Thursday 8 January 2009

The end of culture?


I know I shouldn't be a cultural snob, but the following extract from Celebrity Big Brother, on the British TV station Channel 4, is so dire I can't decide whether the sheer awfulness of what follows is a brilliant piece of popularist broadcasting, or the end of threshold standards of quality as we know it.

Watch it and weep. Or laugh. Possibly both.
Click here.


5 comments:

Don said...

Anytime anyone can evoke an "end of culture" comment, they have achieved something. (Whether that's a good thing or not, I'm not so sure.)

Sacha van Straten said...

Indeed! The fact I watched the clip and wrote about it makes me complicit in some way. Damn.

AliCrees said...

Bring on Big Bro,
COOLIO TO WIN :)
Sorry to be the sterotypical annoying big brother fan!
Big Brother is like marmite,
'You either love it or hate it.'

Sacha van Straten said...

I have to say I think he's more Foolio than Coolio.

Not my cup of tea at all.

AliCrees said...

haha 'foolio'!