GeekLawyer’s Blog

One tends to think of Kiwis as possessing the Aussie’s distaste for pomposity but done with more class (not hard of course - Juxtajazz aside). Maybe not: the NZ Parliament has just passed a law saying that you can’t parody or mock them without risking being a compulsory guest of the state.

Apparently, like our own dear Parliament, if a Taiwanese style punch-up starts on the floor of the house cameras must focus on the Speaker. Which Geeklawyer thinks is a little odd. Wouldn’t it be more interesting to focus on the fight? Or is he, like the Kiwis, not getting the full picture? It would certainly make our own Parliament Channel much more interesting: make a pit in the floor of the House cover it in sand and let Brown and Cameron fight in the style of Roman Retiarii and Paegniarii (erm, right plural?). One presumes they are worried about their dignity and it would clearly never do for the punters to see their elected overlords eating lollipops or giving each other the Agincourt salute.

Ah! The solution for TV companies is obvious.

Get sponsoring companies to pay dim actors a lot of money to speak someone else lines and film it. Oh, wait …