{"id":1850299,"date":"2023-02-17T03:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850299"},"modified":"2023-02-17T03:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:19:57","slug":"bbcs-cunk-on-earth-mockumentary-is-brilliantly-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbcs-cunk-on-earth-mockumentary-is-brilliantly-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC\u2019s \u2018Cunk On Earth\u2019 Mockumentary Is Brilliantly Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbcs-cunk-on-earth-mockumentary-is-brilliantly-stupid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cWas early man similar to us. I mean, was he made out of the same sort of meat that we are? Did he have a brand name like \u2018beef\u2019 or \u2018pork\u2019?\u201d This is the first question Philomena, our guide to human civilization poses to a slew of ignorant experts. Her target in this instance is an archaeologist and author of \u201cThe Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art,\u201d It is a great thing to take it all in stride \u201cAll we have is bones, of course, and they\u2019re exactly the same as our bones,\u201d He continues on, he says. It\u2019s a flabbergasting scene, sheer idiocy played with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the opening salvo of the one mockumetary to rule them all: \u201cCunk on Earth,\u201d Charlie Brooker created a BBC production of five episodes that he produced (perhaps to pay him for his execrable). \u201cTwilight Zone\u201dThe -wannabe series \u201cBlack Mirror\u201dIt was recently added to Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>Miss Cunk has been portrayed by Diane Morgan, an English actress for over a decade. She is confident and completely ignorant about almost everything. With supreme self-confidence, she takes her audience, episode by episode, through the defining moments of civilization, from the invention of writing to the moon landing, all the while displaying a brash certitude that doesn\u2019t bother about such trifles as facts. Philomena Cunk alone slays the culture war urgency by showing that there is no common culture. And she\u2019s hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long time since there were great cross-cultural exchanges between British culture and American culture. \u201cSouth Park\u201d Oder \u201cMonty Python.\u201d What \u201cCunk on Earth\u201d It achieves something different. It tears down the notion that there is anything like a shared Western culture anymore \u2014 or even a possibility of any shared human culture. <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the episode \u201cMecha-Streisand,\u201d In the first season \u201cSouth Park,\u201d It combines Japanese soft-pop with bad American pop. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaiju\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kaiju<\/a> flicks, and English new-wave music, all in a crashing d\u00e9nouement complete with toppled skyscrapers. It\u2019s great fun, making mockery of these strands of human artistry (though musician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Smith_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Smith<\/a> Does come across as the hero. But it\u2019s played for mere comedy. The implications of what it\u2019s saying aren\u2019t clear, if there are any at all.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cCunk\u201d Shows its hand from the start: \u201cAncient people invented currency to make life on Earth easier, but in doing so we inadvertently invented capitalism, which is gonna kill everyone. Sorry, that\u2019s not a question. It\u2019s just something I read on Twitter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cunk makes her statement. Cunk blinks once as her would-be interlocutor is a professor of ancient Middle Eastern History. Because there is no way to meet minds, there is no communication. You have to wonder if Cunk has a mind, properly speaking \u2014 a cultivated ground of thought and reason, fructified by past wisdom. Well, you don\u2019t really \u2014 she doesn\u2019t. What\u2019s funny about it is that the show comes right out and shows us what it\u2019s doing. History as a concept is now reduced to the noise of social networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of human culture, as laid out by &#8216;Cunk on Earth,&#8217; is the desire to talk about something more cheerful, or maybe to skip talking altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1677,"featured_media":1850302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[18889,18891,18890,8437,18888,7119],"class_list":["post-1850299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cunk","tag-bbcs","tag-brilliantly","tag-earth","tag-mockumentary","tag-stupid"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}