Channel Five's new sitcom is about prostitution. You know the funniest part? The women all love their work.
When it comes to sitcoms, some situations are inherently funnier than others. Snobbish radio shrink lives with feisty working-class father and difficult dog? Comedy gold. Manic hotelier with clumsy Spanish sidekick enrages everyone in his path? A no-brainer. How about this one, then? In an age of soaring sex tourism, amid reports that one in 10 British men has visited a prostitute and stories of sex worker "slave auctions" in the arrival lounges of British airports, how about creating a sitcom set in a suburban British brothel?
It's the new comedy show from Channel Five, it begins in a couple of weeks, and it's surely comedy genius! Four female characters, all prostitutes, and all - naturally, this being a comedy - happy hookers, hoofing it up and uttering deathless quips about blowjobs. There's Maureen, the ageing madame, who offers such comedy lines as "less gabble, more gobble" and whose catchphrase - hilariously - is, "But I'm only 27!" There's Kate, the brainy one, who is working in the sex trade to pay off her student loans, and Hayley, the extremely thick one (played by lads' mag favourite Jodi Albert) who is working as a prostitute to pay for ... heroin? No. Crack? No. You guessed it: her shoe collection!
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