fuck em BUT I have to admit this was really in poor taste.

    But I guess it's just like with Eminem or anything else that's controversial... if you don't like it TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING STATION AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!

    Is anyone with me? I'm not saying it's not in poor taste but shut the fuck up and watch something else, it's not like they're showing a porno or something.

    FUck... Chaser in poor taste, what else is new.

  • again "poor taste" is looking at things from a completely relativistic amoral subjective point of view, it's worse than that or i wouldn't yawn, bother.

  • the negative "out rage" toward negative criticism is highly humorous from my point of view if any one is interested in a subjective taste in comedy.

  • Exactly, this is not a communist country, they are not shoving it down our throat, if you don't like it, don't watch it.

    simple.

  • if you don't like it dont watch it? were you caught too, jester.

    the fact is this isn't about if i like it, if it's in my good taste, as a mere entertainment. that you guys keep arguing that shows your stupidity.

  • God Bless that chasers for a refreshing comedy that can take it to the emotional witch doctors of our age:

    1. Self-righteous Charities

    2. The holier-than-thou post-Holocaust jewry

    Please chasers your next target:

    3. The Stolen generation myth

    4. Climate change

    Chaser you are our gift of comic liberty!

  • Fuckin' spot on.

  • comedy is subjective, some people thought it was tastless, some pople thought it was the best thing on the episode.

    but what is REALLY FUCKING WEAK is that the ABC allowed this to be aired, they said 'yep, got no problem, air it' and the FUCKING SECOND they got any pressure from it they ran like fucking dogs with tails in between their legs. If your going to nationaly broadcast it, get ready to stand behind it you fucking pricks!

  • what isn't subjective is inter-subjective, ie involving others. what isn't subjective is a dying child.