Madeleine McCann, Peter Mandelson And Russell Brand

MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann , Kate McCann and Gerry McCann

DAILY TELEGRAPH: “The public is sick of this heartless comedy”

Dominic Cavendish wonders how he can tie in Russell Brand, and Jonathan Ross with Our Maddie.

Our Maddie appears in most stories, having been linked to films, books, TV, murdered holidaymakers, Shameless families and games…

Now that Russell Brand has resigned from his Radio 2 programme and Jonathan Ross remains suspended for crassness beyond the call of duty, the pair will have plenty of time to watch re-runs of Fawlty Towers.

They do. Although what odds Brand returning with a better show on an independent radio station?

Plenty of time to remind themselves just why Andrew Sachs - who stooped to conquer our affections as Manuel - is held in such protective esteem by the public, more than three decades after Fawlty Towers first aired. And maybe they’ll begin to wonder along with the rest of us: what on earth happened to comedy in this country?

Fair point. Comedy in this country come sunder two heading: a) Unfunny; b) Spiteful.

As a comedy critic, I often encounter material on the stand-up circuit that leaves me stunned by its inhuman coldness, its relish for tawdry detail, its sheer nastiness. “Rape” has become a comedy word; paedophilia is a regular staple.

Ready…

I’ll never forget being told by one household-name comic that he was dying for Madeleine McCann to be found because he had the perfect joke ready for the occasion.

Bingo!

There have, of course, been Madeleine McCann jokes. Ther are sick jokes, plodding jokes and one pretty funny joke.

This week Private Eye told an Our Maddie joke. And it was, well, pretty funny. That’s it on the left.

Thanks to readers Tom Knight for sending it in.

A child is missing, but she keep turning up in all the big news stories…

The orginal post went down: we were hacked!!

Anorak

Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

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brandon flours Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am

first ????

Anorak Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:13 am

Or 35th - the original post went down. i think we were hacked. investigating…

chenier Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:18 am

What, all my pretty chicks?

With apologies to Shakespeare…

coolandcalm Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am

Well well Anorak, hacked? by which one of the above? Most are dead so unless there was divine intervention from above (or below) my money’s on Mugabe.

Anorak Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am

Machete!

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am

This thread’s earlier posts, now missing, en bloc, must have rattled a big cage.

Btw, brandon, I was “Foist” in the original, erumm…. unamended…Thread.

Petronius Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am

Hacked by hacks who moonlight as hackers?

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:40 am

Let’s needle the alleged “Hackers” again.

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/10/leonors-lawyer-received-money-from.html

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:43 am

And again, rattle rattle cagey :

October 30, 2008
Source: Jornal de Notícias, 30.10.2008..by Marisa Rodrigues..Translated by astro.

“Guard says that director suggested changing report - Jornal de Notícias

A prison guard says that Leonor mentioned dizziness and a fall at the PJ in Faro

The director of Odemira prison “suggested” to a former chief of the prison guards that he should change the report that he wrote when Leonor Cipriano returned from the Polícia Judiciária in Faro with “red marks” on her face.

The revelation came as a surprise for everyone who yesterday watched the second session of the trial of five PJ elements who investigated the disappearance of Joana. The lawyer for four of the arguidos announced that he is filing a criminal complaint against Ana Maria Calado. “These are serious suspicions that have to be investigated”, António Pragal Colaço said when he was leaving the Court in Faro.

António Maia, who was heard as a witness, said that it was him who was on duty when Leonor returned to the prison on the 15th of October after the interrogation at the PJ that prompted the complaint which is now on trial. In the document, the prison guard wrote what Joana’s mother reported to him – that she fell off the stairs at the Judiciária in Faro due to “dizziness that she experienced because she had spent several hours without eating”. At that time, the prison’s director, Ana Maria Calado, was on vacation.

The revelation appeared when, after some vague replies like “I don’t remember” and “I can’t tell exactly”, the witness was being questioned by António Cabrita, Gonçalo Amaral’s lawyer. “After two weeks, when Leonor’s marks were much more visible, the director suggested that I should change the report in the part that referred to the dizziness”, he explained. A suggestion which the man, who now works at the prison in Silves, did not accept.

“Do you find this correct? Do you think that she fell down the stairs? Don’t you think that she was tortured?”, Ana Maria Calado asked him. “If you wanted to change the report, would she have given permission?”, the presiding judge asked. António Maia replied “yes”.

The prison guard further stated that he had been alerted to the “suicidal tendencies” of Joana’s mother, who was “under closer surveillance and protected by the director, who gave her cigarettes and spent hours with her in her office”. On one occasion, he referred, Leonor took out her shoelaces, which were immediately confiscated by a guard who feared that she might use them to hang herself.

The afternoon was further marked by a sudden remembrance. After stating that she could not remember who assaulted her during the first session [of the trial], Leonor delivered a piece of paper with the names of the five arguidos to the presiding judge yesterday. “The other day I was nervous, but a news piece came on tv with my husband (Leandro) saying that he saw Gonçalo Amaral beating and I remembered. The names of the others I took from documents that I have in prison”, she said, making the public that was completely filling the room burst into laughter”

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am

I rather was taken by this part of the above report :

“The names of the others I took from documents that I have in prison”, she said, making the public that was completely filling the room burst into laughter”

Was this the boastful Team McCann’s “Trump Card” ?

Oh deary deary me.
Pardon me while I laugh out loudly.

Watcher Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Here’s some back:-

Watcher Says:

October 30th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Who is madeleien McCann?

Matt. Says:

October 30th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Watcher Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 7:40 am

Probably a typo.

Should be M.

Or Margaret.

brandon flours Says:

October 30th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Matt

I posted a link but its in the spammer

October 30th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Not the capital Numpty - the spelling.

October 30th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Watcher Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 7:51 am

Your first post re the matter was a tad ambigious if that is the case.

October 30th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I’ll do a coco! It’s still there lalalalalalalalalalala, spelt wrong, aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggg.

October 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Or a Jo - it’s in the heading - jajajajajajajajajajajajajaja!

October 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Or a Doris - this proovs it - it’s all going on behind the seenss - any minute now wheel get a brake throo.

October 30th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Or an Artemis

Your post is in moderation. It is not funny or clever to take the piss out of either our spelling or other posters. You are not amusing and a waste of band width.

October 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am
OK - Joke over - they’ve corrected the spelling. Now they’ll remove all posts referring to it. Jajajajajajajajajaja, lalalalalalalalal, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhh.

Anorak Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:11 am

A child is missing. And remains the only fact.

But what of the jokes?

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:13 am

Don’t be so self-centred and only repost the posts you were quoted on.

Post all of the rest too.

As you seem to have found the missing… link…sorry..Thread.

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:18 am

I think it also is a fact that Auntie Phil told a few porkies.

Matt. Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am

And it is a fact that Dr G P said that he entered the apartment using a key.

And it is also a fact that Dr G P said that he entered the apartment without
using a key.

Both statements, to the PJ, and recorded in the Files, at different interviews,
of course.

Karen Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:27 am

I’m in mourning today - Russell’s had to quit (according to one of my fellow students he deserves it because made a Madeleine McCann joke??? I never heard it - wouldn’t we have known!!! ), Friday Night With Jonathan Ross is gone & David Tennant just quit as the Doctor.