It's just not fucking funny.

Hey,

Much has been said about BBC Three. It's apparent immunity from the major cuts happening at the moment, seemingly at the expense of others such as BBC 6Music has made it as an easy victim to throw abuse at. "Snog, Marry, Avoid?"? Oh, we the intellects are far superior to that nonsense. "Hotter than my Daughter"? I'd rather watch a Glee mash-up.

Us "BBC Four" types find it too easy to criticise the decisions of the powers that be to continue the funding of this TV station, and it's - at times - mind-numbing content. Put on "Newswipe" or a program featuring Marcus Brigstocke and we are can feel better. We can experience intellectual snobbery.

I was actually going to spend today defending the BBC's backing of BBC Three which, truth be told, would not of been as difficult as you would think. BBC Three, for it's many faults, has produced some excellent comedy amongst the awful. For every "HTMD" there is backing of "The Mighty Boosh" from radio to television so successfully. Same could be said of "Little Britain". Some of my favourite comedies from the USA are shown on BBC Three, also.

Yet yesterday changed my mind. Whilst browsing the delights of iPlayer (in my opinion, the BBC's best asset) I came across the program titled "Tourettes: I Swear Can't Help It". It's a show which follows two sufferers of the illness, documenting their daily struggle.

Although the program is done on the most part quite tastefully, it does contain scenes that some would snigger at, but this program was commissioned for BBC Three, the channel's station for comedy and light-hearted program. My concern is that the show was commissioned not to raise awareness of the disease (which has 300,000 sufferers in the UK) but for a cheap laugh at someone else's expense. And that is just not right. The young boy who has a form of tourettes which means he constantly screams is just not funny at all. Nor should it be.

DC x